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
- California burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- California butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- California carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- California common scorpionDeep Cut85points
- California coneDeep Cut85points
- California Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- California curltail antDeep Cut85points
- California Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- California Digger-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- California Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- California golden gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- California harvester antDeep Cut85points
- California hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- California legionary antDeep Cut85points
- California Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- California Mellitid BeeDeep Cut85points
- California paper waspDeep Cut85points
- California Poppy Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- California Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- California scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- California stickhydroidDeep Cut85points
- California swollenstinger scorpionDeep Cut85points
- California XeromelectaDeep Cut85points
- California YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- California-Lilac MinerDeep Cut85points
- Californian box jellyDeep Cut85points
- Calliopsis Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Camoati WaspDeep Cut85points
- Camouflage anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Canada Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Canadian cuckoo nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Canadian potter waspDeep Cut85points
- Canadian robber antDeep Cut85points
- Canaries Dark Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Canaries Vested-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Canary Island sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Canary Islands Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Canary Islands Small-WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Canary rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Cancellate coneDeep Cut85points
- Candelabra nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Candy cane coralDeep Cut85points
- Candy nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Canjica AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Cano toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Canonical coneDeep Cut85points
- Cantharellus coralDeep Cut85points
- Canyon NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Cape burrowerDeep Cut85points
- Cape creeper scorpionDeep 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.