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
- Boutillier's black coralDeep Cut85points
- Bouyssou's Thick-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Bowers's gold tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Bowl coralDeep Cut85points
- Box fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Box-elder Tussock Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Box-headed blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Box-headed Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Box-headed Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Box-Wood coneDeep Cut85points
- Boxer crab anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Braccate Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bracket coralDeep Cut85points
- Brackish hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Brackish-water hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bradley's andrenaDeep Cut85points
- Bradley's manic antDeep Cut85points
- Brain root coralDeep Cut85points
- Brain trumpet coralDeep Cut85points
- Bramble Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Branch coralDeep Cut85points
- Branched antenna hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Branched cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Branched finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Branched Mangrove AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Branched sandpaper coralDeep Cut85points
- Branched tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Branching anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Branching fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Branching flowerpot coralDeep Cut85points
- Branching Frogspawn CoralDeep Cut85points
- Branching staghorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Branco river freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Brandberg scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Branham's coneDeep Cut85points
- Brassy Hairy-Cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Brassy Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Brassy-faced Metallic-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Brawny burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian brown scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian large-eyed stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian red anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian red house scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian rose coralDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian starlet coralDeep Cut85points
- Breede Valley burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Brian Hayes's coneDeep 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.