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
- Islamic jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Island aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Isocoma MinerDeep Cut85points
- Israeli black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Israeli gold scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Israeli scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Itaituba river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Italian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Italian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Ivell's Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Ivette's AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Ivory coneDeep Cut85points
- Ivory stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Ivory Tree CoralDeep Cut85points
- ivory tube coralDeep Cut85points
- Ivy beeDeep Cut85points
- Ivy Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Iwata's Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Izu scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Izu stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Jack jumper antDeep Cut85points
- Jacket Flower-loving Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Jacob's Ladder MinerDeep Cut85points
- Jalisco coast scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Jalisco White-Tipped Guardian WaspDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Jan Mayen sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Jankowskyi's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Janus coneDeep Cut85points
- Japan AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Japanese blue mud-dauber waspDeep Cut85points
- Japanese butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Deep Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Japanese eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Japanese hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Japanese lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Japanese LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Pantaloon BeeDeep Cut85points
- Japanese pavement antDeep Cut85points
- Japanese queenless antDeep Cut85points
- Japanese red stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Japanese sea nettleDeep Cut85points
- Japanese shortspined scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Japanese spotted ratfishDeep Cut85points
- Japanese thief antDeep Cut85points
- Japanese velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Jason's nudibranchDeep 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.