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
- Keehua LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Keel Dark Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Keilands burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kellogg's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- kelp-rose anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Kenya tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Kenyan deathstalkerDeep Cut85points
- Keyhole WaspDeep Cut85points
- Keys bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kidney-stained miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Kimio's coneDeep Cut85points
- Kincaid's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Kincaid's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Kindred Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- King MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- King of waspsDeep Cut85points
- Kings coralDeep Cut85points
- Kinoshita's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Kinzelbach's scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kiowa PerditaDeep Cut85points
- Kirby's nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Kirby's Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Kissing Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Klem's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Kluane Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Klug's velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Knerer's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Knob coralDeep Cut85points
- Knob-fronted Cuckoo-Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Knob-headed Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Knob-lipped Metallic-Cuckoo-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Knobbly anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Knobbly zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Knobby anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Knobby brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Knobby cactus coralDeep Cut85points
- knobby candelabraDeep Cut85points
- Knobby Finger CoralDeep Cut85points
- Knobby sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Knobby sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Knobby star coralDeep Cut85points
- Knobby zoanthideanDeep Cut85points
- Knotted fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Knotted thread hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Knuth's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Koehn lake scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kona Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Korean Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Korean Cuckoo Bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Korean YellowjacketDeep 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.