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
- French Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater bullroutDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater WaspfishDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Frida's Pharaoh antDeep Cut85points
- Friendless Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Friendly Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Friendly Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Frigid bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Frigid coneDeep Cut85points
- Frigid fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Frigid Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Frigid Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Frill-tailed stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Fringe Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fringe-horned mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Fringed Flower-loving Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fringed Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fringed Loosestrife Oil BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fringed ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Fringed TussockDeep Cut85points
- Fringeless nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Frog-face coralDeep Cut85points
- Frogspawn coralDeep Cut85points
- Frosty NoumeaellaDeep Cut85points
- Fu Manchu lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Fuch's Evening BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fuchsia lace hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Fuerteventura Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-haired Cellophane-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-legged Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-tailed Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Funereal WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Fungus coralDeep Cut85points
- Funnel antDeep Cut85points
- Furneaux scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Furrowed antDeep Cut85points
- Furry cautious antDeep Cut85points
- Furry Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Furry-bellied blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Furry-claspered furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Fuscous MinerDeep Cut85points
- Fuscous spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Fused ivory tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Fused staghorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Fuzzy dwarf lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Fuzzy Flower-loving Digger 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.