I was super obsessed with biological taxonomy in middle school—something about the trees and hierarchies was really satisfying. Would've loved this game back then but now it's just frustrating.
Can you please make your substantive points constructively? It's fine to offer suggestions for improvement but if you come across as putting down someone else's work, that's bad for the culture here.
5, but I feel like I cheated because the classification was specific enough while saying “animals like _____, _____, and _____” and the answer was the third one.
It's not obvious from OP's link how to get there - you have to click on the turtle. I didn't realize until I read the comments here that this is a Wordle-like and your goal is to guess today's animal.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 50.6 ms ] threadI wonder if there are other things that have such a well documented and defined taxonomy that we could use for similar games.
Maybe spoiler: 9 guesses, but I wasted some not realizing cats are more closely related to orcas than chimpanzees.
End maybe spoiler.
Wish I could play more right now instead of waiting 24 hours.
i had heard and used this word growing up, but i don't think i had actually ever seen it written until now.
Devs, don't force people to suffer through your "pretty" backgrounds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Okay then
It's not obvious from OP's link how to get there - you have to click on the turtle. I didn't realize until I read the comments here that this is a Wordle-like and your goal is to guess today's animal.