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
- Bubble tip anemoneRare60points
- Buck moth caterpillarRare60points
- Buff-tailed bumblebeeRare60points
- Bull antRare60points
- Bullhead catfishRare60points
- Burrowing scorpionRare60points
- California Mason BeeRare60points
- Cannonball jellyfishRare60points
- Caribbean box jellyfishRare60points
- Caribbean CarpenterRare60points
- Carpenter beeRare60points
- CatfishRare60points
- Central American bark scorpionRare60points
- Channel catfishRare60points
- Chilean eagle rayRare60points
- Common carder beeRare60points
- Common eastern bumble beeRare60points
- Common long-spined urchinRare60points
- Common sea anemoneRare60points
- Common sea fanRare60points
- Common soft coralRare60points
- Common waspRare60points
- Cone snailRare60points
- CoralRare60points
- Crown-of-thorns starfishRare60points
- Cuckoo beeRare60points
- Cuckoo Bumble BeeRare60points
- Cuckoo waspRare60points
- DeathstalkerRare60points
- Diamond stingrayRare60points
- Driver antRare60points
- Eagle rayRare60points
- Early bumblebeeRare60points
- Eastern Green Sweat BeeRare60points
- Eastern velvet antRare60points
- Elkhorn coralRare60points
- Emperor scorpionRare60points
- European dark beeRare60points
- European paper waspRare60points
- Executioner waspRare60points
- Fat-tailed scorpionRare60points
- Fire coralRare60points
- FirewormRare60points
- Flannel mothRare60points
- Freshwater jellyfishRare60points
- Fried egg jellyfishRare60points
- Garden bumblebeeRare60points
- German waspRare60points
- Giant Bumble BeeRare60points
- Giant desert hairy scorpionRare60points
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.