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Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order

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186 points maskinberg | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 06:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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maskinberg ◴[23 Jun 25 06:40 UTC] No.44353063[source]▶
TIMDLE Jun 23 34/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 0p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 7p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
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gus_massa ◴[24 Jun 25 00:11 UTC] No.44361534[source]▶
32/36: Are you the author? People is friendlier when the author is around answering questions. How are the events selected? Some are well known and some are very local.

The point system is easier to explain if each unselected spot transform into a star that flies to the point counter.

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maskinberg ◴[24 Jun 25 10:05 UTC] No.44364514[source]▶
Yes, I'm the author and this is a hobby project of mine. The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day. I have tried to come up with a large variety of categories, aiming to make it both interesting, challenging and fun for people from all over the world. But the span of categories could definitely be improved. I had a couple of iterations on both the points system and the layout a few months ago, and felt satisfied with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely take it into consideration for further work on the site.

I saw that it also made its way onto Metafilter - did you by any chance have anything to do with that?

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1. bbor ◴[24 Jun 25 14:14 UTC] No.44366510[source]▶
Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at once, go-until-mistake, etc.).

I have some experience crawling+processing Wikipedia dumps in python, if you ever find the need for a new sourcing system :) Email in bio!