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
- Mojave Twilight BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mole cricket hunterDeep Cut85points
- Mole mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Moloka'i leather coralDeep Cut85points
- Molokaʻi cauliflower coralDeep Cut85points
- Molucca coneDeep Cut85points
- Mombasa lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Momo coralDeep Cut85points
- Monasteria microporous coralDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Monk LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Monkey rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Mono antDeep Cut85points
- Monstrous MinerDeep Cut85points
- Montana Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Montane Eurasian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Montastrea coralDeep Cut85points
- Monterey dunes scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Montezuma LonghornDeep Cut85points
- MontiporaDeep Cut85points
- Moon Long-horned Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Moonglow anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Moorish sneaking antDeep Cut85points
- Mopane scorpionDeep Cut85points
- MorbakkaDeep Cut85points
- Morelet's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Morice's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Morning Glory Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Morris' big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Morrison bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Morrison's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Morro Bay aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Moseley's fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Moseleya coralDeep Cut85points
- Moss carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Mottled cup moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Mottled eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Mottled scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Mottled yellow-spot rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Mount ChimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Mount Shasta Sheep MothDeep Cut85points
- Mountain antDeep Cut85points
- Mountain cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Mountain Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mountain harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Mountain mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Mountainous star coralDeep Cut85points
- Mournful Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mournful waspDeep 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.