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
- Zebra beeDeep Cut85points
- Zebra coralDeep Cut85points
- Zebra lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Zebra Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- ZenLife by StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Zephyr DialictusDeep Cut85points
- Zephyr Eyed SilkmothDeep Cut85points
- Zephyr Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Zhejiang Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Zimmer's sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Zimmermann's mud waspDeep Cut85points
- Zip hydroidDeep Cut85points
- ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Zoned Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Zoned coneDeep Cut85points
- Zonetail butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Zululand rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- African HoneybeeRare60points
- Africanized beeRare60points
- American bumble beeRare60points
- Arabian deathstalkerRare60points
- Arizona bark scorpionRare60points
- Arizona Carpenter BeeRare60points
- Asian honey beeRare60points
- Asian hornetRare60points
- Asian mud dauberRare60points
- Auger shellRare60points
- Australian box jellyfishRare60points
- Australian hornetRare60points
- Australian Paper WaspRare60points
- Banded Sweat BeeRare60points
- Bark scorpionRare60points
- Black coralRare60points
- Black deathstalkerRare60points
- Black hairy scorpionRare60points
- Black imported fire antRare60points
- Black Miner BeeRare60points
- Black Sweat BeeRare60points
- Black-and-yellow mud dauberRare60points
- Blue antRare60points
- Blue carpenter beeRare60points
- Blue catfishRare60points
- Blue dragonRare60points
- Blue orchard beeRare60points
- BluebottleRare60points
- Bluntnose stingrayRare60points
- Brain coralRare60points
- Brazilian yellow scorpionRare60points
- Bristle wormRare60points
- Brown-tail moth caterpillarRare60points
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.