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
- Ghost Tube AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Ghost velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Ghostly scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Giant anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant banded flat rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Giant blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Giant brooding anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant Brown Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Giant bull antDeep Cut85points
- Giant burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Giant butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Giant Caribbean anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Giant Digger-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Giant forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Giant freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Giant furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Giant green anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant hunting antDeep Cut85points
- Giant IrukandjiDeep Cut85points
- Giant jumping antDeep Cut85points
- Giant phantom jellyDeep Cut85points
- Giant plumed anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant purple chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Giant resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Giant sand scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Giant Senegalese scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Giant Shore AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant siphonophoreDeep Cut85points
- Giant slit-pore sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Giant star coralDeep Cut85points
- Giant stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Giant stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Giant stonefishDeep Cut85points
- Giant stumptail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Giant Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Giant whip coralDeep Cut85points
- Gibbous Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gibbs's Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gilchrist's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ginger anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Girdle anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Glabrous coneDeep Cut85points
- Glacial SideractinidDeep Cut85points
- Glacial zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Glacier-loving soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Gladiator ConeDeep Cut85points
- Glamis night mutillidDeep Cut85points
- Glamis night tiphiidDeep 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.