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Re:Game about Data of America by arjie on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:59AM (#47284917)
This is greatly enjoyable. It reminds me of Hans Rosling's little quizzes which he claims show that chimpanzees (random pickers) are smarter than professors on his hand-picked questions. It would be cool if it had an adaptive difficulty based on how good you are getting, giving you questions that are closer and closer in value.
Re:Game about Data of America by fidicen on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:44AM (#47285423)
Thank you for playing, I'll check out Hans Roslings' quizzes and add an adaptive difficulty feature for future development. I currently have a minimum difference of like 20% to make the game reasonable.
Re:Game about Data of America by zvr on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:51AM (#47286110)
Even better would be an advanced user setting, allowing to set the difference percentage. I find it illuminating to answer questions with 100% (or more), when one answer is at least double the other -- and still make mistakes.
Re:Game about Data of America by fidicen on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:31PM (#47290702)
I'll workshop an advanced user setting that can control difficulty for future updates, I may add something like a topic toggle as well
Re:Game about Data of America by soperj on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:04AM (#47285202)
Ahh, this about the US only. Not America.
Re:Game about Data of America by ministryofwarp on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:20AM (#47285661)
Its about the Gulf of America. Arguments persist about its Easternmost boundary but in the west it extends from Baja California to British Columbia.
Re:Game about Data of America by maniacwhat on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:58AM (#47286143)
The is surprisingly fun. One improvement would be to show the relative difference visually when it tells you the answer, like in bar chat form so at a glance you can tell how different they are.
Re:Game about Data of America by fidicen on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:32PM (#47290711)
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll have to figure out how to show the difference when the other value is bigger/smaller, and also when it's dramatically different (i.e. 152x bigger or smaller)
Re:Game about Data of America by mcrchopra2 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @10:02PM (#47293956)
This is awesome! Have really been enjoying the game.
Re:Game about Data of America by soul_grafitti on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:12AM (#47305117)
Cool game, but you need more data. Would be interesting to pull from current events also.