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
- Pedernales Emperor Buck MothDeep Cut85points
- Pedernales Rusty Buck MothDeep Cut85points
- Peeters' smooth ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Pelagic scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Pelagic sea-anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Pelagic stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Pele Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pelecinid waspDeep Cut85points
- Pellucid Evening BeeDeep Cut85points
- Peloponnesian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Penang Forest-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Penang Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pencil coralDeep Cut85points
- Peninsular black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Peninsular burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Peninsular mud-dauber waspDeep Cut85points
- Peppered Flower-loving Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Peppered rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Perennial Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Perforator CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Pergande's acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Pergande's mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Pergande's thief antDeep Cut85points
- Peridot Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Peringuey's burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Perkin's Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Perkins' mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Perkins's yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Perplexed Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Perplexing Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Perplexing NomadDeep Cut85points
- Perplexing Rotund-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Persian BumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Perspicuan yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Petulant Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Phacelia Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Phacelia ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Pheasant-tail hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Philippine Black Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Philippine coneDeep Cut85points
- Philippine giant honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Philippine Honey BeeDeep Cut85points
- Philippine HornetDeep Cut85points
- Phoenix aeolidDeep 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.