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
- Hamar people's thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Hammer coralDeep Cut85points
- Hammer-tipped sea penDeep Cut85points
- Hancock's nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Handlirsch's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hanging stomach jellyDeep Cut85points
- Hanson's Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hantam burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Hardy leather coralDeep Cut85points
- Hardy Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Harmonius rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Harris' legionary antDeep Cut85points
- Harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Hat coralDeep Cut85points
- Havana coneDeep Cut85points
- Haviland's razorjaw antDeep Cut85points
- Haviland's timid antDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian Striated ConeDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian white-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hawequa burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Hawksbeard mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Hawthorn AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Hawthorn mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Haynes's Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hazy Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- hazy sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Head coralDeep Cut85points
- Healesville Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Healthy Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Heath bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Heath Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Heath sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Heather colletes beeDeep Cut85points
- Heather mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Hébert's deathstalkerDeep Cut85points
- Hebrew coneDeep Cut85points
- Hebrew deathstalkerDeep Cut85points
- Hedge carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Hedgehog coralDeep Cut85points
- Hedin's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hein's stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Heliotrope Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hell's fire anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Helmet jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Hemprich's brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Hentz striped 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.