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I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by nbclark »

stervy wrote: post #9
nbclark wrote: post #2

Was wondering when I'd see a post like this... https://github.com/nbclark/hqcheat/ Interestingly, we seemed to end up with all 3 of the same approaches. Was fun while it lasted

This is the guy who wrote the post! Wow, so funny we had the same approaches.

One thing I did which helped results a bit is invert negative queries...So if the query had a NOT in it, remove that, and choose the option with the fewest matches. Seemed to work pretty well.

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by stervy »

nbclark wrote: post #11
stervy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the guy who wrote the post! Wow, so funny we had the same approaches.

One thing I did which helped results a bit is invert negative queries...So if the query had a NOT in it, remove that, and choose the option with the fewest matches. Seemed to work pretty well.

Ah that's smart. I usually would just read the outputs of my script the opposite way (So find the "min" number of search results, etc.)

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by stervy »

nbclark wrote: post #10
stervy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, Cognetta here :). I also cropped the screenshot before running OCR, but I can still imagine HQ changing its UI frequently to thwart OCR attempts.

Yeah that'd be a simple change for them. I'm happy to know I wasn't alone in this. I knew for sure someone else must be doing the same thing :) How are you taking the screenshots? I made a little hotkey script, but feel I could be a bit quicker on it.

Kind of hacky, but I'm using the shell "screencapture" command and setting the coordinates to the spot on the computer screen where I put the quicktime screen mirroring window

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by [deleted] »

whoisjuan wrote: post #6

He really didn't show how it performs or the actual solution running on a screen. The time you have to answer the question is very short and his solution has to work against 1) Latency of OCR 2) Latency of the Google Query 3) Latency of parsing the result 4) Latency of running the three methods 5) Input of the Answer (which needs to be performed by a human reading reading the output from the computer screen). Can som…

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Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by dplgk »

yread wrote: post #15

It's amazing that trivia games are still so hot in mobile. They were very popular 10-15 years ago as well though running via premium SMS and scamy subscriptions

This is different in that it's a live game show, with a host, where everyone competes with each other in real time.

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by applecrazy »

This article practically rips off my article as well as an article I cited in that post, which I submitted earlier this week. If you put both articles side-by-side, they have the same structure and a fairly similar approach to the problem. While this could be a coincidence (and honestly, I don’t care), I’m still a little miffed that the author didn’t bother to cite his inspiration.

The post in question:

https://applecrazy.github.io/blog/posts/protect-trivia-from-...

Proof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944171

Re: I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

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Post by orf »

neoh wrote: post #16

Well done, you botched together a basic program in a some what convoluted way. Is this really hacker news worthy? Also an overlay or scripting app, memory address reading or an MITM attack are all much better approaches. Still pointless posting it here though.

Stop.
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