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-waisted Chilli-tailDeep Cut85points
- Black-waisted pronged NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Black-waved flannel moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Blackbanded rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackberry Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Blackblotched rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackdot NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Blackedge whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Blackeye rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfin stonefishDeep Cut85points
- Blackfish stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Blackfoot lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackgill rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackish Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Blackish stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Blacklash scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackmouth rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackspot waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackspotted rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Blackthorn mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Blacktip rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Bladed box fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Bladed fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Blanching Soft-CoralDeep Cut85points
- BlastomussaDeep Cut85points
- Blatchley's Perdita BeeDeep Cut85points
- Blazing-star AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Bleeker's lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Bleeker's whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Blind crypt antDeep Cut85points
- Blister anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Blister coralDeep Cut85points
- Blob-top jellyDeep Cut85points
- Blonde Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Blood-painted Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Blood-stained coneDeep Cut85points
- Blood-tailed Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Blood-tailed scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Blood-tipped Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bloody spider-hunting waspDeep Cut85points
- Bloomed furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Blossom coneDeep Cut85points
- Blotch-finned waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Blotched Polynesian scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Blotched stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Blotchfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Blotchwing spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Blue blubber jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Blue buttonDeep 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.