All of my current lizards have gotten out at one point, luckily the anole was at night so it went to sleep so I could catch it.
My take:
Crestie: impossible to find if you don’t see it come out, after a few weeks it pops up, let’s you pick it up and toss into cage.
Giant day gecko: Fast as hell, easy to trick and catch.
Anole: If it didn’t go to sleep on a sheet next to its cage it would have gotten away. Luckily, he did.
Apparently giant days and anoles are handleable. My giant day is insane, skittish too, though he has calmed down. Maybe one day. You would have to train an anole from a hatchling for it to be calm. What I don’t understand is why wild ones are always calmer than the captive bred ones, you would think captive are already accustomed to people.