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
- White sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- White Shouldered Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- White spotted cerberillaDeep Cut85points
- White stickhydroidDeep Cut85points
- White stinging anemoneDeep Cut85points
- White tipped tentacle sea slugDeep Cut85points
- White-backed Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-banded Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied MasonDeep Cut85points
- White-bellied mining beeDeep Cut85points
- White-blotched river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- White-bordered Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- White-cheeked CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- White-clothed LonghornDeep Cut85points
- White-crust cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- White-edge SlugDeep Cut85points
- White-edge tussock caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- White-edged nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- White-edged rockfishDeep Cut85points
- White-faced Brown Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- White-faced Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-footed Blue banded BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-footed furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- White-footed green furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- White-footed Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-fronted Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- White-haired beewolfDeep Cut85points
- White-haired Golden Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-haired miner beeDeep Cut85points
- White-headed Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-jawed yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- White-lined cratenaDeep Cut85points
- White-lined lionfishDeep Cut85points
- White-lipped Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-lipped yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- White-marked Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-marked tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- White-rimmed stingrayDeep Cut85points
- White-sided Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-sided Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-speckled rockfishDeep Cut85points
- White-spot chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- White-spotted Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-spotted Nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- White-spotted ratfishDeep Cut85points
- White-spotted spinefootDeep Cut85points
- White-spotted stingareeDeep Cut85points
- White-spotted tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- White-stemmed acacia moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- White-striped LonghornDeep 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.