Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Australian MellitidiaDeep Cut85points
- Australian no-line scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Australian Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Australian Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Australian rainforest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Australian red bull antDeep Cut85points
- Australian sawcheek scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Australian Small Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Australian spotted jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Australian WhiprayDeep Cut85points
- Australogyra coralDeep Cut85points
- Autumn Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Autumnal Cellophane-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Autumnal Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Avci's small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Awesome Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Axelrod's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Azalea Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Aztec AugochloraDeep Cut85points
- Aztec Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Aztec Cuckoo-Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Aztec Honey WaspDeep Cut85points
- Aztec mud-dauber waspDeep Cut85points
- Aztec Rotund-Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Baby bull antDeep Cut85points
- Babylonian augerDeep Cut85points
- Backwater butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Baer's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Baer's coneDeep Cut85points
- Bag-shelter moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Bahama coneDeep Cut85points
- Bahama Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bahamas ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Bahamian Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Bahia brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Lightbulb AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Bairstow's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Baja California bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Baja Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Baja Striped-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Baker's Phacelia-ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Bald Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bald thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Bald-faced hornetDeep Cut85points
- Bald-spot Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Balearic small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Bali green stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Bali shortcakeDeep Cut85points
- Balkan collared antDeep Cut85points
- Balkan scorpionDeep 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.