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Show HN: A small browser game where you have to guess the year things happened

4 pointsby davjhanalmost 4 years ago

3 comments

davjhanalmost 4 years ago
Hey guys, I want to show off my weekend project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;guess-the-year.davjhan.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;guess-the-year.davjhan.com</a><p>It’s a game where you have to guess the year that famous events happened between 1900 and 2021. Questions range from geo-political conflicts to when inventions and companies were founded. Questions include:<p>- What year was the CIA founded?<p>- What year did the Titanic sink?<p>- What yea was the first Nobel prize awarded?<p>- What year did George Orwell publish Nineteen Eighty-Four?<p>- What year did Calvin Coolidge become president of the United States?<p>Hope you have fun with it. My personal high score is 10, but one of my friends managed to get 24.<p>Here&#x27;s the github repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davjhan&#x2F;guess-the-year-game" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;davjhan&#x2F;guess-the-year-game</a><p>I used<p>- Sveltekit (beta)<p>- TailwindCSS (JIT)<p>- Hosted on Netlify<p>- Plausible Analytics<p>That&#x27;s it! I really recommend SvelteKit to everyone! It&#x27;s awesome!
epsalmost 4 years ago
Very nice, thanks for making it. Clean looking and interesting.<p>One nit is that I&#x27;m absolutely unclear how the scoring works. Sometimes it subtracts 3 lives for being off a bit and sometimes it takes away one life for being off by a lot... or at least it seemed like it. I don&#x27;t think I got a single date exactly, most of them were within 3-5 years. Still scored 13.
leephillipsalmost 4 years ago
It was fun. I got 12 points. Will play again. (Svelte is the best)