https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class#Common_criteria_f... has some more fun ones. When I first heard of noun classes in school, we were introduced to them via Borges' story about the Chinese Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge[0] (which may have been inspired by Chinese noun classifiers?).
These words can serve a kind of poetical function; but in principle you could use the generic one — “ko” in Japanese and “gè” in Mandarin Chinese — for everything, and it is even accepted that as a foreigner you will. However, doing so is taken to be a sign of infelicity with the language. One instructor related to me that failure to use an advanced counter when the opportunity presents itself is a sign of poor education, rather like missing the opportunity to use a word like “infelicity”.