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
- Upside-down jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Urashima coneDeep Cut85points
- Urbane Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Urticating AnthelidDeep Cut85points
- Ushi stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Ussuri Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Utah Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Utah Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Utah Wool-carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Vachal's MinerDeep Cut85points
- Vaejovid scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Vailati's small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Valdivian soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Valiant Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Valley Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Valley of Fire Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Van Duzee's Mountain-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Van Dyke's bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Van Syoc's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Vancouver anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Vancouver Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Variable AnthelidDeep Cut85points
- Variable big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Variable cuckoo bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Variable Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Variable MinerDeep Cut85points
- Variable nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Variable Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Variable Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Variable soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Variable Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Armored-Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Variegated lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Variegated paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Reed beeDeep Cut85points
- Variegated sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Variegated spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Variegated tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Variegated VapourerDeep Cut85points
- Varius coneDeep Cut85points
- Vase-cell mud-dauber waspDeep Cut85points
- Veal coneDeep Cut85points
- Vecht's Armoured Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Veiled medusaDeep Cut85points
- Veiled SlugDeep Cut85points
- Veined MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Velda Pine MothDeep Cut85points
- Velvet branch coralDeep Cut85points
- Velvet RockfishDeep 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.