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
- Rhinopias scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- RhodactisDeep Cut85points
- Rhodesian Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Rhodian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Rhododendron coneDeep Cut85points
- Rhus Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ribbon ConeDeep Cut85points
- Ribbon CoralDeep Cut85points
- Ribboned ConeDeep Cut85points
- Ribbontail StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Ricardo's cuckoo Carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Rice coralDeep Cut85points
- Richard's black coralDeep Cut85points
- Richard's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Richardson's waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Richtersveld rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- RicordeaDeep Cut85points
- Ridge Face Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ridge-cheeked Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ridge-cheeked furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Ridge-crowned CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Ridge-gastered furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Ridge-mouthed miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Ridged cactus coralDeep Cut85points
- Ridged-mouth scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ridgeless Cactus CoralDeep Cut85points
- Ridings' Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Rigid Sea PlumeDeep Cut85points
- Rigid-flowered sea penDeep Cut85points
- Ring sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Ring-tentacle anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Ringbum millipede muncher antDeep Cut85points
- Ringed coneDeep Cut85points
- Ringed Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Ringed phidianaDeep Cut85points
- Rio Brain CoralDeep Cut85points
- Rio ConeDeep Cut85points
- Rio Nautla CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Rios' AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Ritter's soft coralDeep Cut85points
- River jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Rivulated rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Robber antDeep Cut85points
- Roberts' Rhopalolemma BeeDeep Cut85points
- Robertson's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Robertson's plasterer beeDeep Cut85points
- Robertson's Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Roberval MinerDeep Cut85points
- Robust burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Robust Forest-NomiaDeep 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.