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
- Nasal Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Nason's andrenaDeep Cut85points
- Nason's Slug MothDeep Cut85points
- Nasute Dark BeeDeep Cut85points
- Natal anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Natal cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Natal ConeDeep Cut85points
- Natal droptail antDeep Cut85points
- Natal golden cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Natal slender antDeep Cut85points
- Navajo Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Navigating big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Nayarit scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Neat aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Neat MasonDeep Cut85points
- Nebraska CalliopsisDeep Cut85points
- Necklace coneDeep Cut85points
- Needle Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Needle-spined urchinDeep Cut85points
- Needle-waisted Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Neff's Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Neglected Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Neglected scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Neighborly AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Neighborly NomadDeep Cut85points
- Neon cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Neon NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Neptune coneDeep Cut85points
- Net coralDeep Cut85points
- Net fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Netted coneDeep Cut85points
- Netted Slug caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Neumoegen's BuckmothDeep Cut85points
- Nevada acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Nevada buck mothDeep Cut85points
- Nevada bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Nevada Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Nevada Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Nevada NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Nevada Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- New England BuckmothDeep Cut85points
- New Mexico acorn antDeep Cut85points
- New Mexico Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- New Mexico Io MothDeep Cut85points
- New World banded thynnid waspDeep Cut85points
- New Zealand mason waspDeep Cut85points
- New Zealand Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Newberry's leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Newland's rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Nice Cuckoo Nomad 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.