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
- Robust ivory tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Robust Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Robust Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Robust Reed beeDeep Cut85points
- Robust sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Robust Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Robust thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Robust tree hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Rock flower anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Rock lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Rock Nettle Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rocky Mountain Aerial YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Rocky Mountain AnthophoraDeep Cut85points
- Rodeck's WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Roger's crypt antDeep Cut85points
- Roger's pygmy snapping antDeep Cut85points
- Rogue scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Rolan's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Roller's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Roman-Nose SpinefootDeep Cut85points
- Root-mouthed jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Rope Dodder Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rope grass hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Rose AnthelidDeep Cut85points
- Rose coralDeep Cut85points
- Rose Flower UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Rose lace coralDeep Cut85points
- Rose Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rose TussockDeep Cut85points
- Rose-pink CuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Rose-spotted velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- RosefishDeep Cut85points
- Rosemary's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Rosethorn rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Rosette river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Ross' Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Rosy AemiliaDeep Cut85points
- Rosy AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Rosy crown satinDeep Cut85points
- Rosy rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Rosy sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Rosy SlugDeep Cut85points
- Rothney's Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Rotund Sea-PenDeep Cut85points
- Rough burrowerDeep Cut85points
- Rough cactus coralDeep Cut85points
- rough club coralDeep Cut85points
- Rough cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Rough eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Rough feather coralDeep 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.