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
- Windowed CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Wine red aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Wine-glass hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Wing's black coralDeep Cut85points
- Winged box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Wingfin stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Winnow antDeep Cut85points
- Wire coralDeep Cut85points
- Wiry hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Wispy waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Wollaston's Mini-MinerDeep Cut85points
- Wood scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Wood-carving leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Wood-nesting BeeDeep Cut85points
- Wood's brown coneDeep Cut85points
- Woodborer BeeDeep Cut85points
- Woodland big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Woodland ectemniusDeep Cut85points
- Woodland red antDeep Cut85points
- Woodlouse antDeep Cut85points
- Woodmoerer CarpenterbeeDeep Cut85points
- Wool carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Woolly antDeep Cut85points
- Woolly CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Woolly Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Woolly Wall BeeDeep Cut85points
- Woollystar Evening BeeDeep Cut85points
- Worm anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Worm coralDeep Cut85points
- Worm-tongued Shaggy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Wormy anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Worthy LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Wrenched monkey caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Wrinkle coralDeep Cut85points
- Wrinkled docile scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Wurflen's bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- XeniaDeep Cut85points
- Xinyuan honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Xochipilli Aztec-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Yamasu's cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Yamato MinerDeep Cut85points
- Yantai stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Algoa coneDeep Cut85points
- Yellow banded Pitted-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow bee pirateDeep Cut85points
- Yellow big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Yellow blotch rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Brown Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow cluster 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.