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
- Leather coralDeep Cut85points
- Leather urchinDeep Cut85points
- Leather-soft mushroomDeep Cut85points
- Leathery anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Leathery Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Leavitt's Armored-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Lederhosen MothDeep Cut85points
- Legionary antsDeep Cut85points
- Lehigh Gap Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Leichhardt's velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Leidy's burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Lemon cuckoo bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- lemonglass coneDeep Cut85points
- lemonsnap coneDeep Cut85points
- Leopard chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Leopard coneDeep Cut85points
- Leopard round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Leopard whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Leptospermum Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lessa's butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Antillean bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Asian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Bindweed BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lesser brown scorpionDeep Cut85points
- lesser butterfly coneDeep Cut85points
- Lesser butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Lesser horn coralDeep Cut85points
- Lesser knob coralDeep Cut85points
- Lesser mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Lesser red masked beeDeep Cut85points
- Lesser scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Lesser sneaking antDeep Cut85points
- Lesser speckled cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Lesser star coralDeep Cut85points
- Lesser starlet coralDeep Cut85points
- Lesser stripetail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Lesser valley coralDeep Cut85points
- Lesser weeverDeep Cut85points
- Lesser-scaled cockatoo waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Lesvos small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Lettered coneDeep Cut85points
- Lettuce coralDeep Cut85points
- Levaillant's trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Lewin's bag-shelter mothDeep Cut85points
- Lewis’ pygmy snapping antDeep Cut85points
- Lichen coralDeep Cut85points
- Lieftinck's CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Lieftinck's Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Lienard's coneDeep 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.