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
- Brown hydraDeep Cut85points
- Brown jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Brown Peachia AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brown RedivivaDeep Cut85points
- Brown rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Brown sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brown spiny timid antDeep Cut85points
- Brown stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Brown stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Brown tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Brown vapourer caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Brown-banded carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-bellied Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-belted bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-flamed ConeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-footed leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-fovea MinerDeep Cut85points
- Brown-legged grass-carrying waspDeep Cut85points
- Brown-reticulate stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Brown-rimmed moon jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Brown-spotted lettered small carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-spotted rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Brown-spotted spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Brown-striped sand anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Brown-winged Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Brown-winged Striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Browntail gum moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Brues' Mini-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Bruised coneDeep Cut85points
- Bruner's DialictusDeep Cut85points
- Bruner's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Brush coralDeep Cut85points
- Bryant's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bryony mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Bubble coneDeep Cut85points
- Bubble coralDeep Cut85points
- Bubble gum coralDeep Cut85points
- Buck-toothed bull antDeep Cut85points
- Buckell's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Buckfast beeDeep Cut85points
- Buckwheat Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Buenos Aires LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Buff-banded mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Buffish mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Bufflehead Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bula Acropora coralDeep Cut85points
- Bulbous carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Bulbous zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Bull-headed furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Bullhead scorpionfishDeep 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.