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If I'm able to, I'll do a full run-down with pics in a week. In the meantime, you can jump right in. Here are some notes that might help:

  • This a detective-style game in which you'll receive five chances to guess a mystery animal per case.
  • It's based on animal sightings around the world, but those don't represent their total habitat. Just where a photographer happened to snap a pic.
  • Each question, you'll start by receiving the species name and geographical location. On the right you'll be given a helpful panel of animal types, including a useful search feature to help narrow things down.
  • If you miss the first guess, you'll be zoomed in to the exact sighting location and a roving binoculars which scans the habitat, showing the animal... somewhere in there.
  • The next two guesses, you'll be given a little more of various facts about the animal.
  • At the very last guess, you'll be given a list of five animals to choose from.
  • If you're correct on the first guess you'll get 5pts, all the way to 1pt for the final (correct) guess. You can play as many questions as you like, whenever you like. Your average will be tracked, and you can play as either guest or using an acct.
  • This is a TOUGH game, so don't feel bad if you only average around 1pt, which already suggests that you're pretty good with your animal ID's.
  • The game is fan-made, so there's a couple mistakes here and there which can be reported as necessary at the end of a question-cycle.

Finally, it's trivially easy to cheat if you really want to. The most obvious way is to simply look up the species name at the beginning! ๐Ÿ˜

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[โ€“] swooper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Really enjoy this. I only had games in 10 that had a vague picture (distant picture of a tree (apparently with birds in it)). Maybe add the ability to flag a photo

[โ€“] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

When the photo's not very helpful, there's a cheat that may help:

Right-click (or copy-paste in mobile?) the image in to a new tab / window, and you'll be shown the whole thing. With distant stuff, that won't help too much, but with nearby stuff either blurry or partially seen, I find it's a big help!