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
- Mourning beeDeep Cut85points
- Mourning bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Mourning Mimic-Oil beeDeep Cut85points
- Mouse coneDeep Cut85points
- Mozambique ConeDeep Cut85points
- Mozambique rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Mozambique scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Mozambique thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Mrs Burry's coneDeep Cut85points
- Mud sagartiaDeep Cut85points
- Mud-nesting spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Mueller's LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Mueller's Sea PansyDeep Cut85points
- Muir's Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Muller's thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Multicoloured sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Multispine giant stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Mumburarr whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Municipal TussockDeep Cut85points
- Murray's sea penDeep Cut85points
- Muscleman tree antDeep Cut85points
- Muscular antsDeep Cut85points
- Mushroom anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Mushroom cap jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Mushroom scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Music coneDeep Cut85points
- Mustard branched coralDeep Cut85points
- Mustard hill coralDeep Cut85points
- Mustard Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Musty BumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Mutable Hairy-eyed Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mutatan Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mycedium coralDeep Cut85points
- Myers' Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Mylonas' small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Naked Ear AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Namaqua burrowerDeep Cut85points
- Namaqua rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Namib rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Namib thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Namocanus coneDeep Cut85points
- Nanina Oak-Slug MothDeep Cut85points
- Nansei Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Nanus ConeDeep Cut85points
- Naples aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-bodied sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-gutted house antDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-legged miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Narrowtail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Naru eagle rayDeep 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.