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
- Large scissor beeDeep Cut85points
- Large seed harvesting antDeep Cut85points
- Large shaggy beeDeep Cut85points
- Large sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Large squash beeDeep Cut85points
- Large star coralDeep Cut85points
- Large tiphiaDeep Cut85points
- Large yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- Large-bud hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Large-clawed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Large-eyed rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Large-polyped deep-sea soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Large-scaled scorpion fishDeep Cut85points
- Large-spined sea penDeep Cut85points
- Largebrain root coralDeep Cut85points
- Largehead scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Larger black sneaking antDeep Cut85points
- Larger knob coralDeep Cut85points
- Larger star coralDeep Cut85points
- Largespot river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Largilliert's coneDeep Cut85points
- Larrea XeromelectaDeep Cut85points
- Larson's jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Las cruces aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Las Vegas Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Late PotbeeDeep Cut85points
- Late-flying Hairy-Cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Lateral-spotted Yellow-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Lathbury's nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Latticed corkletDeep Cut85points
- Launceston LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence's burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Lawson's Reed BeeDeep Cut85points
- Leaden coneDeep Cut85points
- Leaden spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Leaf coralDeep Cut85points
- Leaf plate montiporaDeep Cut85points
- Leaf scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Leafy soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Least Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Least furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Least Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Least valley coralDeep Cut85points
- Leather anemoneDeep 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.