Asking about linguistic characteristics of the word is cheating in twenty questions! :) There’s a note about this at the end of the “How To” that’s linked on the front page.

I’d rate this one “black diamond” level for sure.

My Questions

is it alive? 👍 is it an animal? 👍 is it a land animal? 👎 is it a salt water fish? 👍 is it a tropical fish? 👍 is it commonly consumed in America? 👎 is it a common fish in home aquariums? 👎 is it a common fish in public aquariums? 👍 does it have a distinct color? 🤷‍♂️ is it larger than a bread box? 👎 is it a keystone species? 🤷‍♂️ is it a character in the movie Finding Nemo? 👍 Is it larger than one foot in length? 👎 does it have unique characteristics that differentiate it from other fish? 👍 is it a clown fish? 👎 is it an angler fish? 👎 is it a deep sea fish? 👎 is it a seahorse? ⭐

Spoilers! :) I checked this one and it seems to have corrected itself. You’re absolutely correct, though!

Thanks for finding this issue. Our “cheater buster” was a bit overzealous about the first question, but it’s a legitimate non-cheating question so we’ve made an exception. It should work in the future.

Thanks for your feedback! We’ve implemented a change to improve the outcome of this kind of question in the future.

We’ve implemented a fix to make it more lenient. Sometimes the synonyms and spellings catch us off guard (“raccoon” vs “racoon”), but we should have known about this one! Sorry about that.

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Server resets at 00:00 UTC. If you had the page open before that time and tried to ask a question, it refreshes the page so that the server isn’t (unbeknownst to you) suddenly answering questions about a different word. We’ll try to add something to handle that transition better in the future. Sorry about that!