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
- Rough guyniid coralDeep Cut85points
- Rough harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Rough Humpbacked ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Rough plate coralDeep Cut85points
- Rough sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Rough sea plumeDeep Cut85points
- Rough small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Rough star coralDeep Cut85points
- Rough VelvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Rough-Back stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Rough-backed blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Rough-node trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Rough-skinned sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Rough-skinned soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Rough-tailed burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Rough-thorax Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Roughback River stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Roughback whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Rougheye RockfishDeep Cut85points
- Roughnose stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Roughskin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Roughtail round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Roughtail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Round fantail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Round scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Round vented small carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Round-headed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Round-sock Neon Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Round-tailed Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rozen's Giant beeDeep Cut85points
- Rozen's Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Rubbery zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Ruby rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Ruddy ConeDeep Cut85points
- Ruddy Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rudolph's Austral-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Rufescent sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-backed Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-footed furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Rugged harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Rugged ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Rugose anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Rugose Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rugose Spurred-MinerDeep Cut85points
- Rugose-chested Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rugose-collared Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rugose-fronted Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Rugulose Yellow-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Ruidoso Sweat BeeDeep 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.