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
- Carrot mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Cash's scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Cassiopea DondiceDeep Cut85points
- Castell's nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Cat coneDeep Cut85points
- Cat's paw coralDeep Cut85points
- Catalina anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Catch bowl coralDeep Cut85points
- Caterpillar hunting waspDeep Cut85points
- Catkin-haired sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Catsear mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Catsear nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Catskill Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Cattell's Metallic-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Caucasian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Cauliflower coralDeep Cut85points
- Cauliflower jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Causse's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Cave star coralDeep Cut85points
- Cea's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ceanothus Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ceanothus flower miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Ceanothus Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ceanothus Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- CEBIMar moon jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Cecconi's collared antDeep Cut85points
- Cecrops eyed silkmoth moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Cedarberg burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Cederberg rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Celeste RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Celeste-spotted Neon Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Celestial Striped-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Celine's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Central American Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Central Australian Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Central Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Central Comb-bearerDeep Cut85points
- Centris beeDeep Cut85points
- Centurion coneDeep Cut85points
- CerberillaDeep Cut85points
- Cerulean Cuckoo-Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cerulean Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Chained scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Chalcidiform ChilicolaDeep Cut85points
- Chaldean coneDeep Cut85points
- Chalice coralDeep Cut85points
- Chalk yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- Challenger gilded coralDeep Cut85points
- Chameleon rockfishDeep 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.