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
- Bluemouth rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Bluetip coralDeep Cut85points
- Blunt tailed digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-jawed nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-spined big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Blunthorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Blunthorn nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Blushing Monkey caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Blushing star coralDeep Cut85points
- Boeseman's river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Bogbean Buck Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Bold scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian Short-tongueDeep Cut85points
- Boll's Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Bolton's Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bolton's LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Bombiform Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bonaire banded box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Bone-house waspDeep Cut85points
- Bonsai bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Bonsai tree hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Boquillas canyon scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Bordered Browntail Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Borderless hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Boreal blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Boreal Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Boreal YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Bornean queenless antDeep Cut85points
- Borneo mountain honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Borrego sand scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Bosch's coneDeep Cut85points
- Boschma’s Mushroom CoralDeep Cut85points
- Boston facelinaDeep Cut85points
- Botryoid stickhydroidDeep Cut85points
- Botswana dasylabrine waspDeep Cut85points
- Botswana mutilline waspDeep Cut85points
- Botswana needle-waisted sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Botswana spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Botswana weevil waspDeep Cut85points
- Bottle-brush black coralDeep Cut85points
- Bottlebrush acroporaDeep Cut85points
- Bottlebrush coralDeep Cut85points
- Bottlebrush hydroidDeep Cut85points
- bough coneDeep Cut85points
- Boulder brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Boulder collared antDeep Cut85points
- Boulder coralDeep Cut85points
- Boulder star coralDeep Cut85points
- Bounded Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bounded Small CarpenterDeep 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.