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
- Pitted stonefishDeep Cut85points
- Placid Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Plain dark beeDeep Cut85points
- Plain miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Plain pygmy-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Planar hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Planed Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Plasterer beeDeep Cut85points
- Plasterer-like miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Plate AcroporaDeep Cut85points
- Plate coralDeep Cut85points
- Plate fire coralDeep Cut85points
- Plated Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Plating AcroporaDeep Cut85points
- Player scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Pleasant beewolfDeep Cut85points
- Pleasing Metallic-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Plerogyra coralDeep Cut85points
- Plownose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Plum-slugDeep Cut85points
- Plume hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Plume-vented Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Plumed hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Plumed MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Plumed scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Plumose anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Plumose LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Poey's furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Poey's Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Pointed Pencil CoralDeep Cut85points
- Pointed Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pointed-nose stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Pointy-nosed blue chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Pointynose blue ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Poker star montiporaDeep Cut85points
- Polar bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Polished Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- Polished ChilicolaDeep Cut85points
- Polished-faced MasonDeep Cut85points
- Polka dot waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Pollen WaspDeep Cut85points
- Polyp aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Pom pom xeniaDeep Cut85points
- Pom-pom anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Pomegranate aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Pomona LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Ponape rainbow acroDeep Cut85points
- Pontificial ConeDeep Cut85points
- Pony antDeep Cut85points
- Poorman's ConeDeep 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.