Krillion Recorded answers
6,671 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 6,671
- Arabian Banded WhiprayDeep Cut85points
- Arabian black deathstalkerDeep Cut85points
- Arabian fat-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Arabian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Arabian Mud WaspDeep Cut85points
- Arabian paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Arabic WhiprayDeep Cut85points
- Arboreal bicolored antDeep Cut85points
- Arboreal sneaking antDeep Cut85points
- Arcas augerDeep Cut85points
- Arched ConeDeep Cut85points
- Arctic black coralDeep Cut85points
- Arctic brooding anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Arctic club coralDeep Cut85points
- Arctic moon jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Arctic sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Arctic soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Arctic Woolly Bear MothDeep Cut85points
- Arctic YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Argentine harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Argentinean Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Arizona CeratinaDeep Cut85points
- Arizona MexalictusDeep Cut85points
- Arizona mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Arizona Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Armadillo antDeep Cut85points
- Armed aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Armed anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Armed hermaphroditic anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Armed nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Armenian bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Armenian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Armored Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Armoured sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Armoured sea penDeep Cut85points
- Armyworm parasitoid waspDeep Cut85points
- Arnold's stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Arrowbreasted scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Artichoke coralDeep Cut85points
- Articulated NomadDeep Cut85points
- Artistic WaspDeep Cut85points
- Aru carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Ascher's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ashmead's acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Ashmead's collared antDeep Cut85points
- Ashmead's Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ashy furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Ashy mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Asian blue forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Asian bush scorpionDeep 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.