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
- False plexauraDeep Cut85points
- False plum anemoneDeep Cut85points
- False red coralDeep Cut85points
- False reticulate freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- False scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- False stonefishDeep Cut85points
- False Sunflower Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- False virgin coneDeep Cut85points
- False-lined black coralDeep Cut85points
- False-margined blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Far Eastern Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Farmer's timid antDeep Cut85points
- Fat anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Fat Buzzing BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fat curltail antDeep Cut85points
- Fat tentacle torch coralDeep Cut85points
- Fat-armed jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Fatclaw scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Fattig's Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fattigi's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Faulkner's coralDeep Cut85points
- Faure's droptail antDeep Cut85points
- FaviaDeep Cut85points
- FavitesDeep Cut85points
- FavorinusDeep Cut85points
- Fawn Vapourer caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Feather black coralDeep Cut85points
- Feather boa sea penDeep Cut85points
- Feather coralDeep Cut85points
- Feather hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Feather plume hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Feather-legged scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Feathered coneDeep Cut85points
- Feathery black coralDeep Cut85points
- Feathery Leioproctus beeDeep Cut85points
- Feathery sea penDeep Cut85points
- Federal Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Feigning garden antDeep Cut85points
- Felt-topped NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Fen Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Ferguson's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Fern hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Fern Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fernald brooding anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Fernald Cuckoo Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fernald's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Ferocious polybia waspDeep Cut85points
- Ferruginous Yellow-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Ferruginous-tailed Austral-NomiaDeep 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.