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
- Occidental Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Occidental Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ocean Grove Metallic-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Ocellar CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Ocellate Eagle RayDeep Cut85points
- Ocellate river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Ocellate WhiprayDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated coralDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated LionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated Orange SpinefootDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Ocherous Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ochraceous Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ochraceous Chimney BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ochre scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Octamerous anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Octaradiate stalked jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Octopus coralDeep Cut85points
- Ocular coralDeep Cut85points
- Oenothera MinerDeep Cut85points
- Oertzen's harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Offshore RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Ogasawara dwarf lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Oil beeDeep Cut85points
- Okinawa LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Okinawa Mud WaspDeep Cut85points
- Okinawa Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Okinawan’s octocoral reef flowersDeep Cut85points
- Old World slender antsDeep Cut85points
- Old World tarantula-hawk waspDeep Cut85points
- Olivaceous AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Olive green wart anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Olive Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Olive lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Olive RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Olive-backed RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Oliver's Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Olivier's blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Olivier's Ground-CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Olympia Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Olympia Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Oman cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Omaria coneDeep Cut85points
- Ombrias Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Omnivorous Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- One armed jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- One Spot caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- One-banded Mason 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.