Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Black bulldog antDeep Cut85points
- Black burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Black bush hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Black Chinese honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Black cockroach hunterDeep Cut85points
- Black cockroach waspDeep Cut85points
- Black cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Black cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Black devil stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Black droptail antDeep Cut85points
- Black dwarf honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Black fan-shaped hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Black flower waspDeep Cut85points
- Black Forest-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Black hag antDeep Cut85points
- Black Hairy-WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Black headed velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Black Hover WaspDeep Cut85points
- Black hunting waspDeep Cut85points
- Black jumper antDeep Cut85points
- Black Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Black Mud BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black Mud WaspDeep Cut85points
- Black Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Black rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Black ram-horned antDeep Cut85points
- Black reed waspDeep Cut85points
- Black rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Black rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Black rugged ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Black scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Black Sea jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Black sea nettleDeep Cut85points
- Black sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Black Shield HornetDeep Cut85points
- Black ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Black slender antDeep Cut85points
- Black Slip WaspDeep Cut85points
- Black Slug Cup Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Black spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Black Spot Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Black stinging hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Black sun coralDeep Cut85points
- Black V Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Black wire coralDeep Cut85points
- Black wood borer waspDeep Cut85points
- Black WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-gray Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-green CorynuraDeep 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.