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
- Edward's bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Edward's MelectaDeep Cut85points
- Edwards' Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Edwards' Wool-carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Edwards's Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Edwards's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Eelgrass anemoneDeep Cut85points
- effulgent coneDeep Cut85points
- Egg-yolk jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Eggers’ pygmy snapping antDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian Blunt-hornDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian MinerDeep Cut85points
- Ehrhorn's Rotund-Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eight ray finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Eight Spot Tussock caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Eight-spotted miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Eight-spotted scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Eight-strand jellyDeep Cut85points
- Eight-toothed Cuckoo Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eisen's Rotund-Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- El StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Elderberry Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Elect NomadDeep Cut85points
- Electra BuckmothDeep Cut85points
- Elegance coralDeep Cut85points
- Elegant AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Elegant burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Elegant grass-carrying waspDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Hairy-Cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Elegant jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Elegant leaf-cutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Elegant sea penDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Stem BeeDeep Cut85points
- Elegant tarantula-hawk waspDeep Cut85points
- Elephant ear anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Elephant ear coralDeep Cut85points
- Elephant skin coralDeep Cut85points
- Elephant Volcano-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Elise's Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Elliot's Giant-Reed beeDeep Cut85points
- Elliptical star coralDeep Cut85points
- Ellis's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Elongate mushroom coralDeep Cut85points
- Elongate razorjaw antDeep Cut85points
- Elongate twig antDeep Cut85points
- Elongate zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Emarginated Carder 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.