Krillion Recorded answers
6,671 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 6,671
- Alternate Cuckoo Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Alumroot Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Alveopora coralDeep Cut85points
- Amadis coneDeep Cut85points
- Amakusa jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Amanda's augerDeep Cut85points
- Amanda's freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Amatola creeping scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ambassador coneDeep Cut85points
- Amber marbled coneDeep Cut85points
- Ambiguous MinerDeep Cut85points
- Ambon scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Amecameca Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- American black coralDeep Cut85points
- American brackish water medusaDeep Cut85points
- American Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- American Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- American cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- American furrowed antDeep Cut85points
- American mite-eating antDeep Cut85points
- American Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- American round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- American sand waspDeep Cut85points
- American tube-dwelling anemoneDeep Cut85points
- American zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Amiculiform Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Amphiurgus coneDeep Cut85points
- AnacroporaDeep Cut85points
- Anastasia's big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Anatolian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Ancient Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Andaman coneDeep Cut85points
- Andaman shortnose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Andean Black LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Andean Gardener Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Andean Red Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Andover lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Andre's acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Andre's harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Andrenoid Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Andres's sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Andrews' Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Andros Island Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Andros small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Anemone ConeDeep Cut85points
- Anemone nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Anemone sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Angas's ConeDeep 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.