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
- Brick coralDeep Cut85points
- Brick-red CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Brigham's coralDeep Cut85points
- Bright-white Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Brilliant sea fingersDeep Cut85points
- Bristle Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bristlefront Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bristly black coralDeep Cut85points
- British Columbia miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Brittain's Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Broad stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Broad-banded hopper waspDeep Cut85points
- Broad-banded Longhorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-banded nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-cheeked Nocturnal-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-faced furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-faced Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-faced mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-footed Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-handed carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-handed Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-headed Hairy-WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Broad-headed Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-margined mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Broad-nosed Angled-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Broccoli coralDeep Cut85points
- Brock's moridillaDeep Cut85points
- Broken-belted bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Broken-horned antDeep Cut85points
- Bronze furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-lined rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Bronze-winged Bamboo-CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Bronzespotted rockfishDeep Cut85points
- BronzieDeep Cut85points
- Brooding anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brooks' AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Brow Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Brown banded moon jellyDeep Cut85points
- Brown brushy sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Brown burrowing aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Brown chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Brown cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Brown Colonial AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brown cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Brown cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Brown droptail antDeep Cut85points
- Brown encrusting anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brown fastpulse coralDeep Cut85points
- Brown gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Brown house antDeep 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.