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
- Giant honey beeRare60points
- Giant sea urchinRare60points
- Green-head antRare60points
- Guinea paper waspRare60points
- Hard coralRare60points
- Hardhead catfishRare60points
- Hickory tussock moth caterpillarRare60points
- Hunting waspRare60points
- HydraRare60points
- Ichneumon waspRare60points
- Immortal jellyfishRare60points
- Indian red scorpionRare60points
- Irukandji jellyfishRare60points
- Japanese honey beeRare60points
- Japanese yellow hornetRare60points
- Large carpenter beeRare60points
- Large Garden Bumble BeeRare60points
- Large mason beeRare60points
- Large velvet antRare60points
- Lesser banded hornetRare60points
- Lesser Paper WaspRare60points
- Lion's mane jellyfishRare60points
- LionfishRare60points
- Little black antRare60points
- Little Carpenter BeeRare60points
- Little velvet antRare60points
- Lonomia caterpillarRare60points
- Malaysian forest scorpionRare60points
- Mason beeRare60points
- Mauve stingerRare60points
- Mediterranean Cone SnailRare60points
- Metallic green sweat beeRare60points
- Metallic Sweat BeeRare60points
- Mexican Bumble BeeRare60points
- Mexican carpenter beeRare60points
- Mexican Paper WaspRare60points
- Mexican scorpionRare60points
- Mexican tarantula-hawk waspRare60points
- Mining beeRare60points
- Moon jellyfishRare60points
- Moroccan fat-tailed scorpionRare60points
- Mountain bumble beeRare60points
- Mud dauberRare60points
- Mushroom coralRare60points
- Nettle caterpillarRare60points
- Northern giant hornetRare60points
- Northern Paper WaspRare60points
- Oak processionaryRare60points
- Organ pipe coralRare60points
- Pacific crown-of-thorns starfishRare60points
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.