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
- Fuzzy pavement antDeep Cut85points
- Fuzzy table coralDeep Cut85points
- Fuzzy-horned bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Fynbos burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Gabb's Burrowing-Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gabb's Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gadim scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Gafftopsail catfishDeep Cut85points
- Galactacma scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos coralDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos dandelionDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Galaxy coralDeep Cut85points
- Gall-dwelling cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Ganges stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Gap-toothed red deepwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Garcia's coneDeep Cut85points
- Garden ectemniusDeep Cut85points
- Gardiner's coralDeep Cut85points
- Garland hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Garlepp's Oil-digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Garman's freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Garter Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Garter ConeDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy BabakinaDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy black coralDeep Cut85points
- Gauguin's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Gay's austral small carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Gay's Austral-LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Gay's Digger-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Gay's WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Gem anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Gem slug caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Genal Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- General coneDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy's blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Geography coneDeep Cut85points
- George Eickwort's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Georgia Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Georgiana's tussock caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Gerstaecker's cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Ghaap burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Ghanean rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Ghanean scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ghiliani's carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Ghost AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Ghost coralDeep Cut85points
- Ghost jellyfishDeep 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.