What's slimy, has 4 legs, and is a house?

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JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip · 115 pts · 1y (13 replies)

Would it be wrong to have the turtle in that spot? And replace where turtle is now with tortoise. More importantly there's another missing spot, no slime, no legs, and 1 house. What goes there?

denial@feddit.org · 82 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Clam? Maybe if we are generous with the "no slime" definition.

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 1y

Clams have a "foot" that they use to move around with sometimes.

Skua@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 1y
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morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 23 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Turtle isn't slimy

potoo22@programming.dev · 16 pts · 1y

I'd put the slime as "probably". Their shells can get coated in slime, but not always and they don't generate it.

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Frog should be slime=probably

Turtle should be slime=maybe

And tortoise would be slime=no

wieson@feddit.org · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A house

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

A flooded stilt house.

lakemalcom@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y

Came here to say this exactly. And I'm thinking like maybe some kind of sea creature, maybe coral?

jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
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tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · -4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Move snake to no slime, no legs, one house, and replace it with legless lizards. People do keep snakes as pets but I've never heard the same for legless lizards

Edit: Apparently I misread the meaning of house in this graph

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y

Snake no is house

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1y

House doesn't mean pet. House means is a house. Snail, turtle, oyster, clam, etc are house.

myster0n@feddit.nl · 84 pts · 1y (5 replies)

A landlord?

potoo22@programming.dev · 62 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Only two legs and too many houses. Slimy, yes.

grue@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Phylogenetically, they're still tetrapods.

Sidhean@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

You're the best kind of correct!

magic_lobster_party@fedia.io · 6 pts · 1y

They only stand on their back legs when they feel threatened, to make themselves look bigger

GraniteM@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

A married couple who are landlords.

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 72 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I GOT IT!! it's a softshell turtle!!

they live in freshwater like lakes so they are slimy, have 4 legs, and can retract into their body

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I’m a fan of Fly River Turtles (also affectionately known as Pig Nosed Turtles):

pseudo@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Where is c/turtle when I need it?

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

Fucking real! I want to see more cute turtle pics and read relevant factoids.

lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think this one wins the serious answer contest. Nice find, TriflingToad.

mrcleanup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

And tortoise should probably go where turtle is.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 65 pts · 1y

A couple who make real-estate influencer videos?

grue@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 1y (6 replies)

That graph is also missing a data point at [Slime, Legs, House] = [No, 0, 1].

OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 1y

Yeah, but it can be filled in with "house".

Ledivin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Clam? I'd put them at like 0.25 slime, though

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Coral isn't slimy I think

Waldelfe@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y

Maybe some sea animal with a house? I'd imagine you don't need slime under water. But I'm no biologist.

bss03@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1y

Mushroom? In particular, the ones that look most like Smurf houses?

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Slimeless, legless, housed.

Houseplant?

unknown@piefed.social · 34 pts · 1y (4 replies)

C R A B

otter@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Hermit crab should work? It feels more 'house' than a regular exoskeleton

potoo22@programming.dev · 19 pts · 1y

It doesn't have slime to be yes on the slime axis.

unknown@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1y

Oooh, or what about that weird critter that births its young through holes in its back? That's a slimey house with 4 legs!

Edit: Oh wait, no. I looked up 'animal with holes in its back full of babies' and it's the Suriname Toad, so still a frog basically.

morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 1y

C R A B

CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 1y

Nautiloids? They have a shell, are slimy, and have tentacles ("feet")

bitMasque@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y

Four appendages, is slimy, and has a house...

Is it the average landlord?

fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y (2 replies)

billwashere@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Battletoads!!!

Nelots@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y

Little dude has a sick hat. I wish I looked that cool in a hat.

bss03@infosec.pub · 28 pts · 1y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus with a lot of legs/limbs removed.

I guessing there might have been a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautiloid, now extinct that had "only" 4 legs.

Death_Equity@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y

Surinam Frog. 4 legs, slimy, and it incubates its eggs in the skin of the female's back for 4-6 months.

If we consider parasites as inhabitants, there are a lot of slimy house quadrupeds.

Xatolos@reddthat.com · 24 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It's Longhorn Cowfish.

The hexagonal plate-like scales of these fish are fused together into a solid, triangular, box-like carapace, from which the fins and tail protrude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhorn_cowfish

QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why does that look like Donald trump

Thteven@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

It's the dead soulless eyes

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

But with four legs so it can crawl out onto land and move from one tide pool to another!

echolalia@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 1y

a nautilus, as long as you accept tentacles as legs

Although, they have more than 4, so I guess they wouldint be featured at that particular point

apftwb@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

1 house. 4 legs. Yes Slime.

Two married lawyers with a horse costume.

stinky@redlemmy.com · 1 pts · 1y

i'd pay for the onlyfans

zxqwas@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y

A well lubeicated turtle

Pulptastic@midwest.social · 19 pts · 1y (9 replies)

What about no legs, no slime, and a house?

dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Bro, that's a regular old house.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

How'd you get a house with no slime?

dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I was first in line.

stinky@redlemmy.com · 1 pts · 1y

i'd like to be last in line :) giggity

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y

Barnacle.

yumpsuit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Coral

orenj@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
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bampop@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Robot lawn mower

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

disabled hermit crab

NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A turtle with a cold?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y

Or a fungal infection

observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I don't know, some turtles could be quite slimy. At the corner where it says turtle it should probably say tortoise, and at the "what goes here" corner you can put something like a softshell turtle.

null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y

Yeah turtle goes in that corner and them armadillo or something for 4 legs, house, no slime.

satanmat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Almost.... the grid is wrong, it should be tortoise... 4 legs , house, dry...

Turtle 4 legs house slimy....

Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Octopus, they typically go into objects and close them tightly like a shell, and no doubt about legs and slime.

Geobloke@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Too many legs

Soup@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They have zero, actually. No arms, either. They’re molluscs like clams and snails and the tentacles are actually a single modified apendage we call their foot. So, by that, they’ve actually got not enough legs and eight “toes”.

communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

Is the tetrapod leg not also a modified appendage that we call a leg?

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

That's a problem with the choice of axis scale, not the response. Octopus is the correct answer, because it is at or near the extreme of all three axes.

dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I'm more concerned with the partials on the scale. 3 legs, maybe slime, and 0.25 house?

billwashere@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Great… now I have to go fill them all in….

🤔

Would an armadillo count as 3/4 of a house?

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y

I'm saying that .5 is something like a bagworm. Not born with it, but is ingrained into its DNA.

StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

A one-walled lean-to?

Denjin@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 1y

A middle class couple with a food fetish?

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I don't wanna meet anything that is slimy and has four legs. That is pretty much how games like half-life start.

Apeman42@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I was actually opening the comments to ask if headcrabs are slimy enough to fill this niche.

Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hey look, this guy is scared of frogs!!

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

forgot to add "and has an exoskeleton"

umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

As a turtle fan it's always cool when you can look at a diagram and suddenly spot a turtle on it! 🐢

It's like looking at the H-R diagram and going "ooo, Discworld would be right about there, possibly"

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

My hat's off to you, friend

It's rare to find myself out disc-nerded, but here we are

The turtle moves!

stinky@redlemmy.com · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

there's a hidden dot which has 1 House No Slime No Legs

It could be sea coral

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

Bivalves. At least when you're not eating them.

MissJinx@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Crabs?

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

fuckers have like 6 legs

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Technically, 10

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

my god

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Yeah, they are "decapods". 8 legs and 2 claws.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

i too have found the divine in the claw of the astral crab

MissJinx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

True

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

No slime.

gmtom@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

ME

nandeEbisu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Most humans don't have more than 3 legs.

Soup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

On average, we have slightly less than two, even.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Someone who went home without cleaning themself off after getting slimed by Nickelodeon

e: guess it would have to be 2 people for there to be 4 legs

ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Florida man

squaresinger@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

1 House, 2 legs and Yes Slime would be a Doctor.

Edit: For those who don't get it, it's a doctor House reference.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I'd think they'd be more like 2 Houses, 2 Legs, and Medium Slime (probably on a gradient).

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What has 0.5 house?

Skua@kbin.earth · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 1y

Huh, yeah, that seems right, and TIL... cool! Thanks for sharing

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

Porcupine, hedgehog, echidna? Armadillo is probably 0.75?

ater@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

A sloth!

tostiman@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No slime

ater@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Sloths grow algae in their fur. Definitely slimy.

tostiman@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Oh, TIL

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y

A crab that lost a few legs while falling into a vat of lube

einlander@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Frogs aren't slimy though.

unknown@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1y

You ever touched one? They're kinda sticky, which is like dry slime.

Acamon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Armadillo?

Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

🦀 🦀 🦀

T156@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Surely it would be more bewildering in the middle. What's something that only has 0.1 4 legs, and is 0.4 house?

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y

A war vet

mediOchre@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

A horny turtle

Mgineer@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

Move turtle to that corner and put tortoise in its spot

LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

Pregnant frogs?

TheDoozer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Saint bernard?

Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y

If you can have slugs and snails, the other one is a toad

fubarx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Valmond@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

A gnome is also missing there

TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Kangaroo

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

House with legs, ok, but slimy where?

invertedspear@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That marsupial pouch isn’t dry.

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

It may be moist, but it's not really slimy.

T156@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

It may not count if it's slimy on the inside.

Geobloke@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y

They're actually pentapedal, educate yourself

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Nautilus missing some tentacles.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

What has 2 legs, maybe slime and 0.5 house?

jsomae@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

lobsters?

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

10 legs, no slime...does a chitinous exoskeleton count as a house?

jsomae@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

idk, it's like 0.5 house

pseudo@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y

Definitly some mollusque.

bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I wonder if it is just stone

chairsushi@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

A shelled salamander

rowinxavier@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Neckbeard computer chair

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Are soft shelled turtles slimey?

EldenLord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

How about turtoise? Their skin is a bit slimy when it‘s wet.

nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Hermit crab?

arnitbier@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Salamanders, people keep them as pets

WalterLego@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They don't have a house that they can carry around like a snail or something they ca retract into like a tortoise.

arnitbier@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Ahh, I thought it meant they like houses like snails like house gardens and turtles are pets in houses but that does make more sense ty I guess

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 1y

Snail with four legd

Pilon23@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Axolotls

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't have house

Pilon23@feddit.dk · 10 pts · 1y

This one does

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Tubifex worm

aegis_sum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Marsupials?

GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Cattersnail?

No, Snailapillar!

AMoistGrandpa@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hisuian Sliggoo?

ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Only two arms, one “foot”, I guess?

Three is pretty close!

Soapbox@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y
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WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Master Roshi.

syreus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Does not have 4 legs. Unless ...

WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Eh. Four limbs.

MoMo4541@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hermit crab

humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

most ocean things are slimy. Shrimps might count too.

Beeper@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Centipede

captaincoupi@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1y
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PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

House

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Trump! Boo!

What a shithole county!

Release Epstein!

tkk13909@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

Buddy... I love the spirit but here is not the place

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

You lost, pal?