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
- Herald Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Herbst's CorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Herbst's Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- HermissendaDeep Cut85points
- Hermit anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hermit coralDeep Cut85points
- Hermit crab anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hermit crab zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Heron's Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Herringbone hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Hertwig's sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hewitt's Reed beeDeep Cut85points
- Hibiscus BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hickory orange antDeep Cut85points
- Hidalgo Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Hidden anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hidden cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Hidden lappet caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Hieroglyphic coneDeep Cut85points
- High Arctic bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- High country bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- High-spined commensal hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Highfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Highveld lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Hilaris Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hilgendorf's tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Hill Cuckoo Bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Hilo Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Himalayan Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Himalayan Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Himalayan giant honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Himalayan honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Hippotes's Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hirase's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Hirondelle black coralDeep Cut85points
- Hirsute Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hispaniolan Digger-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Histrionic Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hitchens's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hoary CladocerapisDeep Cut85points
- Hoary Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hoary Mortar BeeDeep Cut85points
- hoary sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Hoeksema's staghorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Hoelldobler's harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Hohmann's Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hohmann's LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Hohmann's Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Holly cellophane-cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Holm's burrowing 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.