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Re: Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

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Post by a_c »

solarized wrote: post #36
a_c wrote: post #7

Nicely made! I thought I'm good with flags, and then there come a question of jordan, palestine and two more similar flags. I made a similar but uglier little party game https://geo-dude.com for my kids. Supports up to 4 players

already played it with my kids. its fun !. need to improve the country randomization. south america keep pointing into peru.

If you read this message, can you provide more context please? Are you choosing the "Name the country" mode with question from "Same continent". It might be that south america has only 13 countries in my database, so it appears to be repeated.

I just turned the repo public for your reference.

Country list at https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/server/coun...

Picking a question from a continent is shuffle and then pick question per round, so "pick without replacement" https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/server/inde...

Disclaimer, used a lot of AI so I didn't read every line of code

Re: Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

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Post by a_c »

SamBam wrote: post #40
a_c wrote: post #7

Nicely made! I thought I'm good with flags, and then there come a question of jordan, palestine and two more similar flags. I made a similar but uglier little party game https://geo-dude.com for my kids. Supports up to 4 players

This looks really good, but sometimes it seemed like there was no country to click on for the tiny islands? For St Lucia, for instance, the closest visible country was (I think) Puerto Rico. I clicked on it, and then it showed me where St Lucia was in the middle of the black ocean. As far as I could tell, even zooming in, there was morning to click on there. Same thing happened with Micronesia. There are very few isl…

Hey thanks for checking it out! Really glad the site has more audience than me and my son only and appreciate the feedback!

Mind if I ask which mode were you playing? Was it "Find a country" or "Guess a country"? It might be due to the countries being too small. I maintain a separate small countries list [1] from the bigger ones [2]

[1] https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/public/data...

[2] https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/public/data...

I didn't come up with a good way to show small countries so it is the way it is. Would love to hear suggestion though!

Re: Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

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Post by SamBam »

a_c wrote: post #42
SamBam wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks really good, but sometimes it seemed like there was no country to click on for the tiny islands? For St Lucia, for instance, the closest visible country was (I think) Puerto Rico. I clicked on it, and then it showed me where St Lucia was in the middle of the black ocean. As far as I could tell, even zooming in, there was morning to click on there. Same thing happened with Micronesia. There are very few isl…

Hey thanks for checking it out! Really glad the site has more audience than me and my son only and appreciate the feedback! Mind if I ask which mode were you playing? Was it "Find a country" or "Guess a country"? It might be due to the countries being too small. I maintain a separate small countries list [1] from the bigger ones [2] [1] https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/public/data... [2] https://githu…

Find a country. I tried it again and the very first country was St Lucia again. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/fuhO0lh

Re: Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

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Post by BrenBarn »

There is a great phone app called World Geography Quiz that will quiz you on flags, country shapes, capitals, and all the rest. It has a staged entry thing where you get access to more categories and regions as you play. I'm not affiliated with it or anything, just thought of it when I saw this because it's become a real go-to geo quiz fix for me.
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