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
- Popeyed scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Poppy beeDeep Cut85points
- Porcelain coralDeep Cut85points
- Porcupine freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Porcupine river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Porcupine sakuraeolisDeep Cut85points
- Porcupine whiprayDeep Cut85points
- PoritesDeep Cut85points
- Poritipora coralDeep Cut85points
- Porous cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Porous False PlexauraDeep Cut85points
- Porous leaf coralDeep Cut85points
- Porous lettuce coralDeep Cut85points
- Porous sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Porous star coralDeep Cut85points
- Porter's Cuckoo Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Porter's Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Porter's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Porter's Wool-carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Porthole antDeep Cut85points
- Poseidon's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Poss's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Potter flower beeDeep Cut85points
- Potter spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Potter waspDeep Cut85points
- Pourtales fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Pourtalès's lace hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Prairie YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Pratt's Nama-ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Precious Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Predaceous aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Prefect ConeDeep Cut85points
- Prelate coneDeep Cut85points
- Pretty cave coralDeep Cut85points
- Pretty-legged Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Prickly anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Prickly CeratinaDeep Cut85points
- Prickly pear goblin beeDeep Cut85points
- Prickly sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Prickly-pear Angled-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Prickly-poppy AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Prickly-poppy Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Prickly-pored coralDeep Cut85points
- Primrose-spotted Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Prince ConeDeep Cut85points
- Princely coneDeep Cut85points
- Princely Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Privet Monkey MothDeep Cut85points
- Produced Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Prolific coralDeep 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.