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
- Deep Sea Carnation CoralDeep Cut85points
- Deep Sea Cauliflower CoralDeep Cut85points
- Deep south collared antDeep Cut85points
- Deep velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Deep-blue Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea bristly scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea star coralDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Deepbody spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Deeplet sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Deepreef scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- DeepstariaDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater branching coralDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater coralDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Deerberry Blunt-HornDeep Cut85points
- Definite Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Deforge's stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Delagoa cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Delanoy's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Delessert's coneDeep Cut85points
- Delicate hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Delicate ivory bush coralDeep Cut85points
- Delicate sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Delicate sea penDeep Cut85points
- Delicate sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Small-WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Delicate spiny sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Delicate trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Dementor waspDeep Cut85points
- Dense bushy hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Dense carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Densely Punctured Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dentate flower coralDeep Cut85points
- Dentate Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Denticulate Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Denticulate NomadDeep Cut85points
- Depressed NomadDeep Cut85points
- Desert big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Desert Buzzing BeeDeep Cut85points
- Desert cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Desert Dandelion Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Desert funnel antDeep Cut85points
- Desert harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Desert long-legged antDeep 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.