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316 points jasonsmiles | 8 comments | | HN request time: 0.773s | source | bottom

Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
1. chrysoprace ◴[] No.45652526[source]
Cool game, but when I was doing the map game it gave me the same article about 5 times.

It's also not clear if there's a goal in each game. So far as I can tell it goes on forever.

Edit: both the lock and dial game modes put me into the same dial game mode; I'm going to guess it's a bug. They also seem to be for the same article.

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2. was_a_dev ◴[] No.45653898[source]
I played the Map mode and got the same page several times, and then the game ended with half my "life" left. It was really fun but I passed a lot of rounds just on memory
3. CrazyStat ◴[] No.45655134[source]
I also played the map game, and in addition to getting the same article several times I got two articles that had some of the same photos but whose locations were ~100 miles apart.

After nine rounds it suddenly ended and I was confused.

4. jakeydus ◴[] No.45655422[source]
Same here! I got the Parthenon five or so times. On the bright side, I know very well now that the Parthenon is not actually in Athens!
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5. dwringer ◴[] No.45655722[source]
It is, though? I also had the same map come up about five times, showing a picture of the Parthenon and the Athenian acropolis, but it consistently insisted that these were of Orchomenos, which also had an acropolis but AFAIK is not the same; they are about 80 miles apart.
6. djeastm ◴[] No.45656157[source]
It's not?
7. chrchr ◴[] No.45656569[source]
I played the map mode and got a map, with labels!
8. jakeydus ◴[] No.45657355[source]
edit: it appears that Orchomenus also has an area of the city that Wikipedia refers to as the acropolis; I'm wondering if the game pulls the acropolis data from the Athenian Acropolis but then mistakenly attributes it to Orchomenus? I thought it might be because some great physics discovery was made there (given the daily challenge genre) but I haven't seen anything.