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
- Medusa anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Mekong freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Melancholy black waspDeep Cut85points
- Melanothrix yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Melliss's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Mendicant NomadDeep Cut85points
- Merauke stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Merian's Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Meridional Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Mertens' sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Merulina coralDeep Cut85points
- Meseda waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Mesilla Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mesilla Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mesquite Stinger MothDeep Cut85points
- Messina rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Messor harvester antsDeep Cut85points
- Metallic big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Metallic blue sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Metallic Epauletted-Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Metallic Green Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Metallic trailing antDeep Cut85points
- meteor sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Metric Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Cuckoo-leaf-cutterDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Feather-tongue-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Feather-tongued BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mexican grass-carrying waspDeep Cut85points
- Mexican honey waspDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Michelbacher's beewolfDeep Cut85points
- Michener's Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Michener's Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Michener's Thick-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Michigan Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Michigan sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Micro zoasDeep Cut85points
- Micromussa coralDeep Cut85points
- Middle-striped Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Middlegap mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Midget stonefishDeep Cut85points
- Midnite beeDeep Cut85points
- Midwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Mighty Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mignonette red tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Mikmaq Little Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Milde's tarantula-hawk waspDeep Cut85points
- Military phidianaDeep 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.