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
- Forest bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Forest cuckoo bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Forest fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Forest floor yellow acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Forest Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Forest Shell WaspDeep Cut85points
- Forest thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Forest YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Fork-jawed nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Fork-tailed flower beeDeep Cut85points
- Forked-tentacle corallimorpharianDeep Cut85points
- Forktail rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Formosan gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Formosan Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Fossi's encrusting anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Fountain anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Four banded stink bug waspDeep Cut85points
- Four tentacled jellyDeep Cut85points
- Four-banded flower beeDeep Cut85points
- Four-banded hopper waspDeep Cut85points
- Four-banded NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Four-banded weevil-waspDeep Cut85points
- Four-colour nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Four-coloured cuckoo bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Four-handed box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted cave IchneumonDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted Cup MothDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Four-striped Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Four-striped Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Four-toothed Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Fourspine scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Foveolate Margined-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Foveolate Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fox coralDeep Cut85points
- Fox's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Foxface rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Fragile Dogwood AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Fragile geography coneDeep Cut85points
- Fragile mushroom coralDeep Cut85points
- Fragile saucer coralDeep Cut85points
- Fragile sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Fragrant Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Frail sea penDeep Cut85points
- Franklin's bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Fraternal Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Fraussen's coneDeep Cut85points
- Freckled burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Freckled rockfishDeep 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.