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
- Pale footed black waspDeep Cut85points
- Pale ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Pale jawed spiny digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Pale leafcutting beeDeep Cut85points
- Pale Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Pale whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Pale-edged stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Pale-faced miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Pale-fovea MinerDeep Cut85points
- Pale-marked Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pale-spot whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Pale-tailed mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Pale-thorax Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Paler-tailed thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Pallid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pallid big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Pallid HabropodaDeep Cut85points
- Pallid thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Pallid twig antDeep Cut85points
- Pallisade coneDeep Cut85points
- Palm bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Palm Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Palm Plume-vented BeeDeep Cut85points
- Palmate Giant-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- palmate sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Palmer's EuniceaDeep Cut85points
- PalythoaDeep Cut85points
- Panama MothDeep Cut85points
- Panamic stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Pancake rayDeep Cut85points
- Pancake star coralDeep Cut85points
- Panda antDeep Cut85points
- Panda sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Pandora PinemothDeep Cut85points
- Pango LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Pantaloon beeDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Panther antDeep Cut85points
- Pantropical wolf antDeep Cut85points
- Panzer's nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Papilla ConeDeep Cut85points
- Papillose cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Papuan scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Parallel Beautiful-Masked beeDeep Cut85points
- Parallel Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Parallel-spine scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Parallel-striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Parametric Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Parana River stingrayDeep Cut85points
- PararamaDeep 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.