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Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by andrewtbham »

fifticon wrote: post #66

This is already written elsewhere, but this game screams to work efficiently with the keyboard, so one can just type country names and hit 'return'. I can already mostly navigate it with TAB + shift-TAB, but as the game loop is simply 'type name, get feedback', it seems weird the keyboard flow has not been polished in its otherwise quite polished design. I am at two minds about the drop-down matches covering the beau…

I have tried to get this to work. The problem has to do with the material UI Select component used. I think the problem is that the return key is already used to select an item from the select.

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by mason55 »

ghaff wrote: post #90
fifticon wrote: post #66

This is already written elsewhere, but this game screams to work efficiently with the keyboard, so one can just type country names and hit 'return'. I can already mostly navigate it with TAB + shift-TAB, but as the game loop is simply 'type name, get feedback', it seems weird the keyboard flow has not been polished in its otherwise quite polished design. I am at two minds about the drop-down matches covering the beau…

This is more interesting than the one that came out around the time of the initial Wordle craze. That was only an unscaled shape which was really hard even if you were pretty good at geography. (Most countries don't have a very distinctive shape.)

Neighborle is an ok daily geography game. If you're really good at geography then it's probably too easy but every couple days one of the puzzles actually makes me think (usually stuff on the Atlantic coast of Africa).

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by ghaff »

mason55 wrote: post #92
ghaff wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is more interesting than the one that came out around the time of the initial Wordle craze. That was only an unscaled shape which was really hard even if you were pretty good at geography. (Most countries don't have a very distinctive shape.)

Neighborle is an ok daily geography game. If you're really good at geography then it's probably too easy but every couple days one of the puzzles actually makes me think (usually stuff on the Atlantic coast of Africa).

This was the one I was thinking of. https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

Yeah, it's mostly African countries or random islands that gave me the most trouble.

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by DylanSp »

youngNed wrote: post #10

Its good, but I was expecting a rotate/zoom I really like travle.earth: https://travle.earth/challenge/

I've been playing Travle for a while, didn't know it had a dedicated URL for the challenges, that's nice. I wish the challenges had an infinite play mode like https://travle.earth/practice/, but oh well. Thanks for linking that!

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by wartijn_ »

Aachen wrote: post #84
thih9 wrote: post #47

My score was 7/20. I enjoyed it; I like that you can use this without entering the country name, i.e. do just "Check" -> "Correct"/"Wrong". This is such a fast and rewarding loop, reminds me of flash cards or spaced repetition apps.

I'm at 27/45 when I ran out of available time (IRL), which is pretty depressing for someone who once knew them all :( The ones you never hear about slip the mind. Sure I can still say Zambia is near South Africa, but which one is Mozambique, which one Botswana, and which one Zambia? Hard I even had trouble remembering Yemen! Always found that easy for some reason, especially after I remembered that the order is "YO!"…

Yemen has been in the news lately, because of its location. Ships have been avoiding the Red Sea because people in Yemen were firing rockets at them.
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