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
- Indian eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Indian Epaulette-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Indian forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Indian Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Indian harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Indian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Indian jumping antDeep Cut85points
- Indian measled snail-anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Indian Ocean aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Indian orange acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Indian paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Indian queenless antDeep Cut85points
- Indian Sea plumeDeep Cut85points
- Indigo Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Indiscriminate cuckoo bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Indolent antDeep Cut85points
- Indomalayan Armoured-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Indomalayan Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Inept cuckoo nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Inept Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- inflated sea penDeep Cut85points
- Ingolf zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Inland desert scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Inland robust scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Inornate cellophane-cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Inquiline Cuckoo-Masked beeDeep Cut85points
- Inquisitive Monkey caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Insignis Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate creeping scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate valley coralDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted coneDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted Digger-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted XeromelectaDeep Cut85points
- Intrepid Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Intricate fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Io moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Ionic cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Irene's AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Iridescent cockroach-hunter waspDeep Cut85points
- Iridescent firewormDeep Cut85points
- Iridescent NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Iris Eyed Silkmoth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Irisan Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Irregular boomerang coralDeep Cut85points
- Irregular Sweat BeeDeep 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.