Krillion Recorded answers
6,682 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 6,682
- Bullhead scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Bullnose eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- BullroutDeep Cut85points
- Bullseye round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Bumble-bee-mimic AnthophoraDeep Cut85points
- BumblebeewolfDeep Cut85points
- Bumelia Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bumpy star coralDeep Cut85points
- Burbage mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Burchell's army antDeep Cut85points
- Burnished coneDeep Cut85points
- Burns' Hairy-Cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Burnt ConeDeep Cut85points
- Burnt cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing brown anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Bush coralDeep Cut85points
- Bushy acroporaDeep Cut85points
- Bushy coralDeep Cut85points
- bushy crust coralDeep Cut85points
- Bushy hard coralDeep Cut85points
- Bushy hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bushy sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Busy Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Buttercup Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly ConeDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly-wolf waspDeep Cut85points
- Button coralDeep Cut85points
- Buysson's paper waspDeep Cut85points
- By-the-wind sailorDeep Cut85points
- Byno scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Byssal Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Cabbage coralDeep Cut85points
- Cabbage leatherDeep Cut85points
- Cabbage Leather-CoralDeep Cut85points
- Cabrit's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Cactus BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cactus chimney beeDeep Cut85points
- Cactus coralDeep Cut85points
- Cactus Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cactus sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Caerulean Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Caillet's stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Cali tortDeep Cut85points
- Calico Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- California big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- California Bumble 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.