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

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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?
- Clam? Maybe if we are generous with the "no slime" definition.
  
  Clams have a "foot" that they use to move around with sometimes.
- Turtle isn't slimy
  
  I'd put the slime as "probably". Their shells can get coated in slime, but not always and they don't generate it.
  
  Frog should be slime=probably
  Turtle should be slime=maybe
  And tortoise would be slime=no
- A house
  
  A flooded stilt house.
- Came here to say this exactly. And I'm thinking like maybe some kind of sea creature, maybe coral?
- Certain coral species, maybe?
- 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
  
  Snake no is house
  
  House doesn't mean pet. House means is a house. Snail, turtle, oyster, clam, etc are house.

A landlord?
- Only two legs and too many houses. Slimy, yes.
  
  Phylogenetically, they're still tetrapods.
  
  They only stand on their back legs when they feel threatened, to make themselves look bigger
  
  A married couple who are landlords.

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
- I’m a fan of Fly River Turtles (also affectionately known as Pig Nosed Turtles):
  
  Where is c/turtle when I need it?
- I think this one wins the serious answer contest. Nice find, TriflingToad.
  
  And tortoise should probably go where turtle is.

A couple who make real-estate influencer videos?

That graph is also missing a data point at [Slime, Legs, House] = [No, 0, 1].
- Yeah, but it can be filled in with "house".
- Clam? I'd put them at like 0.25 slime, though
  
  Coral isn't slimy I think
- Maybe some sea animal with a house? I'd imagine you don't need slime under water. But I'm no biologist.
- Mushroom? In particular, the ones that look most like Smurf houses?
- Slimeless, legless, housed.
  Houseplant?

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

C R A B
- Hermit crab should work? It feels more 'house' than a regular exoskeleton
  
  It doesn't have slime to be yes on the slime axis.
  
  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.
- C R A B

Four appendages, is slimy, and has a house...
Is it the average landlord?

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.

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.

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

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

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
- Why does that look like Donald trump
  
  It's the dead soulless eyes
- But with four legs so it can crawl out onto land and move from one tide pool to another!

A well lubeicated turtle

1 house. 4 legs. Yes Slime.
Two married lawyers with a horse costume.
- i'd pay for the onlyfans

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

A turtle with a cold?
- Or a fungal infection

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.
- Yeah turtle goes in that corner and them armadillo or something for 4 legs, house, no slime.
- Almost.... the grid is wrong, it should be tortoise... 4 legs , house, dry...
  Turtle 4 legs house slimy....

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

A middle class couple with a food fetish?

I'm more concerned with the partials on the scale. 3 legs, maybe slime, and 0.25 house?
- Great… now I have to go fill them all in….
  🤔
  Would an armadillo count as 3/4 of a house?
- I'm saying that .5 is something like a bagworm. Not born with it, but is ingrained into its DNA.
- A one-walled lean-to?

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"
- My hat's off to you, friend
  It's rare to find myself out disc-nerded, but here we are
  The turtle moves!

I don't wanna meet anything that is slimy and has four legs. That is pretty much how games like half-life start.
- I was actually opening the comments to ask if headcrabs are slimy enough to fill this niche.
- Hey look, this guy is scared of frogs!!
  
  forgot to add "and has an exoskeleton"

there's a hidden dot which has 1 House No Slime No Legs
It could be sea coral
- Bivalves. At least when you're not eating them.

ME
- Most humans don't have more than 3 legs.
  
  On average, we have slightly less than two, even.

Crabs?
- fuckers have like 6 legs
  
  Technically, 10
  
  True
- No slime.

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

Florida man

A sloth!
- No slime
  
  Sloths grow algae in their fur. Definitely slimy.

What has 0.5 house?
- Semi-slugs!
  
  Huh, yeah, that seems right, and TIL... cool! Thanks for sharing
- Porcupine, hedgehog, echidna? Armadillo is probably 0.75?

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

Frogs aren't slimy though.
- You ever touched one? They're kinda sticky, which is like dry slime.

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

Move turtle to that corner and put tortoise in its spot

Armadillo?

Pregnant frogs?

🦀 🦀 🦀

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

A horny turtle

Saint bernard?

Nautilus missing some tentacles.

A gnome is also missing there

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

Kangaroo
- House with legs, ok, but slimy where?
  
  That marsupial pouch isn’t dry.
- They're actually pentapedal, educate yourself

A shelled salamander

Neckbeard computer chair

I wonder if it is just stone

What has 2 legs, maybe slime and 0.5 house?
- lobsters?
  
  10 legs, no slime...does a chitinous exoskeleton count as a house?
- Definitly some mollusque.

Salamanders, people keep them as pets
- They don't have a house that they can carry around like a snail or something they ca retract into like a tortoise.
  
  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

Marsupials?

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