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
- Cuckoo YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Cuckoo-Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Cucumber sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Cucumber Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Cullum's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cuming's coneDeep Cut85points
- Cuneate Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Cup moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Cup-legged MasonDeep Cut85points
- Curaçao Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Curtained jellyDeep Cut85points
- Cururu rayDeep Cut85points
- Curved Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Curved Spur Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Curvedspine scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Curvy-legged NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Cushion-vented Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cutworm waspDeep Cut85points
- Cuvier's coneDeep Cut85points
- Cyclops Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- Cylindrical coneDeep Cut85points
- Cylindrical finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Cylindrical sea penDeep Cut85points
- CyphastreaDeep Cut85points
- Cypress acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Cyprus honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Cyprus Processionary MothDeep Cut85points
- Cyprus scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Cyrenaican Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Dahlia anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Daisy anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Daisy Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Daisy stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Daisy whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Dakota Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dall's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Dalla Torre's CeratinaDeep Cut85points
- Dalmatian mane jellyDeep Cut85points
- Dandelion coralDeep Cut85points
- Danielssen's zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Danubian MinerDeep Cut85points
- Dappled Neon Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Dark Blotch ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Dark ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Dark guest antDeep Cut85points
- Dark LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Dark LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Dark NomadDeep 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.