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
- Dark Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Dark southern black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Dark Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark star anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Dark TussockDeep Cut85points
- Dark-banded rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Dark-faced Brown Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Dark-faced Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-finned velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Dark-footed Yellow Loosestrife BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-headed Dimorphic-Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-legged Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-mouth chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Dark-red sea-penDeep Cut85points
- Dark-tailed Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-veined Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-waisted Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Dark-winged blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-winged Red-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Dark-winged Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Darkblotched rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Darklined Fire WormDeep Cut85points
- Darkspotted scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Darkspotted stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Darkwing Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dart Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dashwood's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Davidson's Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Davie's StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Davies' colletes beeDeep Cut85points
- Davies' Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Davis' big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Davis' Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Davis's Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Davis's zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Dawn Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dawson's burrowing beeDeep Cut85points
- Dazzling Red-tailed Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Deacon rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Dead man's fingersDeep Cut85points
- Dealer's coneDeep Cut85points
- Death camas miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Deceitful velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Deceptive Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Decorated Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Decorated rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Decorated Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Decoy scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Deep lobe coralDeep 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.