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
- Outer-hermit sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Oval cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Oval mushroom coralDeep Cut85points
- Oval-headed Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ovambo thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Owston's ChimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Owyhee harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Paahaumaa NesocolletesDeep Cut85points
- PachyserisDeep Cut85points
- Pacific burrowing waspDeep Cut85points
- Pacific chupareDeep Cut85points
- Pacific chupare whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Pacific cicada killerDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Coast Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Pacific cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Dune-diggerDeep Cut85points
- Pacific eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Pacific elkhorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Pacific flowerbud coralDeep Cut85points
- Pacific longnose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Pacific red tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Pacific sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Sea PenDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pacific tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Pacific velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Pacific whiptail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Pacific WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Packer’s cellophane-cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Packer's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Paddlenose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Pagoda coneDeep Cut85points
- Pagoda coralDeep Cut85points
- Painted apple mothDeep Cut85points
- Painted balloon aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Painted burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Painted CallomelittaDeep Cut85points
- Painted Cup MothDeep Cut85points
- Painted lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Painted Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Painted mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Painted nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Painted Oil-digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Painted Pine MothDeep Cut85points
- Painted-Dark BeeDeep Cut85points
- Paladin coneDeep Cut85points
- Palau Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Pale anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Pale Carder 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.