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
- Scarlet AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet coralDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet LadyDeep Cut85points
- scarlet-spotted coneDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-spotted velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-tailed bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-tip aeolisDeep Cut85points
- ScatDeep Cut85points
- Schaum's acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Schaus' Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Schlechter's thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Schlecter's burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Schlegel's black rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Schrenck's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Schuchert's hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Schuh's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Schwab's razorjaw antDeep Cut85points
- Schwarz's Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Scimitar BeeDeep Cut85points
- Scissor beeDeep Cut85points
- Sclerodermus waspDeep Cut85points
- Scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- ScolymiaDeep Cut85points
- Scorching sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion beetleDeep Cut85points
- Scorpionweed pollen waspDeep Cut85points
- Scraggly bottle brush black coralDeep Cut85points
- Scribbled rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Scroll coralDeep Cut85points
- Scullen's Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Scullett's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Sculpin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Sculpted tree antDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Scurfy Pea Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Scutate-horned Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sea aster beeDeep Cut85points
- Sea beardDeep Cut85points
- Sea cypress hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Sea dandelionDeep Cut85points
- Sea Fan NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Sea fingerDeep Cut85points
- Sea firDeep Cut85points
- Sea grass sea firDeep Cut85points
- Sea hedgehog hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Sea onionDeep Cut85points
- Sea pansyDeep Cut85points
- Sea pine hydroidDeep 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.