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
- Gotham BeeDeep Cut85points
- Governor ConeDeep Cut85points
- Graceful aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Graceful black coralDeep Cut85points
- Gracile hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Gracile lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Gracile thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Gradated ConeDeep Cut85points
- Graduated sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Graenicher's Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Graenicher's Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Graham's red deepwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Graham's sheet coralDeep Cut85points
- Grain string coralDeep Cut85points
- Grainy rugged ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Grand ConeDeep Cut85points
- Granger's coneDeep Cut85points
- Granular-clawed thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Granulate crypt antDeep Cut85points
- Granulated mushroom coralDeep Cut85points
- Granulated thick-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Grapeleaf skeletonizerDeep Cut85points
- Grass crack anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Grass rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Grass scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Grass-carrying waspDeep Cut85points
- Grassi's fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Grassy Green-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gray encrusting anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Gray PlexaurellaDeep Cut85points
- Gray rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Gray sea penDeep Cut85points
- Gray sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Gray-backed Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gray's bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Gray's soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Grayish carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Great Basin bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Great black waspDeep Cut85points
- Great carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Great Feather-tongue-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Great flowerbud coralDeep Cut85points
- Great freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Great lakes jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Great Plains Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Great river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Great Sea PenDeep Cut85points
- Great star coralDeep Cut85points
- Great stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Great tooth hydroidDeep 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.