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
- Koschevnikov's Honey BeeDeep Cut85points
- Koshewnikov's big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Kraepelin's scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kraepelin's thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kranspoort rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Krockow's thief antDeep Cut85points
- Krug's Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Kulkulcan coneDeep Cut85points
- Kumlutas' scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kunene Kaoko scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Kurohara's ConeDeep Cut85points
- La Plata anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Labyrinth rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Labyrinth spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Lace coralDeep Cut85points
- Lace lettuce coralDeep Cut85points
- Lacertine Turret-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Lachrymose Thick-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Lacy scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Lady GodivaDeep Cut85points
- Laetan Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lagoon JellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Lake Merritt cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Lake Tanganyika jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Lamarck's sheet coralDeep Cut85points
- Lamington urchinDeep Cut85points
- Lanai Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lanzarote LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Lanzhou Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lapland Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Larch Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Large baeolidiaDeep Cut85points
- Large bear-clawed nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Large black-bellied mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Large brown timid antDeep Cut85points
- Large ectemniusDeep Cut85points
- Large flower coralDeep Cut85points
- Large four-spotted scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Large gorse mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Large Green SlugDeep Cut85points
- Large hotrod antDeep Cut85points
- Large imported big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Large indigo mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Large ivory coralDeep Cut85points
- Large knobby bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Large meadow mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Large Monarda Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Large pollen waspDeep Cut85points
- Large sallow mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Large scabious mining 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.