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
- Common stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Common stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Common thread-waisted waspDeep Cut85points
- Common wasp-mimic beeDeep Cut85points
- Common yellow scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Common yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- Compact bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Compact Cellophane-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Compact ivory bush coralDeep Cut85points
- Companion SharptailDeep Cut85points
- Companion Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Compass jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Composite Bare-MinerDeep Cut85points
- Composite Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Composite Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Compressed coralDeep Cut85points
- Compressed Dark BeeDeep Cut85points
- Conant's Nama-ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Concave Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Concave-nosed Striped-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Concolorous Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Cone EubranchusDeep Cut85points
- Coneflower Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Coneflower Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Coneflower Painted-Dark beeDeep Cut85points
- Conehead Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Confluent Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Confusing AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Confusing bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Confusing Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Confusing SharptailDeep Cut85points
- Congo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Conical star coralDeep Cut85points
- Connected Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Conospermum LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Conspicuous cone cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Conspicuous Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Constricted jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Contorted stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Cooley's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cooper's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Copeland Park Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Copper rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Copper-tinted miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Coppery Metallic-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Coppery Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Coppice mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Coral anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Coral Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Coral Pink Sand Dunes Potter 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.