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
- Prong-faced Slender-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Protea SlugDeep Cut85points
- Protuberance Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Provancher's guest antDeep Cut85points
- Pruinose Squash BeeDeep Cut85points
- Prunus Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- PsammocoraDeep Cut85points
- Pseudoponera wolf antDeep Cut85points
- Puang Reed BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pubescent Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pueblo Sandstone-digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Puerto Rican digger-cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Pugnaceous aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Pugnacious burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Pugnacious Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Pulsating XenidDeep Cut85points
- Pulse coralDeep Cut85points
- Pumpkin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Punctate Central Florida Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Punctate furrowed antDeep Cut85points
- Punctate Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Punctate Wool-carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Puntland scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Purbeck mason waspDeep Cut85points
- Purbeck nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Pure Green Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Purgatory moth-waspDeep Cut85points
- Purple Acropora coralDeep Cut85points
- Purple bullseyeDeep Cut85points
- Purple chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Purple coneDeep Cut85points
- Purple crown jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Purple Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Purple eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Purple gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Purple ladyDeep Cut85points
- Purple lettuce coralDeep Cut85points
- Purple nanaDeep Cut85points
- Purple rice coralDeep Cut85points
- Purple sea pansyDeep Cut85points
- Purple sea plumeDeep Cut85points
- Purple soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Purple tip anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Purple-crested Slug MothDeep Cut85points
- Purple-red flabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Purple-tailed Hairy-eyed-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Purple-tipped AcroporaDeep Cut85points
- Purple-winged Bamboo-CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Puss caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Puzzled 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.