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
- Fireworks hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Fireworks jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Fireworks nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Fish-eating urticinaDeep Cut85points
- Fishbone hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Fisher's AeolidDeep Cut85points
- FitzSimons' burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Five-banded thynnid waspDeep Cut85points
- Five-banded weevil-waspDeep Cut85points
- Five-Eyes Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Five-spined beeDeep Cut85points
- Five-spined NomadDeep Cut85points
- Five-spotted spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Five-spotted velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Five-striped Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fjord sand encrusting anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Fjord saplingDeep Cut85points
- FlabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Flag rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Flame AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Flame coneDeep Cut85points
- Flame humpback scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Flame jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Flame RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Flame-coloured coneDeep Cut85points
- Flame-tailed Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- FlamebackDeep Cut85points
- Flamed tarantula-hawk waspDeep Cut85points
- Flamingo coneDeep Cut85points
- Flasher scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Flashman's coneDeep Cut85points
- Flat coralDeep Cut85points
- Flat cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Flat Glassy jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Flat lettuce coralDeep Cut85points
- Flat lobe coralDeep Cut85points
- Flat rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Flat stink antDeep Cut85points
- Flat waspDeep Cut85points
- Flat-collared beewolfDeep Cut85points
- Flat-faced Cactus BeeDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Flat-ridged nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Flat-tailed Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- FlatheadDeep Cut85points
- Flattened sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Flattened sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Flattened Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Flavescent Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Flavous nomad 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.