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
- Dybowski's hornetDeep Cut85points
- Eagle Creek Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eagle SlugDeep Cut85points
- Eared stalked-jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Earless Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Early Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Early mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Early nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Early sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- East African coastal honey beeDeep Cut85points
- East African mountain honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern ant-queen kidnapperDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Bare-MinerDeep Cut85points
- Eastern bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Buck MothDeep Cut85points
- Eastern chimney beeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern dracula antDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Indian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern nomad scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific black chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific spotted eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Eastern pygmy-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eastern queen scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Red ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Eastern ridge-back scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eastern sand scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eastern sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Eastern scaly miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern shovelnose stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern smooth ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Spine-shouldered Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern spotted eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Swollenstinger scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eastern tawny-horned spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Thistle Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern willow miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern yellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Easy Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ebmer's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ebony fat-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Echinacea LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Echinophyllia coralDeep Cut85points
- Echinopora coralDeep Cut85points
- Echo Mini-MinerDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian deep-sea scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Edible Monkey caterpillarDeep 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.