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
- Gurnard scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Gwynne's mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Gypsy cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Haacke's burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Habu jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Haddon's anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Haeckel's jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Hag antDeep Cut85points
- Hag moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Hair net black coralDeep Cut85points
- Hairpin ChilicolaDeep Cut85points
- Hairy big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Hairy curltail antDeep Cut85points
- Hairy jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Hairy Mopane WormDeep Cut85points
- Hairy mushroom anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hairy panther antDeep Cut85points
- Hairy rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Hairy sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Hairy scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Hairy sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Hairy Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Hairy yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-bellied thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-belted miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-footed flower beeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-footed leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-footed scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-fronted Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-headed acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-headed slug caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-horned Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-saddled colletes beeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-snouted mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-tailed Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-tailed resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Haitian Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Hakunamatata's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Haleakala Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Half-banded MinerDeep Cut85points
- Half-belted blue-black spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Half-black bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Half-green Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Half-red longhorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Half-red Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Halictoid MinerDeep Cut85points
- Halomitra coralDeep Cut85points
- Hamann's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Hamann's FlabellinaDeep 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.