> Once they learn how to solve it once, changing up the animals will not fool a typical child. You could even create fictional animals with made-up names and they could solve it as long as you tell them which animal was the carnivore and which one was the herbivore.
When was your last experience with small children? Let's define "small" here to 5 y.o. or less, as that's the limit of my direct experience (having a 5 y.o. and an almost 3 y.o. daughters now).
There's a lot riding on "learn how to solve it once" in this case, because it'll definitely take more than a couple exposures to the quiz before a small kid is going to catch on the pattern and suppress their instincts to playfully explore the concept space. And even after that, I seriously doubt you "could even create fictional animals with made-up names and they could solve it as long as you tell them which animal was the carnivore and which one was the herbivore", because that's symbolic algebra, something teenagers (and even some adults) struggle with.
When was your last experience with small children? Let's define "small" here to 5 y.o. or less, as that's the limit of my direct experience (having a 5 y.o. and an almost 3 y.o. daughters now).
There's a lot riding on "learn how to solve it once" in this case, because it'll definitely take more than a couple exposures to the quiz before a small kid is going to catch on the pattern and suppress their instincts to playfully explore the concept space. And even after that, I seriously doubt you "could even create fictional animals with made-up names and they could solve it as long as you tell them which animal was the carnivore and which one was the herbivore", because that's symbolic algebra, something teenagers (and even some adults) struggle with.