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
- Distantly-lineated coneDeep Cut85points
- Distinguished Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Distorted mushroom coralDeep Cut85points
- Divaricate Hairy-eyed Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Divergent black coralDeep Cut85points
- Diverse Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dixon's StingareeDeep Cut85points
- Doc's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Docile scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Dogwood guest antDeep Cut85points
- Dolan Falls PerditaDeep Cut85points
- Dome coralDeep Cut85points
- Dominican bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Dominican Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Domino cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Doris' PinemothDeep Cut85points
- Dot-winged Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dotted masked beeDeep Cut85points
- Double-banded scoliidDeep Cut85points
- Double-bar rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Double-barred spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Double-ocellated scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Double-ringed flabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Double-rowed sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Double-star coralDeep Cut85points
- Doubled Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Doubletoothed hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Doubtful acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Doubtful coneDeep Cut85points
- Doughnut sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Douglas-fir tussock mothDeep Cut85points
- Douglas's Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dow's toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Downland furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Downy LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Downy pennant antDeep Cut85points
- Downy Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Downy YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Dowsing sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Drab stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Drab thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Draco waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Dracula antDeep Cut85points
- Dragon stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Drake Long-horned Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Drakensberg creeper scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Driesbach's Metallic-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Driesbach's Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Droege's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dromedary Masked 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.