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
- Coral rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Coral scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Coral sea stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Cordate-headed Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Cordia Green-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Cordley's Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Corkscrew anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Corky sea fingerDeep Cut85points
- Cornucopic coralDeep Cut85points
- Coromandel whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Corrugated lace hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Cortez round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- CorydorasDeep Cut85points
- Coscinaraea coralDeep Cut85points
- Cosmic jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Costa Rican Pitted-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Costilla Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cousin YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Cousinly Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cousinly Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Covered-cell mud-dauber waspDeep Cut85points
- Cow stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Cowardly anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Cowtail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Cox's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Cozumel scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Crab anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Crabronoid Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Crafty Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cranberry leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Cranesbill MinerDeep Cut85points
- Crazy Beach BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cream spotted ichneumon waspDeep Cut85points
- Cream-banded Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Creeper scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Creeper TussockDeep Cut85points
- Creeping bell hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Creeping jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Creeping orange hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Crenulate Armoured-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Creole ConeDeep Cut85points
- Creosote Bush AncylandrenaDeep Cut85points
- Creosote Digger-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Creosote Evening BeeDeep Cut85points
- Creosote Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Cresson's Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cresson's DialictusDeep Cut85points
- Cresson's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Cresson's Mining 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.