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
- Red bartsia blunthorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Red bull antDeep Cut85points
- Red canary islands harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Red cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Red cross jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Red curltail antDeep Cut85points
- Red dead men's fingersDeep Cut85points
- Red Deepwater ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Red desert fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Red driver antDeep Cut85points
- Red droptail antDeep Cut85points
- Red fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Red flowerhead polypDeep Cut85points
- Red gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Red Green AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Red Gurnard ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Red hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Red imported fire antDeep Cut85points
- Red paper lantern jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Red paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Red pavement antDeep Cut85points
- Red polyp octocoralDeep Cut85points
- Red rock sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Red RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Red Rope CoralDeep Cut85points
- Red scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea coneDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea crown-of-thornsDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea Dwarf LionfishDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea fire urchinDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea LionfishDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea StonefishDeep Cut85points
- Red sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Red Smooth ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Red speckled anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Red stickyhydroidDeep Cut85points
- Red StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Red stomphiaDeep Cut85points
- Red stone coralDeep Cut85points
- Red Streaked LaeliaDeep Cut85points
- Red Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Red velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Red warty anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Red whip coralDeep Cut85points
- Red-backed CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Red-Backed Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-backed mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Red-banded RedivivaDeep Cut85points
- Red-banded sand 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.