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
- Glassy plume hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Glaucous coneDeep Cut85points
- Glaucous pimpletDeep Cut85points
- Glittering Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Globe Mallow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Globemallow AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Globemallow cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Globular Pebblenest BeeDeep Cut85points
- Globular thief antDeep Cut85points
- Glorious ProtoxaeaDeep Cut85points
- Glory of the seaDeep Cut85points
- Glory-of-india coneDeep Cut85points
- Glory-of-the-Atlantic coneDeep Cut85points
- Glossy ConeDeep Cut85points
- Glowing carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Gnome's hat hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Goat Island BabakinaDeep Cut85points
- Goatee velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Goatsbeard Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Goblet stalked-jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Goblin antDeep Cut85points
- Goblin BeeDeep Cut85points
- GoblinfishDeep Cut85points
- Goddard's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Godfrey's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Goeldi's Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Gold coralDeep Cut85points
- Gold dust stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Gold-barred Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gold-fingered Grass-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Gold-fringed CerberillaDeep Cut85points
- Gold-fringed mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Gold-leaf ConeDeep Cut85points
- Gold-marked thread-waisted waspDeep Cut85points
- Gold-saddle rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Gold-spot spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Gold-Spotted SpinefootDeep Cut85points
- Gold-tipped leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Golden anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Golden Ball CorallimorphDeep Cut85points
- Golden cloak anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Golden coneDeep Cut85points
- Golden cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Golden cricket waspDeep Cut85points
- Golden digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Golden fire antDeep Cut85points
- Golden firewormDeep Cut85points
- Golden furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Golden hunting waspDeep Cut85points
- Golden 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.