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
- Marloth's lesser thicktailDeep Cut85points
- Maroon anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Maroon Sponge ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Marques' freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Marquesas ConeDeep Cut85points
- Mars MothDeep Cut85points
- Marsham's nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Martinique Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Marvelous NeopasiphaeDeep Cut85points
- Mary's collared antDeep Cut85points
- Mascarene ConeDeep Cut85points
- Masked rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Massive starlet coralDeep Cut85points
- Masson Pine MothDeep Cut85points
- Mat zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Matabele antDeep Cut85points
- Matchless ConeDeep Cut85points
- Matilda's Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Matopos Flat rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Matroosberg cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Maui yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Max cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Mayan ConeDeep Cut85points
- Mayflower Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mayr's lesser trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Maze brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Maze coralDeep Cut85points
- Maze rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Maze's coneDeep Cut85points
- Mazuch's thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- McAdam's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- McCosker's no-line scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- McKay's Western Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- McMurrich's anemoneDeep Cut85points
- McPeak anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Meadow Parsnip Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Meadowfoam MinerDeep Cut85points
- Mealy Metallic-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Median honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Median waspDeep Cut85points
- Medina's AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean Beadlet AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean cerianthidDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean checkered scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean flabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean sea-fingersDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean wood-boring beeDeep 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.