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
- Orange-horned tarantula hawkDeep Cut85points
- Orange-legged Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-legged Combed-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-legged furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-legged Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-shouldered Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted NanucaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Orange-striped green anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tailed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tailed NomadDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tailed Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Orange-thighed LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tip cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tipped Austral-Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tipped Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tipped Wood-diggerDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tipped WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Orange-vented mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-winged LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Orange-winged Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Orangespot CratenaDeep Cut85points
- Orb carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Orbicular VelvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Organ pipe mud dauberDeep Cut85points
- Oriental hornetDeep Cut85points
- Oriental mothDeep Cut85points
- Oriental mud-dauber waspDeep Cut85points
- Oriental three striped satin mothDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco discus stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Orion ConeDeep Cut85points
- Ornate austraeolisDeep Cut85points
- Ornate CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Ornate cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Ornate eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Ornate flabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ornate MinerDeep Cut85points
- Ornate mustache antDeep Cut85points
- ornate red sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Ornate tailed digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Ornate VelvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Oromian thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Oscar's cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Osiriform Digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Ostrich plume hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Otavi Kaoko scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Otomi LonghornDeep 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.