"10 cans of baked beans" vs "A gorilla" A real stumper there, gotta check my math on baked bean can sizes!
It doesn't say the age of the gorilla!
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#32I like it.
I got most everything right until it asked about the moon compared to some huge number of elephants and again with tyranosaurus rexes. I picked moon both times and was wrong. I felt like those are mathematics questions that don't test your sense of scale as much as the rest because there's just no real-life experience.
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#33I 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)
I don't know if I was just lucky but I also did a lot of them (where's a counter?) and had all of them right.
I think the game should try to pick answers that are closer to each other. Perhaps even have an inconsistent difficulty so some questions are easier than others.
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#34Fun! Some feedback: 1. Spruce up the design to make seeing the answer more of a "fun" experience 2. Button to share an answer on social media 2. Button to send a question to a friend
TBH my HTML and CSS is so rusty. I haven't built a webpage in about a decade! I love number 2 and number 2. That's awesome, especially sending a question to a friend. Love it.
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#35That was wonderfully silly. But some comparators are vague, like "a can" or "a teabag" (used vs unused is a lot of weight difference). But making things more specific could detract from the silliness.
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#36Stupid game is my favourite kind of game. Great job!
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#37For those that are curious (yes, I realize this takes no effort to find):
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#38I know this is going to remind us to watch the "Monty Python Witch Trial" scene. https://youtube.com/watch?v=X2xlQaimsGg
Aww man, I'm going to have to watch that again tonight. True story: in one of my tech jobs me and my boss had a game to try to get Monty Python quotes into meetings. In a client meeting I talked about search engine behaviour and how you don't want the search engine to just return any old results like "I found this spoon" (Life Of Brian). My boss nearly fainted trying not to laugh. Nobody else got it.
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#39> 1000 tons of bricks
This option was strange, because all other options don't compare concrete weigh but weight of objects.
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#40Hug of Death. I'll try again in a couple of hours.
Yeah right. I'm trying to send messages of apology to my sysadmin (a FOAF). I bet they hate me.