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
- VelvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Velvety club coralDeep Cut85points
- Venezuela round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Venus flytrap anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Venus flytrap sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Venus sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Venus star club coralDeep Cut85points
- Veracruz Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Verbesina Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Vermiculate RabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Vermiculate river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Vermiculated spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Vermilion rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Vernal colletes beeDeep Cut85points
- Vernal MinerDeep Cut85points
- Vernal pool miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Vernon cuckoo nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Verrill's cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Verrill's encrusting cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Verrill's lump coralDeep Cut85points
- Versicoloured LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Versluys's tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Vertical Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Vertical potter waspDeep Cut85points
- Very Smooth Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Very Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Vestal Cuckoo Bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Vested LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Vexillum coneDeep Cut85points
- Vic Wee's coneDeep Cut85points
- Vice Admiral ConeDeep Cut85points
- Victoria Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Vidua coneDeep Cut85points
- Viereck's DialictusDeep Cut85points
- Viereck's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Vietnam forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Vietnamese zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Viguiera Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Villepin's coneDeep Cut85points
- Violaceous Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Violaceous Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Violet carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Violet ConeDeep Cut85points
- Violet jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Violet MinerDeep Cut85points
- Violet sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Violet stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Violet zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Violet-mouth ConeDeep Cut85points
- Violet-spotted anemoneDeep 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.