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
- Northern colletes beeDeep Cut85points
- Northern fungus farming antDeep Cut85points
- Northern mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Northern Pine Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Northern Red-Banded YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Northern Rotund-Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Northern scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Northern scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Northern sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Northern sea nettleDeep Cut85points
- Northern star coralDeep Cut85points
- Northern stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Northern thin antDeep Cut85points
- Northern twig-nesting thief antDeep Cut85points
- Northern white-tailed bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Norton's NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Norwegian Cuckoo Bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Norwegian WaspDeep Cut85points
- Noslit scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Notch-backed Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Notched collared antDeep Cut85points
- Nova Scotia Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Nude Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Nussatella coneDeep Cut85points
- Nut ConeDeep Cut85points
- Nuttall's Sheep MothDeep Cut85points
- Nycthemeral MinerDeep Cut85points
- Nymph jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Nymph paper waspDeep Cut85points
- O'Farrell's Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Oak coneDeep Cut85points
- Oak mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Oaten pipes hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Oaxacan Bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Oaxacan WaspwingDeep Cut85points
- ObeliaDeep Cut85points
- Obese coneDeep Cut85points
- Obfuscated LymantriaDeep Cut85points
- Oblique Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Oblique Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Obliterated Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Obliterated NomadDeep Cut85points
- Oblong Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Oblong Woolcarder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Obscuratan yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Obscure bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Obscure coneDeep Cut85points
- Obscure Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Obtuse Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Obtuse MonkeyDeep 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.