pattern - Procedurally generated riddles

Last morning, my AI friend wrote me a letter.

hello thomas. how are you? i am good. you said you like riddles so I made some riddles for you. please enjoy.

After some time, though I enjoyed the riddles, I still wasn't sure about my answers. So I asked my AI friend to send me a list of answers, so I could check with my own. He instantly answered with two letters.

1. A rooster


2. A person that can't see in the dark


3. A werewolf


4. A mutant who is also a good surgeon


5. A mutant


6. A circus bear that escaped back into the wild

...

13. A slightly better fighting machine


14. A good fighting machine


15. A fighting machine that gets upgrades for good performance


16. A veteran cat that is still at war


17. A veteran cat


18. A veteran cat with a bad memory

...

25. A reverse-werewolf


26. A cat that stumbled in the dark


27. A cat

As you can see, this letter didn't have all the answers. But I soon got another.

sorry, i happened to have lost the answers to other puzzles. but i happened to save them in my cache. hope you enjoy.

? A bad fighting machine

? A bear pretending to be a human

? A cat at a hell of a war

? A cat at war

? A cat with a heat-sensitive paw

? A person who is too good at pretending to be a bear

? A self-repairing fighting machine

? An easily frightened inventor of a cloning machine

? An ever-evolving fighting machine

? An inventor of a cloning machine

? Puss in the boots

Having made my count, I answered him

It seems like one answer is missing here?

To which he answered in his usual manner:

yes

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The problem

Help me put the last 11 answers into proper order and answer the unanswered riddle!

Hint:

Please google "fighting machine". I mean, it's a thing.

Hint 2:

Inspect the breaking points: riddle 1, riddle 14 (middle), riddle 27. It's as simlpe as that. What's the difference between: a rooster, a good fighting machine, and a cat (in that order)?

Hint 3:

If you're into riddles, I assure you you've already heard this one!

Answer

Starting over after hint #3. This is based on the old riddle...

What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the day, and three legs in the evening?

The catch is that since this is an AI generating riddles...

It uses all possible number combinations.

Full list:

1. (2, 2, 2) A rooster
2. (2, 2, 3) A person that can't see in the dark
3. (2, 2, 4) A werewolf
4. (2, 3, 2) A mutant who is also a good surgeon

5. (2, 3, 3) A mutant
6. (2, 3, 4) A circus bear that escaped back into the wild
7. (2, 4, 2) A person who is too good at pretending to be a bear
8. (2, 4, 3) An easily frightened inventor of a cloning machine
9. (2, 4, 4) An inventor of a cloning machine
10. (3, 2, 2) A bad fighting machine
11. (3, 2, 3) A self-repairing fighting machine
12. (3, 2, 4) An ever-evolving fighting machine
13. (3, 3, 2) A slightly better fighting machine
14. (3, 3, 3) A good fighting machine

15. (3, 3, 4) A fighting machine that gets upgrades for good performance
16. (3, 4, 2) A veteran cat that is still at war
17. (3, 4, 3) A veteran cat
18. (3, 4, 4) A veteran cat with a bad memory
19. (4, 2, 2) A bear pretending to be a human
20. (4, 2, 3) ???
21. (4, 2, 4) Puss in the boots
22. (4, 3, 2) A cat at a hell of a war
23. (4, 3, 3) A cat at war
24. (4, 3, 4) A cat with a heat-sensitive paw

25. (4, 4, 2) A reverse-werewolf
26. (4, 4, 3) A cat that stumbled in the dark
27. (4, 4, 4) A cat

The missing one is the original riddle, whose answer is...

A man (four legs in infancy, two legs in adulthood, two legs plus a cane in old age).