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by drdeca 545 days ago
Neat game!

I feel like the “if possible only one word” may make things a bit weird due to no fuzzy matching. I put “Sherlock Holmes” for one thing, and the expected answer was “Sherlock”. Also I misspelled the name of a movie.

Maybe adding some sort of estimation of whether the user’s answer is probably referring to the same thing, could be good? Like, maybe give half a point if the user text has a lot of overlap with the target text, compared to the length of the texts, assuming the text lengths aren’t too different?

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Hi, thank you! Fuzzy search is a great idea and I just added a very generous (%50) fuzzy matching! I hope you'll like it.

I'm also thinking about ordering the questions from easy and fun to more challenging ones.