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
- European fire antDeep Cut85points
- European hornetDeep Cut85points
- European legume miner beeDeep Cut85points
- European LonghornDeep Cut85points
- European mason waspDeep Cut85points
- European orchard beeDeep Cut85points
- European pit-jawed antDeep Cut85points
- European robber antDeep Cut85points
- European Rotund-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- European Small-WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- European tube waspDeep Cut85points
- European Yellow Loosestrife-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- European yellow-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eveline's learchisDeep Cut85points
- Evening Metallic-Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Evening Primrose Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Evermann's coralDeep Cut85points
- Evolving Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Exceptional coneDeep Cut85points
- Executioner Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Exiled LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Experienced Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Exquisite Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Exquisite sea penDeep Cut85points
- Extorted Tussock caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Eye-spotted eubranchusDeep Cut85points
- Eyebrow scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Eyed coralDeep Cut85points
- Eyeless cave scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Eyespot Anthelid caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Fabian's crevice anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Fabricius' nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- FacelinaDeep Cut85points
- Fair lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fairy palm hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Falcate LionfishDeep Cut85points
- Falkor ChimaeraDeep Cut85points
- False Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- False dandelion miner beeDeep Cut85points
- False eyespot sea nettleDeep Cut85points
- False flower coralDeep Cut85points
- False Goblin BeeDeep Cut85points
- False golden coneDeep Cut85points
- False Karoo burrowerDeep Cut85points
- False knob coralDeep Cut85points
- False lichen coralDeep Cut85points
- False moon jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- False mud-dauber waspDeep Cut85points
- False pillow coralDeep 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.