ARE YOU THINKING OF AN ANIMAL? yes DOES IT SWIM? no IS IT A BIRD? https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=4
BTW, that's a great game if you are on a road trip with bored kids.
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#92Pretty cool but it won't allow "parrot" after "budgie" because budgie is more specific? A budgie isn't a parrot!
(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")
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#93Pretty cool but it won't allow "parrot" after "budgie" because budgie is more specific? A budgie isn't a parrot! (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")
It allowed me dingo after dog though.
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#94Pretty cool but it won't allow "parrot" after "budgie" because budgie is more specific? A budgie isn't a parrot! (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")
This is the trouble with common names, the way to avoid ambiguity is to use the binomial name.
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#95High score was 322,740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845068
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#97Typing human has some nice visual effects and writes "That's me".
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#98I got:
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
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#99I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. 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.
It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.
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#100Nice! I added this to the HN Arcade https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/list-animal...
Thanks for actually maintaining this instead of leaving it as a one-off dump!