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
- Luminescent parazoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Luminescent zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Lumpy rice coralDeep Cut85points
- Luna lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Luna LymantriaDeep Cut85points
- Lunate Longhorn-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lunate TussockDeep Cut85points
- Lupine Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lusitanian cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Lusk's PinemothDeep Cut85points
- Lutescent Metallic-Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Luteus coneDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Luzon Scimitar BeeDeep Cut85points
- Lynx NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Lyonia Blunt-hornDeep Cut85points
- Macadamia Cup MothDeep Cut85points
- MacAndrew's stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Mace coneDeep Cut85points
- Macedonian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- MacGregor's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Macleay's spurillaDeep Cut85points
- Macoupin County miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Macoupin County sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Macropis Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Maculate LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Maculate stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Maculated cuckoo carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Madagascar honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Madamango sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Madeira butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Madeira freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Madeira rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Madeiran Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Magellan's encrusting soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Magistrate ConeDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent urchinDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Magretti's cautious antDeep Cut85points
- Magus coneDeep Cut85points
- Maidstone mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Maine Blueberry BeeDeep Cut85points
- Majano anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Makiling Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Malacca coneDeep Cut85points
- Malay NomadDeep Cut85points
- Maldive 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.