Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Black-and-Green Dialictus Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-red MinerDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-white Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-yellow cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-yellow Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-and-yellow rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Black-backed Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded Honey BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-banded spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Black-bellied hornetDeep Cut85points
- Black-blotched stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Black-bodied Browntail Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Black-brushed leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-clothed Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-clothed WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Black-edged bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Black-end ConeDeep Cut85points
- Black-faced Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-footed Mountain-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Black-fronted turret beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-haired miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-headed leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-headed mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-horned nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-legged Longhorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-mouthed furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-mouthed Morning glory-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Black-notched Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-scaped bull antDeep Cut85points
- Black-sided Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-sided Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-spotted whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Black-striped Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed alligatorback scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed antenna rayDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed HornetDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed Small-WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed thicktailDeep Cut85points
- Black-thighed epeolusDeep Cut85points
- Black-tipped Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black-tipped miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Black-tipped Orange Ichneumon WaspDeep Cut85points
- Black-tipped thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Black-velvet Flat-NomadDeep 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.