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Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by publicdebates »

barbazoo wrote: post #19

> Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom. For son dishonors father, Daughter rises against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man’s enemies are the men of his own household. Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me. Yikes, got a fun one right away. Th…

It's related to John 2:23-25. He's not saying you should not have friends or trust anyone. He's saying you should not seek or hope anything from humans that only God can actually provide. It's related to codependence and similar character flaws. I think even atheists would agree that it's not healthy to want the objective approval and validation of inconstant people with imperfect judgment.

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by egglemonsoup »

olalonde wrote: post #8

Stupid question but is it common for Christians to be able to identify which book a Bible verse belongs to? I assume you'd have to have read the Bible multiple times to be able to play this, right?

Based on my initial audience, it's definitely not common. The Christians I know have different levels of familiarity with the books of the Bible.

Personally, I know Genesis/Exodus, Psalms, and the Gospels well. I can recognize Epistles on sight, but identifying the exact one is really just a guessing game. Most everything else I am not familiar with and will take me a while to guess.

I think that's why people have enjoyed it so far, because of the tradeoff of getting a verse you recognize (so you can guess the book quickly) or getting an unfamiliar verse (so you get to expand your familiarity with the Bible).

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by tshaddox »

publicdebates wrote: post #14

This is too difficult: Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom. For son dishonors father, Daughter rises against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man’s enemies are the men of his own household. Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me. Tried [redacte…

Proverbs and Psalms are both in the same section (wisdom), which is one of the very few mechanics the game has to help you narrow things down.

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by thevillagechief »

egglemonsoup wrote: post #15
gampleman wrote: post #5

Since you're from an Orthodox background, perhaps you can consider having the books from an actual Orthodox bible? For instance it is missing Wisdom of Solomon, Sirrah and others. Edit: I'd also appreciate an RSS feed so that I can get notified when a new puzzle is released.

Thank you so much for noticing. I didn't even know there was a difference between Orthodox/Catholic and Protestant canons until a week after the site was live. I spent a decent amount of time trying to add the Deuterocanonical books. Ultimately I put it on hold, because I was worried that adding those books would make a challenging game even harder (at least for my initial audience of 20 family and friends). I also w…

It's fine to add the books, when you do, I hope the elegant way gives one the option to enable/disable them. Otherwise you're probably going to miss out on one audience or the other.

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by herpdyderp »

trumbitta2 wrote: post #22

So, having religion on the front page means politics are now allowed on HN, too. Right?

This is less about religion directly and more about sharing a cool app imo.

Also, tbf, there are regular posts on the HN front page that I would consider "political". (Though I'm not bothered by them.)

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by tshaddox »

trumbitta2 wrote: post #22

So, having religion on the front page means politics are now allowed on HN, too. Right?

I don’t think that a game involving uncontroversial facts about the history of politics (e.g. “guess the U.S. President") would be banned under HN’s rules either.

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by cogman10 »

publicdebates wrote: post #20
olalonde wrote: post #8

Stupid question but is it common for Christians to be able to identify which book a Bible verse belongs to? I assume you'd have to have read the Bible multiple times to be able to play this, right?

I absolutely would pass this kind of quiz 100% with any New Testament quote, thanks to having put Life and Truth Dramatized Audio New Testament on in the background literally 24/7 for a few years straight. Also John Rhys-Davies reads Hebrews so well with his classical training and Welsh accent that it's hard not to memorize large parts of it verbatim.

NT would be pretty easy to guess from just about any verse. The hardest part would be placing one of the epistles or determining exactly which gospel a verse came from.

OT is a lot harder simply because of the number of writers and how boring/similar a lot of the writing is. To be successful you'd need to have something pulled from like the pentateuch. Maybe psalms or something like Kings/Chronicles.

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by vunderba »

“Guess the Book” is also a game concept (itself related to matching a quote to its author) that can be easily adapted to secular works as well. You could do this with something like “Guess the Passage by Shakespeare Play.”

Now get thee to a nunnery.

Re: Show HN: A Daily Bible Game

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Post by cogman10 »

YY4398427 wrote: post #23

Tangentially related, but is there a good open source ePub of the versions of the Bible? Standard eBooks doesn't have the Bible in their library, bizarrely.

I'd look for the NRSV from Anna's archive. You should find a pretty good english translation epub there.
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