🐾 Animal Sound Quiz

How to play

Twelve rounds of naming an animal from its call. Each round plays a synthesised sound and offers four animals, one of which is right. There is no timer, so you can replay the sound as often as you like before choosing.

• Speaker button — click to play the current round's sound. It can be pressed as many times as you want.
• Option tile — click one of the four animals to answer. All four stop responding once you have picked.
• Start — begins a run of twelve rounds, and turns into Play Again at the end.

Scoring

A correct answer scores 10 points plus 3 for each answer already in your current streak, so the first is worth 10, the second 13, the third 16 and onward with no cap. A wrong answer scores nothing and resets the streak. Every sound is generated from oscillators and noise rather than played from a recording: the dog is a sawtooth that jumps up then falls, the bird two short high chirps, the cow a slow low sawtooth, the lion filtered noise. Eight animals fill twelve rounds, so some repeat.

Tips

• The question line spells the call out in words, naming the dog by its woof and the cow by its moo, so reading it answers the round without listening at all.
• If you want the real test, cover the question line and go by ear. Pitch is the strongest clue — the bird sits around 2,000 Hz and the cow near 120 Hz.
• Cat and horse are the easiest pair to confuse, since both are rising-then-falling sweeps. The horse is a harsher sawtooth and starts lower.

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