I love how the first two make you over-confident and then wham, you're lucky to get much above 50%.
I think I got much less than 50%.
Frog or Toad?
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#12Hi there! I'm the creator of this game, happy to answer any questions people might have. This is a total surprise, thanks so much for playing!
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#13Taxonomically there is no rule about the differences between toad/frog. Generally “frogs” are considered to be more aquatic than toads, but I’m pretty sure the naming is not entirely consistent amongst species. Funny game, it definitely throws some hard ones at you.
That is very much the intent of the game! Frog vs toad is what's known as "folk taxonomy", taxonomy based on people's informal observations and characterisations, and not on the principles of scientific taxonomy. There's a lot of common everyday examples of folk taxonomy that people don't realise aren't "scientific", and are very confident about, and the progression of species in this game was intended to really poke at what people know makes a frog and a toad.
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#14There are only 2 toads. Green and brown. Everything else is frog.
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#15I suppose I had never really thought about the difference between a frog and a toad, and after playing this game, it is clear that I have absolutely no idea what it might be.
That's the point of the game. There is no taxonomic difference.
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#16There are only 2 toads. Green and brown. Everything else is frog.
there were more toads than that. but i noticed there were more frogs than toads. so if you just keep hitting frog, you should score over 50% (though there is no score displayed at the end), which was better than my "informed" guessing
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#17Nice collection of species! I think the Suriname frog (toad?) is my favourite.
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#18My guesses were so consistently wrong that I at first thought the site was making up frog/toad names based on the opposite of my answer.
Then I guessed "toad" for what turned out to be "a false toad (Telmatobufo bullocki)" and my head exploded a bit
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#19Hi there! I'm the creator of this game, happy to answer any questions people might have. This is a total surprise, thanks so much for playing!
This is a good thing you made, and you should feel good about it
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