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Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈Nice lightning <a href="https://c.im/tags/HangTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HangTrek</a> round. I’ve been trying to turn down the difficulty on some of these, but they still tend to run a long time. I think of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/startrekgifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#startrekgifs</a> game. If you know the answer, start typing. There are frequently several right guesses in the first thirty seconds. It’s a different type of game. In particular, it’s automated (a bot).I guess the albatross with <a href="https://c.im/tags/HangTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HangTrek</a> is running the next puzzle, which is an avowed deterrent to answering. Instead of racing to answer once they see it, players tend to hold back. The vibe tends to be much more hesitant. Not much is gained by answering. Maybe nothing much is gained in the GIF game, but there is a scoreboard. I may see if I can come up with something of a scoreboard for this game, even just a shared spreadsheet that’s manually updated after every puzzle.The drag of hosting a long-running puzzle is continually coming up with new polls, trying not to make mistakes by reusing letters already eliminated, failing to notice all the Es, leaving out whole words between rounds, etc. I guess the host “wins” by racking up 10 wrong guesses, but I’d rather see someone get it. I’m always eager to trot out my “solved” toot & get on to the next puzzle.I suppose the polls don’t have to run so long either. Sometimes I do freebies, like revealing all the Ns or something. I could do more hints.I also think it’s nice when it’s a bit more participatory. It tends to be dead quiet until the later rounds when the guessing starts.Maybe other hosts enjoy running long ones more than I do. Maybe shortening them up would make it easier to host & get more answers & hosts. Anyway, just glad one took less than a week. 🎉

Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈If any software engineer types are looking for a project around <a href="https://c.im/tags/HangTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HangTrek</a> or <a href="https://c.im/tags/SarlaccPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SarlaccPit</a>, I’d love to be able to have a scoreboard. I was thinking you could write a script in Python or whatever your language of choice is & then crawl through the Solved toots. A simple start would be just to list a running total of how many puzzles each player has solved. You can get fancier by tracking how many rounds each solution took, who the host was, etc.I was thinking it might be easier to start with the <a href="https://c.im/tags/startrekgifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#startrekgifs</a> game, which is automated, so there is less variation to deal with. Everything comes from one account. And so on. In the word games, there are different hosts & each one does things a little differently, so digging out the information might be a little trickier. The GIF game keeps its own scoreboard, but I wouldn’t mind seeing some different stats, like a summary of each week in addition to the running totals the bot publishes.Food for thought.

Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈<a href="https://troet.cafe/@deusfigendi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@deusfigendi</a> File this among possible minor improvements.Sometimes because of idiosyncrasies of the Fediverse, the winning reply is not replicated out to all instances. In these cases, I sometimes have to dig to see if a puzzle has already been solved, by whom & what the answer was. I can see a reply from <a href="https://friendsofdesoto.social/@startrekgifs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@startrekgifs</a> saying “[c],” but the original post isn’t boosted because it’s not available on my instance. I can see the mention in your reply. I cannot see the solution toot in the replies to the original, even after it’s boosted. I have to open the original on the web from the host instance (“Open original page”). Or if I can see the poster’s profile in a different UI, I can go to their replies & dig out the winning guess.It occurs to me we have a similar situation in the word games (Hang Trek & Sarlacc Pit), though in fact worse, since it’s more decentralized (no single account posts the puzzles). Sometimes players guess privately, though I try to discourage that. Every puzzle ends, however, with a solution toot from the host, which includes the correct answer and credit to the winning player (along with the albatross of hosting the next round). It also tends to hang directly off of a poll toot, so there’s never a missing intermediate toot because of failure to replicate across instances. If you can see the original poll, you can see the solution & it’s easy to find.I was thinking you could do something similar:1. Reply to the original puzzle post instead of (or in addition to) the winning reply. 2. Include an @ to credit the winner. 3. Include the correct answer (title, ep no, whatever).With the word games, #3 is easier, since there’s exactly one correct answer. In your case, you accept a lot of different formats, even multiple languages. So you could end up with “The Trouble With Tribbles,” “Kennen Sie Tribbles?” or “TOS 2x15,” etc. I suppose you could just echo back whatever the winner posted. Or you could have a standardized answer or even a link to Memory Alpha or IMDb or something.So it’s probably more than a little work for something that’s not a huge problem. But it might make things clearer. Food for thought, at least.<a href="https://c.im/tags/startrekgifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#startrekgifs</a>

Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈Welcome to another edition of <a href="https://c.im/tags/HangTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HangTrek</a>, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarTrek</a>-themed word game. This is the “extra” that has been pinned to my profile for a few months. <a href="https://c.im/@darth_hideout/113744324282908934" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://c.im/@darth_hideout/113744324282908934</a>You start with 2 clues: It’s from <a href="https://c.im/tags/StarTrekTOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarTrekTOS</a>. And if this scene appeared on <a href="https://c.im/tags/startrekgifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#startrekgifs</a>, it would be ambiguous, meaning the exact same footage has appeared more than once in the franchise.We are looking for a 9 word quote of 1, 10, 11, 9, 8, 4, 9, 2 & 7 letters, respectively. Note the punctuation. One word is hyphenated. We’ll start with a freebie: There are 6 Is._ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _, / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _, / _ I _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ I _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _There are no wrong guesses yet.This is the 1st poll & will run for 24 hours.All are welcome to vote and guess at any time. Others may appreciate a CW when you guess.Rules & previous HangTreks may be found here: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@chrysomeles/112461799676962075" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@chrysomeles/112461799676962075</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/allstartrek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@allstartrek</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#games</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/puzzles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#puzzles</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AllStarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AllStarTrek</a>

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