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
- Embroidered Lacipa caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Emerald Armored-Cuckoo sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Emerald cockroach waspDeep Cut85points
- Emerald Comb-bearerDeep Cut85points
- Emerald Cuckoo-Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Emerald Metallic-Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Emerald Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Emery's sneaking antDeep Cut85points
- Emilia’s EpeolusDeep Cut85points
- Emma’s pygmy snapping antDeep Cut85points
- Empress anteaeolidiellaDeep Cut85points
- Encelia MegandrenaDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting bolder coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting colonial anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting pore coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting poritesDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting sandpaper coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting star coralDeep Cut85points
- End-banded furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Endesa saucer coralDeep Cut85points
- Enersis hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Engel's FlabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Englert's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Engraved coneDeep Cut85points
- Eous Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Epaulette Metallic Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ephemeral MinerDeep Cut85points
- Episcopal coneDeep Cut85points
- Episcopal Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Erdmann's zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Erigavo thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eritrean thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eroded antDeep Cut85points
- Esaki's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Esaki's Nomiine-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Eschmeyer's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Estuary cobblerDeep Cut85points
- Estuary stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Estuary stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Ethiopian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Ethiopian thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eucalyptus MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Eucera Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Eulaema beeDeep Cut85points
- Euphorb Mini-Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Euphorbia NomadopsisDeep Cut85points
- EuphylliaDeep 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.