Krillion Recorded answers
6,671 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 6,671
- African thief antDeep Cut85points
- African whitespotted rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz’s coralDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz's deep-sea soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz's gilded coralDeep Cut85points
- Agate coneDeep Cut85points
- Aggregating anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Aggregating jellyDeep Cut85points
- Agile Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Agile Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Agnate Pitted-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Ainslie's Cellophane-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- AiptasiaDeep Cut85points
- Air fernDeep Cut85points
- Aka coralDeep Cut85points
- Alabama acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Alabaster ConeDeep Cut85points
- Alaska stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Alaska tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Alaska yellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Alaskan anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Alaskan furrowed antDeep Cut85points
- Alastor waspDeep Cut85points
- Alayo’s digger-cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Alcock's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Aldrich's cuckoo nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Aldworth mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Alfalfa leaf-cutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Alfalfa leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Alfken's miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Algae hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Algoa coneDeep Cut85points
- Algodones elegant sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Algodones Euparagia WaspDeep Cut85points
- Algodones sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Alin's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Alkali beeDeep Cut85points
- All-black Dark BeeDeep Cut85points
- All-blue ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- All-dark MinerDeep Cut85points
- All-pale perditaDeep Cut85points
- Allegheny Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Alleyn's LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Alligatorback scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Aloe Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Alphabet coneDeep Cut85points
- Alpine bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Alpine jack jumper antDeep Cut85points
- Alpine paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Alpine Sweat BeeDeep 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.