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List animals until failure
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- meltingscales 8mo agoThis is super fun :)
- echelon 8mo ago106, I feel like I should have done much better. (I feel like I cheated by naming a lot of dinosaurs and insects.) The clown emoji is great. :)
- alterom 8mo agoAnother 106 here. I got to the point where I was just blanking out looking at the countdown timer.
- eudamoniac 8mo agoStrange, I also scored 106. A common sticking point?
- the_fall 8mo agoIt might be an interesting LLM benchmark: how many can they list without breaking the rules (repetition or non-animals). Although I bet that big bucks would be then thrown at pointlessly optimizing for that benchmark, so...
- bronco21016 8mo agoMight be an interesting problem for understanding how various models perform recollection of prior tokens within the context window. I'm sure they could list animals until their window is full but what I'm not sure of is how much of the window they could fill without repeating.
- helloplanets 8mo agoI guess it could be generalized to filling up the context window with any token, but just making sure none of the tokens repeat. An interesting twist could be making sure a specific token is an anagram of the token N tokens back. This could possibly measure how much a model can actually plan forwards.
- pbmonster 8mo agoEven more interesting is if a thinking LLM would come up with tricks mitigating its own known limits - like listing animals in alphabetical order, or launching a shell/interpreter with a list that contains previous answers (which it then checks each new answer against).
- OxfordOutlander 8mo agoyou might like https://github.com/aidanmclaughlin/AidanBench https://github.com/aidanmclaughlin/AidanBench
- nxtfari 8mo agothere are so many special cases that this game responds to, i was shocked that it didn’t involve an llm at all at the end. very cool.
- helloplanets 8mo agoFor anyone wondering: This is based on basic text parsing and a key-value lookup table, no AI involved whatsoever. Here's the table: https://rose.systems/animalist/lower_title_to_id.js https://rose.systems/animalist/lower_title_to_id.js
- kranner 8mo agoThere must be another table. I got "Are you Australian?" for "dingo" and for "cicada" "don't you love their songs?" edit: https://rose.systems/animalist/eggs.js https://rose.systems/animalist/eggs.js
- helloplanets 8mo agoYea, there's a bunch of easter eggs. And then there's the table for the taxonomy tree.
- jml7c5 8mo agoHmm, what's this one? var h = hash(guess); if (h==7182294905658010 || h==6344346315172974) { return "Adorable guess, but it's spelled “rosy”."; } I'm guessing they're hashes for "<something> rosie" or "<something> rosey", but what?
- moeffju 8mo ago7182294905658010 "rosey maple moth" 6344346315172974 "rose maple moth"
- Retr0id 8mo agoThere's a long Indonesian string referencing "weasel" - weird https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28521 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28521 Edit: someone edited to remove it just this minute! Introduction: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?diff=2353193943 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?diff=2353193943 - just random vandalism I suppose.
- l1n 8mo agohttps://rose.systems/blog/list-animals-until-failure https://rose.systems/blog/list-animals-until-failure on how it's made!
- maxbond 8mo agoI got 42. I was very impressed by how it handled more and less specific categories. It also understood rotifers were a microscopic animal, which I half expected not to work. Great project.
- themanmaran 8mo ago68. The unique title texts are really fun. But I strongly disagree that "chipmunks are squirrels".
- jmtulloss 8mo agoThis is what I'm saying. Chipmunks are not squirrels. I will do my best on this hill.
- eutropia 8mo agois "do my best" some kind of weird censorship-speak euphemism for "die"???
- pinkmuffinere 8mo agoI think it's meant to convey "I'm not willing to _die_, but I do feel strongly"
- jmtulloss 8mo agoYes, it’s not a hill I’m willing to die on. It’s a hill I’m willing to defend until the cause is lost.
- bmitc 8mo agoThere are some weird ones. It knew red-bellied woodpecker but not yellow-bellied woodpecker.
- pdabbadabba 8mo agoSimilarly, it insisted to me that a pigeon is the same thing as a mourning dove. Not true! But your case is even more egregious.
- meatmanek 8mo ago"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove) or domesticated / feral variants of it.
- divbzero 8mo agoInstead of trying to think of just any animal, I found it easier to add a constraint… 1. Animal that starts with A 2. Animal that starts with B 3. Animal that starts with C … (I also appreciated the easter eggs: “Are you Australian?” and “You listed both dingos and dogs, so I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but there's disagreement on whether the dingo is its own species of canid, a subspecies of grey wolf, or simply a breed of dog.”)
- 2muchcoffeeman 8mo agoWithout considering if it’s a distinct species, a dingo is descended from the same wolf population as dogs. They are feral dogs. IE wolf -> domesticated dog -> became wild again.
- bmitc 8mo agoI went by groups and families of animals.
- thr0waway001 8mo agoWhat comes after C?
- Buildstarted 8mo agodrop bear => Already said Koala. but if you type it before you say koala the answer drops from the top of the page. so many great easter eggs. got 92 in the end
- cvhc 8mo ago49 as ESL speaker. Fun little game to practice English words :)
- rogual 8mo ago140. Good fun. I like how it teaches you things, too. I learned that toads are considered frogs, axolotls are salamanders, and that it's "anemone" not "anenome". If you type in Unicorn it accepts it as "Unicorn spider" with a fun message. Don't forget to think of insects, birds and fish too, all of which it accepts. I love this kind of detailed, handcrafted thing that someone put a lot of time and effort into. If you wanted to develop this more, some fun features might be telling you the most commonly entered animals you missed and the most unusual ones you thought of. Appreciate you probably want to keep it a static site though.
- mberning 8mo agoIt accepted tardigrade which I thought was interesting.
- pilaf 8mo agoIt pulls its data from Wikidata, which is very thorough, so I'd be more surprised if you managed to enter an animal it didn't know.
- kyle-rb 8mo agoPresumably inspired by this tweet: https://x.com/Fredward3948576/status/1763363909669388588 https://x.com/Fredward3948576/status/1763363909669388588
- vunderba 8mo agoThat and probably Sporcle. Name X from {group Y} is a very popular quiz archetype. https://www.sporcle.com/games/jjjjlapine2nd/name-every-animal https://www.sporcle.com/games/jjjjlapine2nd/name-every-anima...
- bitwize 8mo agoARE YOU THINKING OF AN ANIMAL? yes DOES IT SWIM? no IS IT A BIRD? https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=4 https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=4
- jll29 8mo agoBTW, that's a great game if you are on a road trip with bored kids.
- adt2bt 8mo ago157. Very neat! Started a, b, c then found much more success when thinking about biomes (sea, mountains, forest, jungle, etc).
- locusofself 8mo agonice score! I got 129, and yes, same experience.
- tptacek 8mo agoNo LLMs is impressive. Also recognizes "drop bear". Well played.
- defrost 8mo agoThe Australian Museum recognises them also: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/ https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/ Somewhat more impressively, it recognises bungarra .. although it stalls out and fails on other similar words for various local animals.
- wincy 8mo agoHahah in a moment of desperation I put “unicorn” which its response made me laugh out loud.
- _ache_ 8mo agoAhah. After trying myself, I immediately tried "Obama" and it works ! But oddly enough, most personality with a name in the "List of organisms named after famous people" doesn't work. Nether does bacterium or fish ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_famous_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...
- yorwba 8mo agoThe flatworm genus Obama is not named after Barack Obama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_(flatworm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_(flatworm)
- vekerdyb 8mo ago“Haggis” also gets a good response
- nerdsniper 8mo agoBecause the dataset is pulled from Wikidata: (drop bear) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4819356 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4819356
- dudewhocodes 8mo agoAccepts the word "human" as well. update: Start with "human" or "homo sapiens" and the website keeps changing as you add new words.
- hillcrestenigma 8mo agoI like how it triggers an overlay when you try "human", it's a nice touch
- troyvit 8mo agoI said "ape" after and it wouldn't take it because I'd said human already :)
- ivanech 8mo agothis was really delightful. The Easter eggs in particular made it feel like someone was actually on the other side
- Cyphase 8mo ago95. Definitely feel like I should have done better; will try another time with more sleep.
- lepolas 8mo agoThis was fun. I definitely could feel the fatigue slowing me down until the timer got me. I also wasted a bunch of time trying to spell specific animals like the wobbegong. I like the emoji output as well: 203 animals listed: 𓃬𓆊 𓃜𓃘𓅱𓆉𓅃
- yuppiepuppie 8mo agoNice! I added this to the HN Arcade https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/list-animals-until-failure https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/list-animal...
- Hackbraten 8mo agoThanks for actually maintaining this instead of leaving it as a one-off dump!
- Client1003 8mo agoFantastic. Thanks for this. Might you want to add Super Monkey Ball too if you haven't already? https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/ https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789961
- yuppiepuppie 8mo agoHere you go :) https://hnarcade.com/games/games/super-monkey-ball https://hnarcade.com/games/games/super-monkey-ball
- ViscountPenguin 8mo agoPossum => opossum is erroneous. I was planning to list both species, it wasnt a typo.
- kalmyk 8mo agolots of animals
- TZubiri 8mo agoThe background is alternating between cyan and black, which is very distracting. Not sure if that's on purpose.
- disillusioned 8mo ago205 and I very much was scraping the bottom of the barrel at the end. Starting a bit generic and adding specificity helped a lot. The little meta-commentary was great. "you already said dogs. dogs are dogs." when I tried "golden retrievers" after already typing dogs.
- jammaloo 8mo ago267, I was going pretty strong and had about 2 minutes racked up, until I hit a wall, and couldn't think of anything else. Thinking in groups helped the most, e.g. reptiles, flightless birds, african animals, etc. Extinct animals also work, including the dinosaurs!
- pards 8mo agoYep - dodo worked for me
- themk 8mo agoOne of the few sites with a fun "you have javascript turned off" message. > This game requires JavaScript. Or, if you've superior taste, take out a pen and paper and start listing animals.
- sublinear 8mo agoI think that's meant to be a gentle insult, but I'm glad it had it's intended effect!
- schnaars 8mo agoThis is awesome. I made it to 100, but I know jack about animals.
- cellis 8mo ago79. I feel like i should have done better but got stuck in a local minima of "farm animals, which obvious farm animals haven't I said??", then tried thinking of names of fish which worked until it didn't.
- jojobas 8mo agoSome animals replace vaguer definitions, but say "snake" is there forever, no cobra or viper for you. Strange.
- apt-apt-apt-apt 8mo agoLazy daisy: (async () => { for (c of 'red black white brown blue green yellow golden grey arctic mountain forest spotted striped'.split(' ')) for (a of 'bear lion tiger wolf fox eagle shark whale snake frog cat dog horse bat rat mouse owl hawk duck crab ant bee spider deer penguin elephant rabbit'.split(' ')) { guessbox.value = c + ' ' + a; uncomment(); attempt(); await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 75)); } })();
- nerdsniper 8mo ago(async(s=new Set(Object.values(PARENT)))=>{for(i in ID_TO_TITLE)if(!s.has(i)){guessbox.value=ID_TO_TITLE[i];uncomment();attempt();await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame)}})() This is a concise, pretty naive way highest possible high-score by just guessing everything in the internal animal database, and avoiding "parents". I'm not sure how many points it would get us because it would take like 3 hours to complete. However, we can do a lot better for the score by analyzing some additional things: (The following numbers may be off a bit due to overlapping sets or just recording them at different stages of investigation/understanding, but they're darn close) The game has 379,729 animals in its list (ID_TO_TITLE), mapped from 768,743 input strings (LOWER_TITLE_TO_ID). 52,546 are parents of some other animal, so it's best to skip those: If you guess "bird" first and then guess "eagle", then eagle won't count for points. Unless...well, more on that towards the end! 4,485 rows are considered to be "too specific". For example, there are 462 species under Mordellistena but the game says "nah screw all that, Mordellistena is specific enough". 3,127 are duplicates, they're the same species but have different names from different era. e.g. Megachile harthulura was discovered in 1853 but renamed to Megachile cordata in 1879. The game counts these only once. 3,116 are...weird: I think these are mostly errata caused by the input parser redirecting guesses to different IDs than the raw/full database expects. The parser maps the text to some "correct" ID but leaves a different, perhaps similar ID uncredited. This could happen because the text parser strips out hyphens, e.g. there's an entry for Yellow-tail which should be a duplicate of Yellow-tail moth but "Yellow-tail" gets parsed to "yellowtail" which gets mapped to the fish Japanese Amberjack. Sometimes it's skipping ranks in the taxonomy, like the beetle Neomordellistena parvula maps directly to a Subfamily, which skips the Genus level required to verify the lineage. Sometimes it's things that got reclassified from one genus to another. And sometimes there are rows that are a family which get mapped to a genus, which is also a row (Dilophosauridae -> Dilophosaurus) 28 rows are impossible to reach because they need a curly apostrophe that the parser replaces with a straight apostrophe if you put it in the input box. 23 of the straight version maps to a different animal. For example, "budin's tuco tuco" (curly) maps to Budin's tuco-tuco, but after normalization it becomes "budin's tuco tuco" (straight), which maps to Reddish tuco-tuco. 5 of them have keys with curly apostrophes where the straight version doesn't exist in the database at all. One entry in the list of animals is 'zorse' (zebra-horse hybrid) but this guess is explicitly rejected because it doesn't have its own wikipedia page (the wikipedia page for that is a redirect to "Zebroid"). That brings us down to a maximum score of 316,457 but then there are 722 entries in the string mapping table which are strings that don't appear in the raw animal table which can map to otherwise blocked animals, like Mongolian wolf. This animal exists and could count to your score, but if you type "Mongolian wolf", it maps to Himalayan wolf and you get credit for that instead of Mongolian wolf. However, it also contains a mapping for "woolly wolf" which gives you credit for Mongolian wolf. That brings us up to the actual maximum score of 317,179 Then, because of these 10,034 unreachable leaf-nodes (non-parent rows in the animal list), sometimes all the children of a parent is unreachable, so because we never claimed any points for their children, we can go get the points for the parents. This adds 5,561 points. This brings us up to 322,740. By doing the 'maximum' 30 guesses per second (limited guesses to the game tick rate of 30fps), it would take an absolute minimum 3 hours to submit every animal. Just a note, the countdown timer counts down from 1 minute, but 6 seconds are added for every correct guess. So by the time you're done the countdown timer would reach 22.6 days, which you'd have to wait to elapse before the game is actually "won". If we remove some visual effects, we can reduce that by spamming guesses for 12ms, then pause for 4ms to let the browser render which keeps the tab responsive. But the guesses still slow down over time due to a O(N²) algorithm in the game's code: it checks your current guess against a List (the array structure in JS), which is an O(N) check that runs N times, for an overall O(N²) performance hit. We can patch that function so it checks against a Set instead of a List to keep it O(1). On an M2 MBP, this gets the high-score in under 30 seconds while keeping the game logic unchanged in function. But the visual effects were nice and it's rather soulless without the author's artistic vision. Turning them back on and giving it the 6ms required to render all of them slows this from 30 seconds to a boring 5 minutes. We can make it run the game logic 98% of the time and then render for 2% of the time, but it's still a bit too slow because the browser has to recalculate the page layout (DOM) every time a guess it submitted via the input box. So we can also skip the actual input box. That reduces it to a lovely 20 seconds to get the highest possible score! Then some memoization, some stupid tweaks to keep the UI looking nice, and adding a progress meter, aggressive minimization for HN posting, and we get the final script running in 16.5 seconds. You'll still have to wait 22.75 days for the countdown timer to run out to win the game. I didn't want to actually change any of the game's logic or game the win condition, so editing that is left as an exercise to the reader! :) (async()=>{"undefined"==typeof guessed_ids&&newGame();const e=e=>e.trim().toLowerCase().replaceAll("-"," ").replaceAll("’","'").replaceAll(/ +/g," "),o=LOWER_TITLE_TO_ID.human,t=LOWER_TITLE_TO_ID.crow,n={},r={},s={},c={};for(const[e,o]of Object.entries(LOWER_TITLE_TO_ID))(n[o]??=[]).push(e);for(const[e,o]of Object.entries(PARENT))(r[o]??=new Set).add(e);for(const[o,t]of Object.entries(ID_TO_TITLE)){if(LOWER_TITLE_TO_ID[e(t)]===o){s[o]=t;continue}const r=n[o]?.find((t=>LOWER_TITLE_TO_ID[e(t)]===o));r&&(s[o]=r)}const i=e=>{if(void 0!==c[e])return c[e];const o=r[e];return c[e]=!!o&&[...o].some((e=>s[e]||i(e)))},a=(e,o)=>{for(let t=PARENT[e];t;t=PARENT[t])if(t===o)return!0;return!1},d=[],l=[],p=[];for(const e of Object.keys(s)){if(i(e))continue;const n=s[e];(e===o||e===t?d:a(e,t)?l:p).push(n)}const f=[...p.splice(0,10),...d];for(;l.length||p.length;)f.push(...l.splice(0,6),...p.splice(0,6));const u=window.guessbox,g=window.comment,m={value:"",focus(){},disabled:!1},w={innerText:""};Object.defineProperty(window,"guessbox",{get:()=>m,configurable:!0}),Object.defineProperty(window,"comment",{get:()=>w,configurable:!0});const b=new Set(guessed_ids);guessed_ids.includes=e=>b.has(e),guessed_ids.push=e=>{Array.prototype.push.call(guessed_ids,e),b.add(e)};const T=.02,x=new Set(["longcat","dropbear","drop bear","sidewinder"]),O=log.prepend.bind(log);log.prepend=e=>{const o=x.has(e.innerText.toLowerCase().split(" → ")[0]);(o||Math.random()<T)&&(O(e),log.children.length>25&&[...log.children].reverse().find((e=>!e.dataset.vip))?.remove(),o&&(e.dataset.vip="true"))};const _=summonConfetto;summonConfetto=(...e)=>{Math.random()<T&&_(...e)};const h=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(HTMLElement.prototype,"innerText").set;Object.defineProperty(scorespan,"innerText",{set:e=>{(Math.random()<T||"0"===e)&&h.call(scorespan,e)}});const L=document.createElement("div");L.style.cssText="position:fixed;top:10px;right:10px;width:180px;background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(180,100,200,.85),rgba(100,180,220,.85));color:#fff;font:12px monospace;padding:10px;z-index:999999;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:1px 1px 1px#000",document.body.append(L);const y=f.length,E=Date.now();let I=0,j=E;for(;I<y;){const e=performance.now();for(;performance.now()-e<32&&I<y;){m.value=f[I++],uncomment();try{attempt()}catch{}}const o=Date.now();if(o-j>500){const e=(o-E)/1e3;L.innerHTML=`${(I/y*100).toFixed(1)}% | ${I/e|0}/s<br><small>${I.toLocaleString()}/${y.toLocaleString()}</small>`,j=o}await new Promise((e=>requestAnimationFrame(e)))}h.call(scorespan,score),Object.defineProperty(window,"guessbox",{value:u}),Object.defineProperty(window,"comment",{value:g}),L.innerHTML=`100% in ${((Date.now()-E)/1e3).toFixed(1)}s<br><small>${y.toLocaleString()}/${y.toLocaleString()}</small><br><b style=color:#8f8> ${score.toLocaleString()}</b>`})();
- squibonpig 8mo agoLmfao black widow turns the title black I think
- locusofself 8mo ago129 here, not bad for the end of the day. I listed a surprising number of dinosaurs, and of course, edible animals, and Lion King stuff.
- khazhoux 8mo agoWarthog! Meerkat!
- Jordan-117 8mo ago205! The running commentary was fun. And I love how permissive it is -- it was fun stumbling into a new category that you wouldn't necessarily expect to qualify. I do wish that there was an option to see a list of the most popular ones you missed (based on traffic to the article or similar). For a similar brain exercise, try to Name Every City: https://cityquiz.io/ https://cityquiz.io/
- RadiozRadioz 8mo agoI think they need to restrict their definition of city more. I named some tiny villages and it accepted them.
- khazhoux 8mo ago130 Fun game, but also a fascinating brain-probe. We're not used to reversing our internal classifiers.
- monopoliessuck 8mo agoI added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.
- 4gotunameagain 8mo agoyeah there are lots of inaccuracies. I added bobcat, then lynx, and it would not accept lynx because bobcat was there. Oh, and, 77, just woke up. No coffee.
- yellowapple 8mo agoLikewise, it wouldn't accept “panther” because “tiger” was already there: > I assume you mean “panther” in the general sense of any big cat. Why on Earth would it assume mean that, of all things, rather than “black panther”? If it's gonna be pedantic about it, it could've complained about “leopard” and “jaguar” already being there (which they were) instead of complaining about an animal that nobody in their right mind would call a “panther”.
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- Scarblac 8mo agoThere is no actual "panther" animal though, the word is used for several different animals (leopards, jaguars and pumas at least, I think). They can all have melanistic coats and are then often called black panthers. But that's not a species.
- technothrasher 8mo agoI believe the poster you're replying to understands that. They're noting that the complaint about panther was curiously because they had already listed tiger, which is practically never called a panther, and not because they already listed leopard, which is a cat that is often called a panther. The statement about meaning "any big cat" I would guess to be a confusion based on the name Pantherinae for the subfamily of Felidae of which all these big cats are part. Though the puma, which as you note is also called a panther, is in the different subfamily, Felinae. I personally just tend to avoid the word panther, because it very often causes confusion as to which cat you're talking about.
- hyperno 8mo ago110. my strategy is to use pokemon to remember animals. (i can list all 1025 pokemon from memory) not a great strat, though. (tons repeated animals)
- samename 8mo agoFun results: outputted as emoji 30 animals listed 𓃱 𓃸 Edit: weird... emojis don't work here? how have I never known this...
- kevin_thibedeau 8mo agoWe can at least practice egyptology.
- teaearlgraycold 8mo agoCountdown timer seemed stuck at 1:16 and then was suddenly big red and almost out of time? 66 animals listed 𓃬𓃰
- QuadrupleA 8mo agoFun :) but mobile text input was the main challenge.
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- riffraff 8mo agoI'm mildly bothered that I can't input "fox" because I already entered "fennec", and the game decided it should be "fennec fox" :)
- whtrbt 8mo agoYou would need to say "red fox". I think that feature, managing specificity, is actually quite well implemented.
- pmcarlton 8mo ago307. I think I could have kept going but I was exhausted. Dinosaurs helped a lot! My favorite easter egg was "sidewinder".
- elias1233 8mo agoI created a similar game but where you can enter any category, for example programming languages, car brands or whatever. Of course uses LLMs https://gissallt.eliasf.se/ https://gissallt.eliasf.se/
- grimgrin 8mo agoNot of course. You could have compiled datasets. Matter of fact I think that would be cooler for something with definitive lists LLMs could compile it for you, by sourcing X Y and Z
- ulnarkressty 8mo ago> great tit > Thanks! Amazing.
- lostlogin 8mo agoAfrican swallow European swallow. Game over. You didn’t list lion.
- bokkies 8mo agoSince this accepts all marine, freshwater and sky animals (birds) also this could take a very long time. For a bit more of a challenge in a shorter time list all animals starting with a particular letter. Time yourself a couple minutes to put some pressure on. Challenge your friends and family!
- oneeyedpigeon 8mo agoI got to 60s before the lag became too much. I'm not sure "car" should be an accepted answer!
- guytv 8mo agowhere are the high scores?
- jstanley 8mo agoPretty cool but it won't allow "parrot" after "budgie" because budgie is more specific? A budgie isn't a parrot! (Wikipedia says it actually is a type of parrot, but I definitely refer to different types of bird when I refer to a "parrot" vs a "budgie")
- johtso 8mo agoThis is the trouble with common names, the way to avoid ambiguity is to use the binomial name.
- mcny 8mo agoIt allowed me dingo after dog though.
- ryankrage77 8mo agoAlso claims parakeets are parrots.
- nerdsniper 8mo agoHigh score was 322,740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845068
- philipwhiuk 8mo agoHow dull.
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- csomar 8mo agoTyping human has some nice visual effects and writes "That's me".
- Angostura 8mo agoI got: Already said more specific animal: Leopard I assume you mean “panther” in the general sense of any big cat. At that point I stopped playing because this seems nonsense
- patrick451 8mo agoThis game thinks buffalo and bison are the same thing and elk and deer are the same thing. Which is absurd, they even require buying different tags when hunting.
- eudamoniac 8mo agoElk are a species of deer and the American buffalo is also known as a bison.
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- vanderZwan 8mo agoA mere 69, but I wonder if I would do better in my native language. Also, once I discovered it accepts extinct animals I went all in on dinos and other extinct animals, that's like half of my score.
- refrigerator 8mo agoVery fun and impressive to do this without LLMs! My score: 191 animals listed 𓆈𓇼 ⬛鯉𓃱唐𓆉𓃸𓆣𓆉 (update: oh... looks like you can't paste the full emoji string here)
- eru 8mo agoThat's weird. I tried Secretariat, which was definitely an animal and definitely has a Wikipedia page, but it wasn't accepted.
- moralestapia 8mo agoToken/type dichotomy irl. I was reading about it yesterday ^^.
- harpiaharpyja 8mo agoKicking myself because I ran out of time yet forgot to mention any vultures, elephants, or large cats. I guess that's for trying this first thing on a Sunday.
- jasona123 8mo agoDid anyone else have the thought of “should I just list off all the Ubuntu version names that I know and start with that”?
- etothepii 8mo agoThis was a lot of fun. The game mechanic of a count down timer made for much better play. I was most surprised for bluebottle to be replaced with man o' war. We know the man o' war here in bermud by that name whereas a bluebottle is what I would call house fly.
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- jasinjames 8mo agoThis is actually one of many techniques used to identify dementia symptoms. Hopefully 85 is enough to pass.
- grantseltzer 8mo agohttps://rose.systems/animalist%0A%0A180%20animals%20listed%0A%F0%9F%A6%86%F0%9F%90%BB%F0%9F%90%BB%F0%9F%90%BC%F0%9F%90%A8%F0%9F%A6%86%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%A6%A9%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B%F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B%F0%9F%90%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B%F0%9F%A6%85%F0%9F%A6%85%F0%9F%A6%85%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A7%F0%9F%90%BA%F0%9F%90%A7%F0%9F%90%A7%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%A6%86%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%93%85%AA%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%A6%89%F0%9F%A6%89%F0%9F%A6%89%F0%9F%A6%89%F0%9F%A6%89%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%8E%AA%F0%9F%8E%AA%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A9%F0%9F%98%BA%F0%9F%90%9B%F0%9F%A6%97%F0%9F%AA%B0%F0%9F%95%B7%F0%9F%95%B7%F0%9F%95%B7%F0%9F%95%B7%F0%9F%95%B7%F0%9F%AA%B0%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%A5%94%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%BF%F0%9F%90%A2%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%9F%F0%9F%90%9F%F0%9F%A6%88%F0%9F%A6%88%F0%9F%90%9F%F0%9F%90%8B%F0%9F%90%B3%F0%9F%90%80%F0%9F%A6%90%F0%9F%A6%80%F0%9F%A6%9E%F0%9F%A6%90%F0%9F%A6%80%F0%93%87%BC%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%AA%B3%F0%9F%90%9B%F0%9F%90%9D%F0%9F%90%9B%F0%9F%90%9C%F0%93%85%A3%F0%93%85%A3%F0%93%85%A3%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%93%85%BC%F0%9F%90%A1%F0%9F%AA%BF%F0%9F%AA%BF%F0%9F%90%A6%F0%9F%A6%86%F0%9F%A6%86%F0%93%85%A7%F0%93%85%A7 https://rose.systems/animalist%0A%0A180%20animals%20listed%0...
- ivanjermakov 8mo agoTIL toads are frogs.
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- animal_spirits 8mo agoProud I got 131 :)
- jonah 8mo agoAt some point my wife recommended listing animals, flowers, etc. alphabetically as a way to distract the mind to help get to sleep. It's a great exercise.
- bonyt 8mo agoI just made a variant of this that uses the browser speech recognition API. It's simplified, with none of the flair of the original, but should be fun to play in person. It's fun to shout animal names at computer with friends. https://t.moveything.com/animalscream/ https://t.moveything.com/animalscream/ (works best on desktop chrome. it's too slow on safari in my testing.)
- mastermedo 8mo agoSuper fun, I'd love to get a little bit more time like in the OPs website for each animal that I guess right. Instead of 1 second, it should be something like 6 because I can speak much much faster than the speech recognition is able to separate out my guesses.
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- piinbinary 8mo agoIt didn't know about the Woodboring beetle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodboring_beetle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodboring_beetle Doing this felt odd, it was like it wore out something in my brain. After a while I could picture the animals I wanted to enter but I struggled to remember the word for them. Only now, a minute or so after stopping, could I remember 'Dragonfly' I was also amused by the reaction to "crab": > (Carcinization makes it hard to define “crab”, so I'm going to pretend you said “brown crab”.)
- zahrevsky 8mo agoToo bad it doesn't show some scoreboard or stats of other players.
- thr0waway001 8mo agoWTF? That is the most ominous count down to ten sequence I've seen on the internet. I felt like I was choosing between the blue wire and the red wire.
- AlienRobot 8mo agoFunny how various colors are "animals."
- pcurve 8mo agoThe result was rather depressing. I'm pushing 50 and I wasn't able to reach 50. I'm going to have to work on my recall skill.
- cbeach 8mo ago57. Suggestion: show a distribution of scores at the end, so you can see how you did compared to others
- strstr 8mo agoThis is more of a typing game than anything else. It rejected “blackcapped chickadee” (wanted black-capped chickadee). Frankly that felt a bit tedious on a phone. Had to scrub through to correct and lost.
- pests 8mo ago70 and it made fun of me for forgetting "dog" :(
- mooreds 8mo ago103. Fun! Interesting it took werewolf but not jabberwocky.
- dluan 8mo agoi'm not typing out all of humuhumunukunukuapua'a, just accept humuhumu
- languagehacker 8mo agoChipmunks are not squirrels
- MathMonkeyMan 8mo ago> Chipmunks are small, striped squirrels of subtribe Tamiina. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk> But I know what you mean.
- philipwhiuk 8mo agoYeh you'll need to add 'grey squirrel' or 'black squirrel' or 'red squirrel' I imagine.
- AdminAdmim 8mo agoI created a german version of it just because i know more animals in german https://animalist-de.marianzeis.de/ https://animalist-de.marianzeis.de/ https://github.com/marianfoo/animalist_de https://github.com/marianfoo/animalist_de
- ssenssei 8mo agoThis was actually really nice. I loved the concept and I was hopping for 100 but couldn't get to it. 60 animals listed 𓃬𓃸𓃱 ⬛ ⬛𓆏
- philipwhiuk 8mo agoSlugs and snails are not the same. I quickly Google'd the latin for a snail to work around it. On the other hand I got 79 and I forgot to say Chicken. It would be helpful if the list was ordered maybe but I guess that's part of the fun.
- meltingscales 8mo agoThis is super duper fun. :)
- jppope 8mo agosuper fun game. I started then realized I could burn my entire day. Got into the 50s before I started thinking. Thanks NatGeo!
- silexia 8mo agoI got 53... much harder than expected!
- thayne 8mo agoI put pink dolphin, meaning Amazon River Dolphin, and it corrected it to Indian Humpback Dolphin. It looks like indian humpback dolphins can be pink, but as far as I can tell the species as a whole isn't valled that the way the amazon river dolphins are.
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 8mo agoFunny. I had an idea in the past about asking schizophrenic patients this kind of task ("list objects"). Then analyze the trajectory in LLM embeddings space of this enumeration. I'd be surprised if there weren't useful patterns. (I'm a psychiatry resident and dev)
- merelysounds 8mo agoThis is a very fun project, I like its UX a lot too. I generally dislike timers, but I discovered that this one can be customized in the settings, this is a nice touch. I also like how the sharing feature only prepares the text that the user can later copy to their platform of choice. There may be downsides (e.g. people could cheat) but I still prefer prioritizing UX like this.
- vin92997 8mo agoWhen entering German shepherd and chihuahua: "Already said Dog. Dogs are dogs." lol