Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Balloon jellyDeep Cut85points
- Baluchi Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Banana coralDeep Cut85points
- Banana jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Band-faced Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Band-footed Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Banded BagnestDeep Cut85points
- Banded Bead AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Banded beepirateDeep Cut85points
- Banded carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Banded caterpillar parasite waspDeep Cut85points
- Banded dark beeDeep Cut85points
- Banded eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Banded marble coneDeep Cut85points
- Banded Mud BeeDeep Cut85points
- Banded Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Banded sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Banded tube anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Banded tube-dwelling anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Banded whiptail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Bandfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Bandtail waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Banks' Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Banks' Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Banks' Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Banksia beeDeep Cut85points
- Banyan tussock mothDeep Cut85points
- Barabattoia coralDeep Cut85points
- Baraka's whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Barbara's Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Barbara's OreopasitesDeep Cut85points
- Barber's Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Barberry Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- BarbfishDeep Cut85points
- Barbut's cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Barchin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Bare mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Bare-bellied tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Bare-saddled blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Bare-saddled Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Barehead scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Barham miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Baroque cave coralDeep Cut85points
- Barr's Banded MinerDeep Cut85points
- Barred rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Barrel Cactus DufoureaDeep Cut85points
- Barrel cactus longhorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Barrel Cactus MacroteraDeep Cut85points
- Barrel Cactus WoodborerDeep 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.