Name an animal that stings - Krillion Answers 2026-11-08

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

Colorado OsmiaDeep Cut85points
Colorful aeolidDeep Cut85points
Colorful sea rodDeep Cut85points
Colorful sea whipDeep Cut85points
Colourful willow miner beeDeep Cut85points
Colt coralDeep Cut85points
Columnar Sandy ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
Columniform crust coralDeep Cut85points
Comanche harvester antDeep Cut85points
Comanche Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
Comb-bearer BeeDeep Cut85points
Comma Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
Commodius Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
Common American thief antDeep Cut85points
Common anthelid moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
Common Asian YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
Common black scorpionDeep Cut85points
Common black spider waspDeep Cut85points
Common crypt antDeep Cut85points
Common Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
Common eagle rayDeep Cut85points
Common ectemniusDeep Cut85points
Common encrusting soft coralDeep Cut85points
Common Epaulette-NomiaDeep Cut85points
Common European thief antDeep Cut85points
Common fierce antDeep Cut85points
Common fly-hunting waspDeep Cut85points
Common furrow beeDeep Cut85points
Common Giant-Reed beeDeep Cut85points
Common green furrow beeDeep Cut85points
Common Highveld lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
Common hydraDeep Cut85points
Common kingslayerDeep Cut85points
Common lace hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
Common lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
Common Little Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
Common Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
Common miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
Common mourning beeDeep Cut85points
Common mushroom coralDeep Cut85points
Common Oil-digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
Common oriental trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
Common Pantaloon BeeDeep Cut85points
Common plasterer beeDeep Cut85points
Common porthole antDeep Cut85points
Common razorjaw antDeep Cut85points
Common red cocktail antDeep Cut85points
Common silvery hunter antDeep Cut85points
Common slender-bodied digger waspDeep Cut85points
Common spiny digger waspDeep 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.