Puzzle #7: Wikipedia flashcards

For your big puzzle, use the Wikipedia Pack to recreate this guessing game.

Evan Brooks

Originally published 11/30/2018

For your big puzzle, use the

Wikipedia Pack⁠

to recreate this guessing game.

We did flags but let your autodidactic heart be your guide. If you hook it up right, you won't need any copy/pasting.

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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

Guess the MLB player’s nickname⁠

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:

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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.

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The finished puzzle

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