Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Barrel jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Barrel sea-penDeep Cut85points
- Barring scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Barthelemy's coneDeep Cut85points
- Barthelemy's Night HornetDeep Cut85points
- Bartsch's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Basal carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Basal Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Base-banded furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Basket coralDeep Cut85points
- Bat eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Bat rayDeep Cut85points
- Batwing moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Bay-tailed Volcano-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Bayan's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Beach Combed-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Beach Dune Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Beach MinerDeep Cut85points
- Beadlet anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Beaked stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Bean coralDeep Cut85points
- Bear-clawed nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Bearded big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Bearded carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Bearded firewormDeep Cut85points
- Bearded hotrod antDeep Cut85points
- Bearded NomadopsisDeep Cut85points
- Bearded scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Beardsley's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Beardtongue scraper beeDeep Cut85points
- Beaumont's AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful MinerDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful TownsendiellaDeep Cut85points
- Beck's desert scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Bee Balm Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bee Parasitizing waspDeep Cut85points
- Bee pirateDeep Cut85points
- Beebalm ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Beech coneDeep Cut85points
- Beetle grub parasitic waspDeep Cut85points
- BeewolfDeep Cut85points
- Beijing longhorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Beijing Rotund-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Beijing small mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Beijing Vested-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Belgica's hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bell hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bell 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.