Animal Grid — Grid Game

Rules & what counts

Animal Grid — Rules & What Counts

Animal Grid puts animal traits on a 3×3 board. Each row has one trait, and each column has one trait.

Name one animal for each cell. The animal must have the row trait and the column trait — an African carnivore, a nocturnal animal with scales.

A run has one board. The board gives you nine guesses for nine cells, so only a clean board fills completely.

Select a cell. The strip above the input shows the two traits the cell asks for.
Type an animal's name. A list shows the animals the game knows that match your text.
Select a name from the list, or press Enter when only one name remains.
Each guess spends one of the nine — correct or wrong. A correct guess fills the cell. A wrong guess leaves the cell open.
You can use each animal one time per board.
When the board ends, the open cells show an example answer.
The timer starts on your first guess and counts up. Give Up ends the run and keeps your score.
The game saves your progress. You can close the page and continue within one hour.
Hold the pointer on a trait header to read what the trait means.

The answer pool is the Daily Animal pool — almost 1,000 real animals.
Any animal in the pool that has both traits fills the cell. Rare animals count the same as famous ones.
The game checks every board before play: each cell has several well-known answers.
Traits come from the pool's data: animal class, diet, continents, activity, body covering, legs, size, and more.
Score is one point per filled cell — 9 points for a perfect run.

The input only accepts names the game knows. A name outside the pool cannot be typed, so a wrong guess is always a wrong animal, not a spelling error.
A trait the data does not record does not count. An animal with an unknown diet never fills a diet cell.
Continents use the natural range. Zoos and pets do not move an animal to a new continent.

The format comes from Immaculate Grid, a baseball game from 2023. TRIVI.GG plays it with animals instead of ballplayers.
The randomizer draws each run's board from 60 pre-checked boards, so two runs rarely show the same board.
The same animal photos appear in the Daily Animal quiz — every one is a freely licensed Wikimedia Commons image.
A perfect run needs 9 correct guesses in 9 guesses — one for every cell on the board.