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-foot Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-footed peninsular black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-fronted bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-fronted Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-green Austral-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed flower waspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-headed spider-hunting waspDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-horned Morning Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-legged mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-legged nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-legged Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-margined Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-nose scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-shouldered nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-sided CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-spotted Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-spotted Dark BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-spotted LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-spotted spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-spotted stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-striped lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-striped Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-tailed Rotund-Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-vented hornetDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-zoned Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Yellowback stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Yellowbanded red weeverDeep Cut85points
- Yellowbarred red rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowbum hotrod antDeep Cut85points
- Yelloweye rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowgray rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish Cuckoo Bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yellowmouth rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowspotted scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowstripe rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Yellowtail rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Yepayek soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Yerba Santa Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yucatan Margined-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Yukon Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Yutlinux bubblegum coralDeep Cut85points
- Zagros fat-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Zavortink's Protodufourea 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.