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
- Cape Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cape fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Cape honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Cape lappet moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Cape Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Cape scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Cape thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Cape Trouser BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cape Verde AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Cape Verde ConeDeep Cut85points
- Cape Verde Cup CoralDeep Cut85points
- Cape Yellow Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cape zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Capillate LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Capped Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- Capricious Dimorphic-Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Captain coneDeep Cut85points
- Cardinal coneDeep Cut85points
- Cardinal scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean cicada-killer waspDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean coneDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean horn coralDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean sun anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean trailing antDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean whiptail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Carinate Armored-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Carinate LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Carinate Rotund-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Caripito itch moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Carlin's Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Carmine sea sprayDeep Cut85points
- Carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Carniolan honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Carolina Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Carolina collared antDeep Cut85points
- Carolina legionary antDeep Cut85points
- Carolina Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Carolina thief antDeep Cut85points
- Carpathian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Carpenter ConeDeep Cut85points
- Carpenter-mimic Cuckoo-leaf-cutterDeep Cut85points
- Carpenter-mimic Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Carpenter's sea penDeep Cut85points
- Carpet anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Carpet coralDeep Cut85points
- Carrion Pharaoh antDeep Cut85points
- Carroll's big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Carrot coneDeep 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.