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
- Long-waisted Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Long's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Longclaw lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Longfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Longfin velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Longfingered scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Longhead yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Longheaded eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Longhorn AustraeolisDeep Cut85points
- Longhorn-cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Longjaw rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Longnose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Longnose eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Longnose marbled stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Longnose Pacific stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Longnose stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Longsnout butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Longsnout no-line scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Longsnout scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Longsnout weedy scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Longspine channel rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Longspine chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Longspine scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Longspine sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Longtail round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Longtail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Loose spiral hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Loosestrife BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lophelia coralDeep Cut85points
- Lorna's burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- lost sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Lot's WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Lotus Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Louis's club-horned cuckoo waspDeep Cut85points
- Louisa's Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Louisiana eyed silkmothDeep Cut85points
- Louisiana Painted-Dark beeDeep Cut85points
- Louisiana pygmy snapping antDeep Cut85points
- Loveable LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Lovely coneDeep Cut85points
- Lovely-horned Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lovely-tailed LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Low-relief lettuce coralDeep Cut85points
- Lowfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Lowridge cactus coralDeep Cut85points
- Lowveld Flat rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Lowveld house antDeep Cut85points
- Lucerne banded-shortface beeDeep Cut85points
- Lucifer beeDeep Cut85points
- Lucky’s mustache antDeep 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.