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Animal speeds

Order by top recorded speed, slowest first. You place all 52 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the animal speed ranking game works

Rank the animals by their top recorded speed, in kilometers per hour, slowest first. Each card names an animal and prints its group underneath: mammal, bird, reptile, fish, insect and so on. One animal starts on the line with its speed showing. For each new card, decide whether it ranks above or below the animals already placed and pick that gap. Get it right and its top speed is revealed; get it wrong and it still lands in its real spot, costing one of three lives.

It runs from creatures that barely move at all to some of the fastest animals on Earth, with plenty of land, sea and air life in between. The middle is the tough part, where very different animals end up with nearly the same top speed. Remember these are bursts, not cruising speeds, and diving counts. A familiar pet or farm animal can be quicker than you'd expect, and some big, scary predators are slower.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 103 times. An average run places 5.8 cards, and 66% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Black mamba missed 79% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Mexican free-tailed bat missed 72% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Red kangaroo missed 67% of the time, usually by about 2 places

The safest card is Sea anemone, placed right 95% of the time.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Sea anemone Cnidarian
  • Garden snail Gastropod
  • Three-toed sloth Mammal
  • American cockroach Insect
  • Manatee Mammal
  • Koala Mammal
  • Chicken Bird
  • Saltwater crocodile Reptile
  • Alligator Reptile
  • Grey squirrel Mammal
  • Wild turkey Bird
  • African elephant Mammal
  • Usain Bolt Human
  • Warthog Mammal
  • Bison Mammal
  • Grizzly bear Mammal
  • Roe deer Mammal
  • Coyote Mammal
  • Red kangaroo Mammal
  • Greyhound Mammal
  • Blue wildebeest Mammal
  • Reindeer Mammal
  • Swordfish Fish
  • Pronghorn Mammal
  • Common swift Bird
  • Grey-headed albatross Bird
  • Mexican free-tailed bat Mammal
  • Golden eagle Bird

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