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by gampleman 159 days ago
Since you're from an Orthodox background, perhaps you can consider having the books from an actual Orthodox bible? For instance it is missing Wisdom of Solomon, Sirrah and others.

Edit: I'd also appreciate an RSS feed so that I can get notified when a new puzzle is released.
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egglemonsoup 159 days ago
Thank you so much for noticing. I didn't even know there was a difference between Orthodox/Catholic and Protestant canons until a week after the site was live.

I spent a decent amount of time trying to add the Deuterocanonical books. Ultimately I put it on hold, because I was worried that adding those books would make a challenging game even harder (at least for my initial audience of 20 family and friends). I also wondered if adding those books would put off any Protestant visitors... but I see their omission has caught your attention, that's Orthodox 1, Protestant 0. I'll find an elegant way to work them in.

And I never thought of adding an RSS feed! I'll add that to the todo!

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graemep 159 days ago
The Catholic canon has a lot of those, but not all so including just those common to both would still be something in the majority of Christian's Bibles. Not in the canon does not mean valueless or bad so I think a lot of people will still find books not in their denomination's canon of interest and may have read them.

Maybe offer options on which canon? Does not work well with daily format though. OTOH I would like to play more than once a day!

It is difficult. Maybe weighting towards the new testament (i.e. non-random selection) would make it easier? I think a lot of us are more familiar with it.

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thevillagechief 159 days ago
It's fine to add the books, when you do, I hope the elegant way gives one the option to enable/disable them. Otherwise you're probably going to miss out on one audience or the other.
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junpfker 159 days ago
> I didn't even know there was a difference between Orthodox/Catholic and Protestant canons until a week after the site was live.

That's because you are a believer.

Knowledge of apocrypha and gnostic gospels is suppressed by the power structures of the church.

Hilarious to worry about "putting off" protestants by including orthodox books rather than the whole believing those people will suffer an eternity of pain and suffering because they believe the same god but the wrong way(TM).

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