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-banded wasp-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Red-banded YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Red-bellied MinerDeep Cut85points
- Red-bellied TownsendiellaDeep Cut85points
- Red-belted bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-black cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Red-blotched river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Red-clawed emperor scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Red-dot EuproctisDeep Cut85points
- Red-eye medusaDeep Cut85points
- Red-eyed Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-faced miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Red-Faced WeeverDeep Cut85points
- Red-feather Dauber BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-finger aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Red-footed Cellophane-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Red-Footed Cuckoo Leaf-Cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-footed Cuckoo-leaf-cutterDeep Cut85points
- Red-girdled mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Red-headed aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Red-headed CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Red-headed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-headed Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Red-headed Polybia WaspDeep Cut85points
- Red-horned miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Red-Horned Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged Austral-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged Beardtongue BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged Bumble-bee CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged CentrisDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Red-Legged Sharp-Tail BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-legged spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Red-lined flabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Red-lipped Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-marked Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-marked PachodynerusDeep Cut85points
- Red-mouth mushroom anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Red-saddled Broad-tongueDeep Cut85points
- Red-shanked carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Red-sided Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-stained ConeDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed andrenaDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed Blazing Star BeeDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed Cuckoo-leaf-cutterDeep 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.