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
- Livid coneDeep Cut85points
- Liza's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Lobe coralDeep Cut85points
- Lobe-fronted antDeep Cut85points
- Lobe-jawed rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Lobe-spurred furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Lobed anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Lobed cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Lobed Leather-CoralDeep Cut85points
- lobed mason waspDeep Cut85points
- Lobed star coralDeep Cut85points
- Lobed stingareeDeep Cut85points
- LobophylliaDeep Cut85points
- LobophytumDeep Cut85points
- Loefling's beewolfDeep Cut85points
- Lonely AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Long sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Long tailed stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Long tentacle anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Long tentacle plate coralDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Long-faced Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Long-faced furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-faced miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-faced Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Long-finned waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Long-flowered bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Long-fringed miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-fringed mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-headed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Long-horned beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-horned digger resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-horned nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-horned Slug MothDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged Oil BeeDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Hairy-eyed-sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-plumed Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Long-spined acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Long-spined sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Long-spined tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Long-spined waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed BombyxDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Giant-Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Long-tentacled anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Long-waisted Honey WaspDeep 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.