Prompt 2 of 7
Name a venomous or poisonous animal
61 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Spanish dancer nudibranch— A sea slug that steals stinging cells from its prey and reuses them. Weaponized elegance.
85 ptsDeep Cut23 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Assassin bug
- Beaded lizard
- Boomslang
- Brown snake
- Bushmaster
- Fer-de-lance
- Hooded pitohui— A poisonous bird. Same toxin as the dart frogs, worn as feathers.
- Krait
- Puff adder
- Scorpionfish
- Sea anemone
- Sea snake
- Sea urchin
- Shrew
- Slow loris
- Solenodon
- Stinging catfish
- Tarantula hawk— A wasp that hunts tarantulas. Pain scale: 'lie down and scream.'
- Tiger snake
- Vampire bat
- Velvet ant
- Wandering spider
- Weever fish
60 ptsRare17 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Adder
- Brown recluse spider
- Bullet ant
- Cane toad
- Centipede
- Cone snail
- Coral snake
- Cottonmouth
- Death adder
- Fire ant
- Gila monster
- Komodo dragon
- Portuguese man o' war
- Redback spider
- Sydney funnel-web spider
- Taipan
- Yellow jacket
30 ptsSchooler15 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Bee
- Blue-ringed octopus
- Box jellyfish
- Copperhead
- Hornet
- Jellyfish
- Lionfish
- Mamba
- Poison dart frog— Poisonous, not venomous, technically. We'll allow it; the frog won't apologize either.
- Pufferfish— Poisonous rather than venomous, strictly. The fish declines to apologize.
- Stingray
- Stonefish
- Tarantula
- Viper
- Wasp
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Platypus— 'Did you know the platypus is venomous?' The go-to well-actually. Venomous ankle spurs, deployed on schedule.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Black widow spider
- Cobra
- Rattlesnake
- Scorpion