Show HN: Countdown – Twitter bot which tweets answers to the Countdown TV show

Post by stbullard » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

jdkram wrote: post #10

benjojo12 wrote: post #7

Wow nice! Didn't realise this had been posted to HN, if you have any questions about how it works (although I have made a pretty descriptive readme.md) then just ask! It was alot of fun making it!

When you mention that it responds at speed, what's kind of time is there between the word being shown and the answer? Very impressive stuff :). Thanks for the detailed documentation too.

Post by drakaal » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

Post by abava » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 7:26 PM UTC

Post by benjojo12 » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 7:34 PM UTC

jdkram wrote: post #10

benjojo12 wrote: post #7

Wow nice! Didn't realise this had been posted to HN, if you have any questions about how it works (although I have made a pretty descriptive readme.md) then just ask! It was alot of fun making it!

When you mention that it responds at speed, what's kind of time is there between the word being shown and the answer? Very impressive stuff :). Thanks for the detailed documentation too.

Post by unfunco » Tue, Dec 24, 2013, 7:44 PM UTC

jessedhillon wrote: post #14

stbullard wrote: post #12

Being unfamiliar with Countdown, I was curious about the output format; looking around, I found the author's original announcement[1], which shows the following: "For 'EOEFPRCTSN' Word prefects is 8 letters long. Word perfectos is 9 letters long." [1] http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1260790&p=42291145&vie... - also seen at http://twitter.com/countdownanswer

I knew I had heard of Countdown before at some point in the past. I searched my bookmarks and found this video, which apparently really happened in one of their episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHhw_x-gHxI&feature=youtube_...