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Puzzle #7: Wikipedia flashcards
Puzzle #7: Wikipedia flashcards
For your big puzzle, use the Wikipedia Pack to recreate this guessing game.
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Evan Brooks
Originally published 11/30/2018
We did flags but let your autodidactic heart be your guide. If you hook it up right, you won't need any copy/pasting.
Designing the puzzle
Puzzle #7 draws its inspiration from fellow Codans Kenny and Himanshu, who used the MLB pack to create a flashcard game for themselves: a doc. Intrigued by the idea of a flashcards challenge, the puzzle team decided to reconstruct it with the Wikipedia pack.
Our first version looked like this:
An early prototype
We eventually landed on a Select list as the guessing mechanism rather than buttons. This let us build the whole puzzle with a single table.
The finished puzzle
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