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andrewfromx
I'm a little amazed at my human brain's pattern matching ability. Just a tiny bit of fur and I KNOW it's a cat.
neontomo
It's quite a rewarding experience. What is your best streak so far?
andrewfromx
hmm I didn't play for very long or even notice my stats. I just checked it out long enough to get what it was and then concluded: game, waste of time. Not to say all games or your games is not worthy, just my own issues. I can never play games. I feel like I need to get back to coding and be productive.
beardyw
On my phone the bird button is mostly lost off the bottom of the screen. Worked out what it was by deduction.
neontomo
Thanks for the feedback! I changed the margins around, should be more robust now.
xigoi
I got 27.

Maybe I'm blind, but there seems to be a picture of a man labeled as a dog.

neontomo
Must be the AI mislabelling then! No but jokes aside, it's Snoop Dogg. I wanted to add a bit of humour.
xigoi
Okay, but that makes the game unplayable for people who don't know him.
neontomo
I'm sorry about that, I thought everyone would know him.
Agraillo
Idea came to be used as a captcha, though the list of choices should be extended from (cat, dog, bird) to restrict bots random guessing. The task is not that easy, but way more entertaining than finding bridges and pandas or entering nonsense text.
neontomo
That's an interesting business idea friend. If done in a way that the bot can't simply inspect the element to find the answer, it may be valuable.
trumbitta2
Nice, but... too easy? I lost interest at 20
neontomo
It gets harder, but you need to get past around level 30, then the square shrinks to a tiny dot. No one has made it past 40 yet.
RobDukarski
I managed to get past 43 but it was a single box after that... I guessed wrong.
neontomo
At some point it becomes a game of randomness haha. But I've capped it so it never makes the square less than 5 pixels. Well done you hold the record as far as I know!
ss108
finally, a game I'm good at
neontomo
I'm sure that's not the whole truth!
rco8786
Ha, I got a Snoop Dogg picture (guessed correctly)
neontomo
That's the curveball, haha. Nicely done.