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-striped MinerDeep Cut85points
- White-tailed Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-tentacle Japanese aeolisDeep Cut85points
- White-tipped Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-tipped nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- White-wedged Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- White-winged DialictusDeep Cut85points
- White-winged PerditaDeep Cut85points
- white-winged sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- White-zoned furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Whitebarred tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Whitebelly rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Whiteblotched scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Whitecross jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Whiteface waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Whitefin chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Whitenose scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Whitespot ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Whitespotted freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Whitespotted rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Whitespotted whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Whitetail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Whitley's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Whorled tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Wickerwork coneDeep Cut85points
- Wide stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Wide-faced antDeep Cut85points
- Wide-jawed bull antDeep Cut85points
- Wide-legged Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Wide-mesh sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Wide-mouthed Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Wide-striped furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Wide-striped Painted-Dark beeDeep Cut85points
- Wide-striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Widenose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Widenosed chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Widow rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Widow YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Wild star sea penDeep Cut85points
- Wilke's mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Willemoes's white sea penDeep Cut85points
- Williams anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Williston's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Willow flower miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Willow Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Willowherb leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Willows' AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Willughby's leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Wilmatte Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Wilmatte's Bumble BeeDeep 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.