Krillion Recorded answers
6,671 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 6,671
- Angel beeDeep Cut85points
- Angeles Striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Angle-eyed bifurcated antDeep Cut85points
- Angle-faced Metallic-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Angle-jawed Metallic-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Angled jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Anglespot River StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Angola RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Angophora Reed BeeDeep Cut85points
- Angular MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Angular sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Angulate lonely antDeep Cut85points
- Anjuna AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Annandale's StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Annulate Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Annulate NomadDeep Cut85points
- Annulate stickhydroidDeep Cut85points
- Annulate sticky hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Anochetus trap-jaw antsDeep Cut85points
- Anomalous DialictusDeep Cut85points
- Anomalous Metallic Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Anomalous Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Antennal-waving waspDeep Cut85points
- Antennata lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Antennate MacronomiaDeep Cut85points
- Anthricinan yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Antilope mason waspDeep Cut85points
- Antioch Andrenid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Antioch Dunes Halcitid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Antioch multilid waspDeep Cut85points
- Antioch Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Antioch sphecid waspDeep Cut85points
- Antipodes CallomelittaDeep Cut85points
- Antler coralDeep Cut85points
- Anza desert harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Anza-Borrego hairy scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Apache AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Apache Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Apache Plume Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Apache twig antDeep Cut85points
- Aphid waspDeep Cut85points
- Apical Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Apiform Morning glory-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Appalachian Cuckoo Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Appalachian Metallic-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Appendiculate Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Apple bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Aquarium medusaDeep 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.