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
- Club carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Club fingerDeep Cut85points
- Club finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Club horned wood borer waspDeep Cut85points
- Club hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Club-gilled nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Club-horned sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Club-horned waspDeep Cut85points
- Club-tipped anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Clubbed finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Clyde's big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Coarse-backed Red Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Coarse-punctured NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Coastal brown-tail mothDeep Cut85points
- Coastal burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Coastal leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Coastal Red Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Coastal sculpted tree antDeep Cut85points
- Coastal slender antDeep Cut85points
- Coated orange peel caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Cobalt Blue Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cobalt Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Cobweb ConeDeep Cut85points
- Cockatoo waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Cockerell's bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Cockerell's CeratinaDeep Cut85points
- Cockroach hunting waspDeep Cut85points
- Cockroach waspDeep Cut85points
- Cockscomb cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Coco sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Cocoa tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Cocucci's Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Cognate Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Coiled wire coralDeep Cut85points
- Colares stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Cole's Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Collared antDeep Cut85points
- Collared Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Collared Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Collared sand anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Collared WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Collector urchinDeep Cut85points
- Colletes BeeDeep Cut85points
- Colliguay WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Collinsia MasonDeep Cut85points
- Colonial anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Colonial cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Colorado AgapostemonDeep Cut85points
- Colorado Calliopsis BeeDeep Cut85points
- Colorado Masked 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.