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
- Yellow coneDeep Cut85points
- Yellow cup black coralDeep Cut85points
- Yellow cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Yellow encrusting anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Yellow feathersDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Fiji Leather CoralDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Fire WaspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Flannel MothDeep Cut85points
- Yellow forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Yellow ground scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow hairy flower waspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Highveld lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Iranian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow leather coralDeep Cut85points
- Yellow lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow loosestrife beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Mimic-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Yellow mono antDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Oriental Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Pacific coneDeep Cut85points
- Yellow pencil coralDeep Cut85points
- Yellow sand scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow scroll coralDeep Cut85points
- yellow sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Yellow sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Yellow shovelnose stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow slender antDeep Cut85points
- Yellow sneaking antDeep Cut85points
- Yellow spotted stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Yellow tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Yellow TussockDeep Cut85points
- Yellow waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-and-black Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-backed Cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-backed NomadDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded Giant-Masked beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded NomadDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded Painted-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded Polybia WaspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-banded scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-based tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied BaldyDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bodied Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-collared carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-collared Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-collared Slug MothDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced miner 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.