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
- Western long-spined sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Western Morning Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Western queen ant kidnapperDeep Cut85points
- Western red scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Western red-legged miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Western red-tailed spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Western Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Western sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Western scaly miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Western scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Western sheep mothDeep Cut85points
- Western stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Western Thistle Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Western tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Western White-cheeked Hairy-Cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Western wood scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Western YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Westwood's antDeep Cut85points
- Westwood's pronged-nomiaDeep Cut85points
- Weygoldt's rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Weyrauch's striped-sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Wheeler's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Whining Shaggy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Whip black coralDeep Cut85points
- whip fanDeep Cut85points
- Whip stingrayDeep Cut85points
- WhiprayDeep Cut85points
- Whiptail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Whiskery scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- White AcroporaDeep Cut85points
- White aeolidDeep Cut85points
- White AeolisDeep Cut85points
- White anemoneDeep Cut85points
- White bottlebrush hydroidDeep Cut85points
- White burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- White cedar moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- White Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- white club coralDeep Cut85points
- White cluster anemoneDeep Cut85points
- White Combed-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- White Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- White disc soft coralDeep Cut85points
- White encrusting soft coralDeep Cut85points
- White eye sea sprayDeep Cut85points
- White Flannel MothDeep Cut85points
- White horny coralDeep Cut85points
- White hydroidDeep Cut85points
- White mouthed digger waspDeep Cut85points
- White Sands sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- White satin moth caterpillarDeep 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.