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
- Humble club coralDeep Cut85points
- Hump coralDeep Cut85points
- Hump-backed beewolfDeep Cut85points
- Humpback coralDeep Cut85points
- Humpback waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Humpbacked scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Hunchback scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Hunt's bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Hunter's Cuckoo-leaf-cutterDeep Cut85points
- Hunter's Little Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Hyacinth Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hyatt's big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Hybrid imported fire antDeep Cut85points
- HydroidDeep Cut85points
- hydroid zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Hyena ConeDeep Cut85points
- Hylaeiform Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hyleoides wasp-mimic beeDeep Cut85points
- Iberian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Ice fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Icy Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Illinois Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Illinois Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Illinois Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Illinois Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Illustrated Woolcarder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Illustrious ConeDeep Cut85points
- Imbricate Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Imbricate Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Imitating ground beeDeep Cut85points
- Imitator Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Immigrant pavement antDeep Cut85points
- Imperial anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Imperial coneDeep Cut85points
- Imperial Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Imperial Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Impunctate Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Impunctate miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Inch antDeep Cut85points
- Incomplete furrowed antDeep Cut85points
- Incomplete Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Incubating anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Indian Armoured Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Indian big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Indian black honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Indian black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Indian CaloriaDeep 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.