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
- Violet-winged mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Viper's Bugloss Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Virgate rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Virgin coneDeep Cut85points
- Virgin River Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Virgin River Twilight BeeDeep Cut85points
- Virginia blue-black spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Virginia Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Viridescent MinerDeep Cut85points
- Viridis aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Vista big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Vivid SlugDeep Cut85points
- Volatile Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Volcano Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Volcano YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Volitan lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Voluminous coneDeep Cut85points
- Volusia Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Vorhies' scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Vrijenhoek's NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Vulcan MinerDeep Cut85points
- W-labrum MinerDeep Cut85points
- W-marked miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Wafic's eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Wagenaar's False PlexauraDeep Cut85points
- Wain's Armoured Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Waite's chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Walden’s Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Walking anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Walking dendroDeep Cut85points
- Walking jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Wall mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Wall Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Wallace's freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Walley's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Walnut Gulch scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Walsh's AnthophoraDeep Cut85points
- Wandering anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Wandering CentrisDeep Cut85points
- Wandering Combed-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Waratah anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Waroon cloak-and-dagger beeDeep Cut85points
- Waroona Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Warrior waspDeep Cut85points
- Warty baeolidiaDeep Cut85points
- Warty corallimorphDeep Cut85points
- Warty corallimorpharianDeep Cut85points
- Warty jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Warty sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Warty sea rodDeep 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.