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List animals until failure

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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 sim…

I went by groups and families of animals.

Re: List animals until failure

#43
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!

Re: List animals until failure

#44
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.

Re: List animals until failure

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post #23

No LLMs is impressive. Also recognizes "drop bear". Well played.

The Australian Museum recognises them also: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/

Somewhat more impressively, it recognises bungarra .. although it stalls out and fails on other similar words for various local animals.

Re: List animals until failure

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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.
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