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To be honest, I weighed a can on my kitchen scales :-)
And how did you weigh the gorilla?
According to my reckoning, on his kitchen scales ;)
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#12This is fun, well done! Also: 700,000,000 peas weighs more than a tyrannosaurus rex?! I need to re-evaluate my perception of the weight of a pea.
That is a lot of peas. I might have some maths wrong in there I'll admit. I hacked it all together in day.
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#13I did about 20 questions and didn't miss one. Because most plants, animals, etc are made of water, you really just have to compare volume. I found that visualizing the order of magnitude of the volume was a pretty good strategy for estimating weight. (Water has a density of about 1000 kg/m3)
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#14simple idea executed well, that's what makes the best games, maybe this will be the next wordle? :)
Aww, thank you. My friend suggested weighdle as a name but I already had the site up!
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#15Advice: make the answer much more visible. First text, visually separated (bigger font, bold, line ...), green/red. Separate the explanation part into its own block of text.
Don’t do green red for colorblind.
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#16simple idea executed well, that's what makes the best games, maybe this will be the next wordle? :)
Really fun game! There's no social incentive to share with others, or hook to return to play again, though. I learned a lot about how much thing weigh though.
Thank you! Yeah, I have been meaning to add that. I just copy and paste! I want to keep a track of your best winning streak and have achievements.
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#17I love that you are using plain JS for this. I was the kid who unscrewed the Rubik's cube and screwed it back together because I am too dumb solve that.
What is the deal with min_mass_kg and max_mass_kg?
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#18I did about 20 questions and didn't miss one. Because most plants, animals, etc are made of water, you really just have to compare volume. I found that visualizing the order of magnitude of the volume was a pretty good strategy for estimating weight. (Water has a density of about 1000 kg/m3)
Edit: sorry, misread. Wow. My best is about 5 and I've played it. Solidly for the last 3 days!
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#19I did about 15 questions waiting for the game to "end", not realizing it would go on forever.
IMO if the game is infinite, count how many questions I get correct in a row, and have the game end when I get one wrong. Keep track of my high score and display it somewhere on the page, so I have a baseline target to beat. That way the game is replayable and now has a metric for how well someone plays it.
I got all questions right except for the ones involving the moon... for some reason I got all those wrong. Moon is big!
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#20Advice: make the answer much more visible. First text, visually separated (bigger font, bold, line ...), green/red. Separate the explanation part into its own block of text.
Don’t do green red for colorblind.
As long as there's also a non-color differentiator (like a checkmark / X) I think it's fine. Just like traffic lights having different positions. The word itself is possibly enough, although on the other hand words take longer to process than shapes/colors so best to offer a shape if also offering a color.