> This game requires JavaScript. Or, if you've superior taste, take out a pen and paper and start listing animals.

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.

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”.)

Here's the table: https://rose.systems/animalist/lower_title_to_id.js

  (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));
      }
  })();

https://t.moveything.com/animalscream/

(works best on desktop chrome. it's too slow on safari in my testing.)

Extinct animals also work, including the dinosaurs!

DOES IT SWIM? no

IS IT A BIRD?

https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=4

I like the emoji output as well: 203 animals listed:

𓃬𓆊 𓃜𓃘𓅱𓆉𓅃

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.

update: Start with "human" or "homo sapiens" and the website keeps changing as you add new words.

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.”)

The clown emoji is great. :)

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.

https://animalist-de.marianzeis.de/

https://github.com/marianfoo/animalist_de

(I'm a psychiatry resident and dev)

not a great strat, though. (tons repeated animals)

My score:

191 animals listed 𓆈𓇼 ⬛鯉𓃱唐𓆉𓃸𓆣𓆉

(update: oh... looks like you can't paste the full emoji string here)

(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")

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.

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.

Fun game, but also a fascinating brain-probe. We're not used to reversing our internal classifiers.

60 animals listed 𓃬𓃸𓃱 ⬛ ⬛𓆏

Suggestion: show a distribution of scores at the end, so you can see how you did compared to others

66 animals listed 𓃬𓃰

30 animals listed 𓃱 𓃸

Edit: weird... emojis don't work here? how have I never known this...

Game over. You didn’t list lion.

and it made fun of me for forgetting "dog" :(

> Thanks!

Amazing.

For a similar brain exercise, try to Name Every City:

https://cityquiz.io/

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