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
- Jasper coneDeep Cut85points
- Java rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Java stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Javan honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Javan whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Javanese cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Jeffrey's Bay ConeDeep Cut85points
- Jenkin's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Jenkins' whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Jersey mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Jessica's Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Jet-tailed Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Jewel anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Jewel box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Jewel jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Jewel stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Jeweled MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Jickeli’s ConeDeep Cut85points
- JimbleDeep Cut85points
- Joergensen's Pearly-Cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Johansen's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Johnson's bubblegum coralDeep Cut85points
- Johnson's precious coralDeep Cut85points
- Johnson's SphecodesDeep Cut85points
- Johnston's balloon eolisDeep Cut85points
- Joker coralDeep Cut85points
- Joker Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Joker's boomerang coralDeep Cut85points
- Jones's creeper scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Jordan's chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Jordan's red deepwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Jorge's soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Joséphine's tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Jumping jack antDeep Cut85points
- Juno BuckmothDeep Cut85points
- Junod's carrion Pharaoh antDeep Cut85points
- Kabátek's thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kadlec's scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kaibab Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Kalahari burrowerDeep Cut85points
- Kalahari thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kalmia Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Kansas Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Karoo Big Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Karoo burrowerDeep Cut85points
- Karpathos scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kashmir Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Katherine's Metallic-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Katydid waspDeep Cut85points
- Kauai Yellow-faced 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.