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
- Gregarious Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Grey Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Grey rugged ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Grey sea fan black coralDeep Cut85points
- Grey yellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Grey-backed mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Grey-banded mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Grey-gastered mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Grey-patched mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Grey-tailed furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Griffin's sheep moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Grimaldi's black coralDeep Cut85points
- Grinnell's Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Griswold's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Grizzled tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Grohmann's Yellow-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Groove-faced MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Groove-faced mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Groove-fronted MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Groove-headed fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Groovebelly stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Grooved brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Grooved crust coralDeep Cut85points
- Grooved sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Grooved-blade sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Grote's buck moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Grote's tussock moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- ground cherry sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Ground-cherry Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Grubauer's carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Guadalupe rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Guadeloupe Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gualán carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Guam scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Guatemalan carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Guatemalan YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Guaymas ConeDeep Cut85points
- Guernsey nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Guest antDeep Cut85points
- Guiler's stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Guinean stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Guinean weeverDeep Cut85points
- Gulf chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Coast buck moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Coast Evening BeeDeep Cut85points
- Gulf gurnard scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Gulf rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Gunning's rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Günther's waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Gurnard lionfishDeep 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.