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
- Droptail antDeep Cut85points
- Drury's Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dry sea featherDeep Cut85points
- Dubious Hairy-WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Duchassaing's colonial anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Duerden's sun anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Dull-headed blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Dull-vented sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Dulotic acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Dumerle's Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Duncan coralDeep Cut85points
- Dune devil scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Dunning's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Durango bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Durban red cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Durban ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Dusavel's coneDeep Cut85points
- Dushia FlabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Dusky burrowerDeep Cut85points
- Dusky ConeDeep Cut85points
- Dusky cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Dusky hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Dusky rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Dusky rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Dusky spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Dusky spinefoot rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Dusky spongious coralDeep Cut85points
- Dusky velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Dusky-horned nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Dusky-winged AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Dusky-winged Forest-Nomia BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dusky-winged Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Dusty Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf balloon aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf black stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf CeratinaDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf MasonDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf red deepwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf sicklefin chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf wood scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf-dandelion AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf-red rockfishDeep 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.