Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Asian blue forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Asian bush scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Asian chilli-tail beeDeep Cut85points
- Asian forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Asian marauder antDeep Cut85points
- Asian moon jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Asian needle antDeep Cut85points
- Asian Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Asian Shaggy Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Asian Small-WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Asian Spongy MothDeep Cut85points
- Assassin caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Assimilated Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Aster Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Aster Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- AstreoporaDeep Cut85points
- Atamisqui carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Athabasca Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Athenarian burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Athletic Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Atkinson's acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic beaded anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic black coralDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Box JellyDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Encrusting ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic knife-nose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic mushroom coralDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic sea nettleDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Atlas mammoth waspDeep Cut85points
- Atolla jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Attenborough's Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Atwood's DialictusDeep Cut85points
- Atwood's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Auburn Flower-loving Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Aureus ConeDeep Cut85points
- Auriferous Green Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Aurora anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Aurora rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Austere sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Austin's coneDeep Cut85points
- Austral ConeDeep Cut85points
- Australian butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Australian cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Australian eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Australian ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Australian jumper antDeep 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.