Krillion Recorded answers
6,682 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the problem from mechanism outward rather than from memory. Anything that injects venom through a purpose-built structure belongs on the list: a puncturing tail, a modified egg-laying organ, a harpoon-like tooth, a fired cell, a barbed spine. Then sweep habitats systematically, through soil and leaf litter, nests and burrows, reefs and tide pools, open water and sandy bottoms, because the answer pool is far wider than the familiar garden offenders. Once you have a few safe generic ideas, push toward properly named species, since scoring favours precision. Keep a mental note of which branches you have already mined so you do not circle back, and write candidates in clusters: if one member of a group qualifies, its relatives probably do too.
Get a hint
Start with the body part that does the damage: a hollow spine, a barbed tail or a cell that fires on contact narrows the field far faster than habitat or diet ever will.
A little more
Size tells you nothing here, because the same defensive trick turns up in colonial organisms fixed to the seabed and in winged foragers that visit flowers, so scan several distant branches of the tree of life.
One step further
Long lists of this kind reward the obscure end of the catalogue: properly named species and regional forms beat the plain everyday word, so a half-forgotten binomial will usually outscore the first thing you thought of.
Reveal answers 6,682
- Twinspot LionfishDeep Cut85points
- Twisted-horned Mini-diggerDeep Cut85points
- Two coloured mimic waspDeep Cut85points
- Two Moons beewolfDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Two-banded NomadDeep Cut85points
- Two-barred rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Two-celled MinerDeep Cut85points
- Two-celled Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Two-colored orange spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Two-form bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Two-girdled digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Two-lined Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Two-speckled cuckoo spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Two-spined Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Two-spined trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted NomadDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Two-tone cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Two-toned Caterpillar Parasite WaspDeep Cut85points
- Twotone tree antDeep Cut85points
- Tyde's sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Tyler's Striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Typhon ConeDeep Cut85points
- Typical aphid waspDeep Cut85points
- Tyson's big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Ukrainian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Ulke's Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella corallimorpharianDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Unadorned Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Unadorned sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Unarmed Green-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Unarmed hermaphroditic anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Unarmed Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Unbranched hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Underground millipede muncher antDeep Cut85points
- Undertaker NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Unequal Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Unique Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- University NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Unpolished AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Unpolished Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Unstable Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Unusual Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Upper Amazon raspy freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is unusually flat. Of 6,671 recorded answers, 6,650 cleared sixty points, so the whole spread between a middling reply and the best one is twenty-five points, and only a single entry, Wallace's Giant Bee, reached the maximum of 100. That lone outlier says less about taxonomy than about duplication: the scoring pays for being the only person in the room to think of something, not for thinking of a different category. The enormous 85-point band, which includes Abbas Cone, Abbott's Cone, Acacia ant and Achilles' scorpion among thousands of others, is where careful, specific naming lands. Those are full species names, often obscure regional or taxonomic forms, and they beat the everyday word a casual player types first. The 243 answers stuck at 60 are presumably the shortest, most generic or most heavily repeated submissions that still satisfied the criterion. Correctness buys entry into the pack; precision lifts you clear of it; genuine rarity is worth one tier more.