- One 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.
by monopoliessuck
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- I 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.
by piinbinary
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- It didn't know about the 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”.)
- Presumably inspired by this tweet: https://x.com/Fredward3948576/status/1763363909669388588
by helloplanets
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- For 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
by apt-apt-apt-apt
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- Lazy 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));
}
})();
- I 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/
(works best on desktop chrome. it's too slow on safari in my testing.)
- Did anyone else have the thought of “should I just list off all the Ubuntu version names that I know and start with that”?
by themanmaran
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- 68. The unique title texts are really fun. But I strongly disagree that "chipmunks are squirrels".
- No LLMs is impressive. Also recognizes "drop bear". Well played.
by yuppiepuppie
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- Nice! I added this to the HN Arcade https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/list-animal...
- 267, 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!
- I 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.
- 79. 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.
- ARE YOU THINKING OF AN ANIMAL? yes
DOES IT SWIM? no
IS IT A BIRD?
https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=4
- This 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
- It 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...
- This 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.
- 157. Very neat! Started a, b, c then found much more success when thinking about biomes (sea, mountains, forest, jungle, etc).
by grantseltzer
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- https://rose.systems/animalist%0A%0A180%20animals%20listed%0...
by dudewhocodes
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- Accepts the word "human" as well.
update: Start with "human" or "homo sapiens" and the website keeps changing as you add new words.
- Instead 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.”)
- 106, 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. :)
by merelysounds
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- This 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.
- At 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.
by patrick451
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- This 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.
- I'm mildly bothered that I can't input "fox" because I already entered "fennec", and the game decided it should be "fennec fox" :)
by nerdsniper
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- High score was 322,740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845068
- That's weird. I tried Secretariat, which was definitely an animal and definitely has a Wikipedia page, but it wasn't accepted.
by AdminAdmim
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- I created a german version of it just because i know more animals in german
https://animalist-de.marianzeis.de/
https://github.com/marianfoo/animalist_de
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe
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- Funny. 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)
- 307. I think I could have kept going but I was exhausted. Dinosaurs helped a lot!
My favorite easter egg was "sidewinder".
- 110. 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)
- there 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.
- I 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.
by refrigerator
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- Very 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)
- The background is alternating between cyan and black, which is very distracting. Not sure if that's on purpose.
- Since 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!
- Pretty 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")
- 140. 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.
by elias1233
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- I 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/
by philipwhiuk
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- Slugs 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.
- 130
Fun game, but also a fascinating brain-probe. We're not used to reversing our internal classifiers.
by ViscountPenguin
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- Possum => opossum is erroneous. I was planning to list both species, it wasnt a typo.
by vanderZwan
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- A 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.
by harpiaharpyja
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- Kicking 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.
- The 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.
by QuadrupleA
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- Fun :) but mobile text input was the main challenge.
- This 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
by locusofself
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- 129 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.
by jasinjames
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- This is actually one of many techniques used to identify dementia symptoms. Hopefully 85 is enough to pass.
- Some animals replace vaguer definitions, but say "snake" is there forever, no cobra or viper for you. Strange.
by oneeyedpigeon
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- I got to 60s before the lag became too much. I'm not sure "car" should be an accepted answer!
- 57.
Suggestion: show a distribution of scores at the end, so you can see how you did compared to others
by teaearlgraycold
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- Countdown timer seemed stuck at 1:16 and then was suddenly big red and almost out of time?
66 animals listed
𓃬𓃰
- Fun results: outputted as emoji
30 animals listed
𓃱 𓃸
Edit: weird... emojis don't work here? how have I never known this...
- Typing human has some nice visual effects and writes "That's me".
- Too bad it doesn't show some scoreboard or stats of other players.
- 103. Fun! Interesting it took werewolf but not jabberwocky.
- This is awesome. I made it to 100, but I know jack about animals.
- 49 as ESL speaker. Fun little game to practice English words :)
- super fun game. I started then realized I could burn my entire day. Got into the 50s before I started thinking. Thanks NatGeo!
by AlienRobot
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- Funny how various colors are "animals."
- It accepted tardigrade which I thought was interesting.
- African swallow
European swallow.
Game over. You didn’t list lion.
- I got 53... much harder than expected!
- 70
and it made fun of me for forgetting "dog" :(
- this was really delightful. The Easter eggs in particular made it feel like someone was actually on the other side
- i'm not typing out all of humuhumunukunukuapua'a, just accept humuhumu
by meltingscales
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- This is super duper fun. :)
- This 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.
by languagehacker
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- Chipmunks are not squirrels
by ulnarkressty
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- > great tit
> Thanks!
Amazing.
by Buildstarted
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- drop 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
by Jordan-117
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- 205! 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/
by meltingscales
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- This is super fun :)
by ivanjermakov
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- TIL toads are frogs.
by animal_spirits
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- Proud I got 131 :)
by disillusioned
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- 205 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.
- 95. Definitely feel like I should have done better; will try another time with more sleep.
- When entering German shepherd and chihuahua:
"Already said Dog. Dogs are dogs."
lol
by thr0waway001
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- WTF? 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.
- where are the high scores?
- I 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
- lots of animals
by squibonpig
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- Lmfao black widow turns the title black I think
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