it's kinda of annoying that i don't get to try and solve them myself.
maybe when i've added a few more i'll be able to go back and do random backissues and not remember them.
― koogs, Thursday, 9 June 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
more damage today. oh well.
did a noddy, dynamic Previous page, which should update daily - http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/bookish/previous.html
surprisingly it wasn't much code because the data class is clever enough to know that date - 10 is the previous month (although date - 0 is yesterday, somehow). uses a *string* compare to make sure it doesn't go back beyond 20220601, which is lol.
― koogs, Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
Fun one today, got it in 70.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 10 June 2022 07:50 (one year ago) link
Got it in the end, 217 guesses. Unlike Redactle, where you can try topics (book, country, animal etc) finding it a lot more difficult to narrow these down. Would like to see a lot of the two letter words (it, to, by….) filled in already.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 10 June 2022 09:19 (one year ago) link
yeah my first 20 or more guesses are usually pretty much the same - all two letter words, pronouns, is/can/have & conjugations, there, then, say, said, why where who etc...
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 10 June 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link
i was worried they would make the titles too obvious too often. but i could easily add some more. might do some analysis this weekend. (plan is to define enough games to fill out the rest of the month and then i can use that set as input)
― koogs, Friday, 10 June 2022 10:23 (one year ago) link
227 today, cheated in the end when I got a half completed sentence. Would never have got it otherwise as I didn’t know the book or the author.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 June 2022 08:47 (one year ago) link
these are all still from the top 75 downloads at project Gutenberg. yes, one i haven't read, but, oddly it was mentioned in the podcast i was listening to this morning.
― koogs, Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:36 (one year ago) link
I got the authors name straight away, struggling to remember the title.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Saturday, 11 June 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
I remembered. definitely an odd entry for the top 75 and not one you could work out if you didn't know it.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Saturday, 11 June 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
the weekly top 100 or so can be a bit faddish, i find. and there are some obvious things that aren't in it.
anyway, i have another 20 games ready to go, another 20 or so downloaded and awaiting editing. another 20 things on my want-to-read list 8(
― koogs, Saturday, 11 June 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
1 6373 the 2 3757 and 3 3144 of 4 2730 to 5 2633 a 6 1876 in 7 1773 i 8 1523 he 9 1483 was 10 1358 it 11 1320 that 12 881 his 13 874 with 14 871 for 15 853 as 16 832 is 17 781 had 18 772 you 19 764 not 20 698 at 21 683 but 22 664 on 23 577 be 24 569 all 25 564 we 26 548 her 27 536 have 28 520 my 29 491 they 30 468 by 31 457 there 32 453 she 33 450 him 34 442 so 35 437 which 36 427 this 37 426 me 38 397 one 39 392 from 40 388 were 41 383 said 42 359 no 43 352 are 44 344 or 45 326 when 46 325 out 47 323 would 48 310 what 49 305 who 50 301 them
again i'm thinking about difficulty levels... top 45 for easy mode, 30 for medium, 15 for hard...
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
yeah Carmilla, i guess the easy way in was the author's name, which is quite odd given the 4 words.
today's is easier
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
I got today's in 7 after rattling off some two letter words without thinking, should've been a bit sharper.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Sunday, 12 June 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link
> today's is easier
especially with the 30 free words now. 8(
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
(i think ledge got in before the update)
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
Honestly, as a player who just plays for the fun of it, rather than getting the best score, I'd actually prefer *no* words filled in at the start. I don't mind typing in filler words, but trying to work out which ones are needed and which ones aren't is slightly annoying to me.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
ha, that's like the opposite of what other people want...
i will add options (eventually). need to learn how to store options first though...
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
(i don't disagree, i mean today's had 60% of the title in the free words)
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I figured I'd be in the minority in that opinion. It's just a bit weird if "he" is already filled in but you still have to put in "his" etc. One option is to fill in more of the words, but another option is to fill in way fewer. Maybe just the articles, the basic conjunctions ('and'/'but') and participles of 'to be'. That would still risk giving away some titles ('The _____ is a ______ ______' for instance) but would be an understandable format for why those particular filler words are given.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
And I will say that 'The ____ of the ____' is fairly nondescript and could apply to several titles! Obviously the lower-score seekers will pinpoint those possibilities and do the letter-counting thing to narrow it down, but I played happily for a good while before even attempting the title (it was fairly simple to get, true).
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 June 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
I wonder if you could leave the title fully redacted even if it has free filler words in, or if that would be too confusing.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Sunday, 12 June 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
yeah, i did think of a fully redacted title but it'd require you to enter reserved words to reveal them, which is currently trapped.
(um, could also remove reserved words from the internal title array, you won't be able to enter them and won't ever see them until it's solved, which seems a bit off)
today has mostly been trying to stop the unwanted scrolling. turns out the page width isn't 100% because of the vertical scroll bars. and using that space adds a horizontal scroll bar... i am getting there...
(and adding games up to the end of the month, and beyond)
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
new version at new url - https://acdean.github.io/bookish/ - let github do the hosting, also easier for me to update - no ftp...
cracked the layout, i think. boxes are the right size and scroll as they should (nice new purple scroll markers too). some of the text needs resizing (the guesses list) and the about and previous buttons are placeholders. html still not great for this layout stuff.
this version also has the hard redacting. no counting characters for you!
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
and all of a sudden it was a quarter to midnight...
― koogs, Sunday, 12 June 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/
now with options - add as many words as you like, choose the redacting block type (3 different styles). choose from the previous games. marvel at the finally centred list of guesses.
― koogs, Monday, 13 June 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/index.html <- same link not hindered by ilx hyperlink bug!
― koogs, Monday, 13 June 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
I like the options! Yesterday's was a gimme, today's... not so much. I guessed le and la at 230 but forgot about les (and didn't linger on the title or author) for another 250 guesses.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 09:33 (one year ago) link
these aren't obscure books by any means and it still takes hundreds of guesses, unless the title's obvious.
(although this one starts a bit atypically iirc. the fact there are 3 levels of numbering is maybe a clue that it's a long book, but, yes, it is a bit sneaky)
the recent penguin classics version translates the title, at least in the intro, but the cover is the usual. would 'The Wretched' have helped though?
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
bookish 20220615total guesses: 36total hits: 34total misses: 2percentage correct: 94
the 30 words i added at the start really up the percentage because they are pretty much guaranteed to be hits (but not always). in redactle they wouldn't count towards the total or the percentage. maybe i should do the same.
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
Took me 337, and I got it only after I decided to guess possible authors.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Wednesday, 15 June 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
i had to remove the accent 8(
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
You usually get a bit of a "vibe" off the work after a while (is it spooky? Stuffy? Romantic?) but it took me ages to get anything off this one - took me guessing until I'd revealed "I beheld his black eyes" and then I had it straight away.
I definitely play pretty differently to other people but I confess I did get a great satisfaction out of getting Crime and Punishment in only two guesses.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
updates at https://acdean.github.io/bookish/index.html - be sure to hit ctrl-f5 because its a bit stubborn about using the old version otherwise.
no visual changes (oh, i really need to add a version number) but better behaviour of the guess list - click on a previous guess to re-highlight that word. re-entering a word does the same. redactle has this nailed, i am slowly getting there.
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
20220616 - after nearly 300 guesses I don't know what the hell this is but I like it. (Hope I haven't read it before and forgotten!)
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Thursday, 16 June 2022 11:26 (one year ago) link
> I don't know what the hell this is but I like it
i predict: you will regret saying this
― koogs, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
Just gonna hide my entire response.
fucking lol! I also thought "I don't know what it is but I like it", because it seemed particularly dark and dystopian, and I enjoy dark and dystopian. But then my eyebrow started to raise when I was uncovering that the Bad Big Brother element seemed to be communal life, and I wondered if it was some old right-wingy perspective... took me a long time to work out that it was VERY much a right-wing perspective, and oh the shame of being intrigued by it. The shame, the shame.
― emil.y, Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I had a feeling that since it was so distinct but ringing no bells that it might be bad. But not so bad. So bad and wrong.
Oh well at least it wasn't mein kampf.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Thursday, 16 June 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
particularly hard because non-english name - ??? ???? - looks like it should be easy to guess but... i think mein kampf is also in the list
― koogs, Thursday, 16 June 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
Didn't get todays, I haven't read it in 30+ years; title/author formatting threw me, I thought the title was the author and the subtitle/author the title.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 17 June 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
i did toy with making the (little known) subtitle part of the title, so you had to guess it, but am kinda pleased it threw people off anyway (sorry)
i went to test tomorrow's and found i couldn't remember it and got about 200 words in before i did remember. wouldn't've got it otherwise tbh.
― koogs, Friday, 17 June 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
(fwiw i always put a br between (title (and subtitle) and author) and (the rest of the text). but not always between book/volume/part/chapter+their names and the next thing)
<h1>title(<h2>subtitle)<h2>author<br/><h2>part x<h2>whatever<p>it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times...
― koogs, Friday, 17 June 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
I don't mind really, it's more fun trying to guess without using title/author - I might start not looking at them at all at the beginning.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 17 June 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
have up after 200 today, worried that there was a bug. turns out i just can't remember famous book titles i spent 10 minutes editing about a week ago.
― koogs, Sunday, 19 June 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
That took me far longer than a book I know and like should have done!
― emil.y, Sunday, 19 June 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
such me as difficult because the title was a name - you weren't going to chance upon it whilst entering English words
― koogs, Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
struck me as...
I went for 250 guesses without looking at the author or title. Too hard. I guessed don at 296 but got no hits - maybe there was a space at the end, do you trim the input? it worked 30 guesses later, after I tried la and then mancha.
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
> maybe there was a space at the end
yeah, don't do that!
(fixed. now restricts input to a-z 0-9 and apostrophe)
also fixed something i noticed yesterday - it should scroll to the word in the guess list if you've entered it before
― koogs, Sunday, 19 June 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
today's obviously by some kook, got it from the title in 68 (I never studied him in philosophy, didn't even recognise the title as one of his)
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Monday, 20 June 2022 08:53 (one year ago) link
Ah cool! I got it straight away but I think it might be one of those ones where the punctuation messes with it realising that you completed the title.
No worries if this is a project you don't want to be tied to forever, but I will say that I play daily and enjoy it a lot.
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
oh, you are right
i've typed in all the words in the title and it's still saying i have the following left to type:
Array [ "", "" ]
so, yes, a genuine bug (and i should've checked that). i do wonder if the other bug report from above is apple converting an input ' to the curly version, because i couldn't reproduce. but this isn't that.
october's theme has helped with any ennui i may've had given that i have more ideas than i have days. but, yeah, that's 130 i've done now...
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
bug fixed - the opening and ending quotes confused it. the fix is to not add empty words to the title words list.
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
rats, i thought i'd done up to the end of the month but there's a hole on the 28th -31st.
i've added one for today and 1101 - 1103, will try fill the gap appropriately later. (all october was horror stories of some stripe or other, including an entire week of vampire stories)
― koogs, Monday, 31 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
calamity. did a bunch of new games the other day and didn't push them so it's been broken the last week.
and i checked the 'previous games' page and there was a bug - using "+" to concat two numbers added them instead (which i didn't see when i wrote it because of the way i padded single digit mm and dd numbers which converted them to strings)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
All the recent games come up "Something has gone wrong..."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:55 (eleven months ago) link
yeah, i ran out of books / enthusiasm. there are about 10 month's-worth, so anything from 0601 to 1231 and 0101 to 03xx will work.
ie
https://acdean.github.io/bookish/index.html?0328
― koogs, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:34 (eleven months ago) link
(0404 is the latest)
― koogs, Friday, 12 May 2023 14:37 (eleven months ago) link
ok, tidied that up now - if it can't find a game for 'today' then it'll link to the new archive page that lists all available games so you can choose.
if anyone has ideas for books to add then let me know. (the full list of 306 (spoilers!) is at https://acdean.github.io/bookish/titles.txt)
― koogs, Sunday, 14 May 2023 13:49 (eleven months ago) link