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
- Phosphorescent sea penDeep Cut85points
- Pickerelweed Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pickerelweed ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Picket-boring aphid waspDeep Cut85points
- Pictus catfishDeep Cut85points
- Pied Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pierce's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Pigmented Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pillage antDeep Cut85points
- Pillar tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Pillow coralDeep Cut85points
- Pima harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Pimpled aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Pimply burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Pin Cushion Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Pin-spotted spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Pin-striped Vermilion Slug MothDeep Cut85points
- Pine Brown-tail MothDeep Cut85points
- Pine coralDeep Cut85points
- Pine furrowed antDeep Cut85points
- Pine tree acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Pine tussock mothDeep Cut85points
- Pine-tree LappetDeep Cut85points
- Pineapple coralDeep Cut85points
- Pinewood mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Pink branching hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Pink branching lace hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Pink bubblegum coralDeep Cut85points
- Pink clonal anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Pink coryphellaDeep Cut85points
- Pink gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Pink helmetDeep Cut85points
- Pink LymantriaDeep Cut85points
- Pink Lymantria MothDeep Cut85points
- Pink meanieDeep Cut85points
- Pink rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Pink sea fingersDeep Cut85points
- Pink sea penDeep Cut85points
- Pink soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Pink whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Pink-tip AcroporaDeep Cut85points
- Pinkmouth hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Pinkrose rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Pinnate spiny sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Pinocchio cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Pinpoint ConeDeep Cut85points
- Piper's Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pit-jawed antDeep Cut85points
- Pitch-black collared antDeep Cut85points
- Pitted Mason WaspDeep 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.