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
- Great yellow bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Great-banded furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Greater Antillean carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Greater banded hornetDeep Cut85points
- Greater Bindweed BeeDeep Cut85points
- Greater brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Greater moon jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Greater sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Greater sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- greater sea penDeep Cut85points
- Greater weeverDeep Cut85points
- Greek honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Greek Paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Green balloon aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Green carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Green cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Green eyed cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Green Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Green hydraDeep Cut85points
- Green Metallic Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Green oak slug caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Green orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Green rice moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Green robustaDeep Cut85points
- Green sea matDeep Cut85points
- Green small carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Green Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Green solitary coralDeep Cut85points
- Green staghorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Green star polypDeep Cut85points
- Green torchDeep Cut85points
- Green ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-gold Nomia BeeDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-orange CorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Green-backed StingareeDeep Cut85points
- Green-bellied miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Green-bellied Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Green-eyed flower beeDeep Cut85points
- Green-spotted jellyDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Green-tinted miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Green-winged Bamboo-CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Greenback stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Greenblotched rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Greenhouse fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Greenland sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Greenspotted rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Greenstripe rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Gregarious 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.