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
- Milk Sea NettleDeep Cut85points
- Milky Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Milky TussockDeep Cut85points
- Millens' AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Miller hydractiniaDeep Cut85points
- Milwaukee AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Mimic Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mimic Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Minckley's sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Miner's Lettuce MinerDeep Cut85points
- Mini carpet anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Miniature aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Miniature trap-jaw antsDeep Cut85points
- Minnamurra coneDeep Cut85points
- Minnesota Hygienic beeDeep Cut85points
- minor cuckoo sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Minor scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Minshull's pygmy thicktailDeep Cut85points
- Minuscule Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Minute black waspDeep Cut85points
- Minute lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Minute ProtomorphaDeep Cut85points
- Misaki balloon aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Miserable AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Missouri acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Missouri Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mitchell's cellophane beeDeep Cut85points
- Mite-eating antsDeep Cut85points
- Miteless Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Miterlike coneDeep Cut85points
- Mitsukuri's LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Mixed orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Mixed VapourerDeep Cut85points
- Moapa Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mocamedes fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Mock-orange miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Mock-orange Scissor BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mocsary's Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Moderate Lettered Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Modest Cuckoo-leaf-cutterDeep Cut85points
- Modest Grass-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Modest Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Modest MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Modest Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Modest SharptailDeep Cut85points
- Moebius' Big AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Mojave dunes scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Mojave Gypsum BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mojave Mountain Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mojave Poppy 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.