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
- Mallee wood scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Mallow LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Maltese honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Maluti docile scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Maluti painted lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Mammilated EuniceaDeep Cut85points
- Mammoth scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Mandapam aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Mandapam eubranchusDeep Cut85points
- MandiDeep Cut85points
- Mandibular Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Maned sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Manee's NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove lace coralDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove stonefishDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove twig antDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove upside-down jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Mann's anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Manto Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Many-flowered carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Many-ribbed jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Many-tentacled sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Māori masked beeDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo River stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Marauder antDeep Cut85points
- Marble coneDeep Cut85points
- Marble jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Marbled jellyDeep Cut85points
- Marbled scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Marbled stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Marbled whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Marcus' aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Marenzeller's stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Margined blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Margined BrowntailDeep Cut85points
- Margined Sea LizardDeep Cut85points
- Margined Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Maria Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mariana Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Maricopa harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Marin County Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Marion's acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Mariposa Lily ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Maritime Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Maritime NesocolletesDeep Cut85points
- MarlinspikeDeep 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.