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Hey,
just wanna say thanks for everyone who has been playing the grid over the course of the past month. I added some new features:
- Added hints. They will automatically be unlocked once you have two or more wrong guesses. They always point you to the answer given most often by other players before
- Added a live scoreboard while you're completing a grid showing your current points and rank
- There's an explainer text to all your guesses now telling you why a player you guessed matches the cell or not
- Added a tab to the grid that shows the most common answers of all players and where you rank with your answer
- The points for every answer are now calculated taking into consideration all answers from all players on all grids to measure more precisely how common your answer is. As usual you get more points for guessing players that haven't been guessed much before
- For every 10 grid you complete, you get to choose one of tomorrows categories for the grid
- For every 25 grids you complete, you get a free hint at the next grid you play
- There's also a bunch of new categories. We're up to 80 different categories now
Let me know if you would like to see any other features. And have fun.
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Love the game so far. Two issues that I noticed, that aren't particularly big, but still can trip you up:
- Players with the same name
From the top of my head, I can't think of too many - mostly Bunny, Rain and Happy. With Happy it seems easy, I think most people remember the russian now-WC3 GOAT more than the korean terran, same with Rain...but with Bunny, it already gets trickier. Sure, Denmark-Bunny was one of the pre-Serral Foreigners to win against Koreans, but Korea-Bunny played for much longer.
- Player-Name changes
That is probably even trickier, but there are players who were known under different names for quite a while. Again, not a huge issue, but when you try to think about a "South American Player with M" or and your brain is stuck on "MajOr"...
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Hey, glad to see you play daily. Both issues are valid.
- Players with the same name: So far it works like this: If for example one Happy would be a valid answer for a cell and another Happy wouldn't, then the game will always choose the valid answer. So you cannot get a wrong answer just because there's several players with the same nickname. If multiple players with the same nickname are valid answers, the game will choose one to display, but it will be the same player for all users, so everyone gets the same points for it (respectively considering how many have chosen the answer). At some point i might come up with a better solution, but i think for now it works fine.
- Player-nickname changes: Yeah, i would have to run an extra database with all the alternate nicknames players used to have. You won't believe how often some change their nickname throughout the years. And if i do that you will run into the above problem with multiple people sharing nicknames over the years even more often. I think we'll have to go with "What's the nickname of that guy today?" for practical reasons. But i think about it.
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If this is pulled from Liquipedia, prolly should filter out B-tier events or below. Yeah, it's fun for me to know a bunch of French players have padded their finalists #'s in Underdogs, but ionno if that's the purpose of the game.
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The data is from our own database and the cutoff are tournaments with a prize pool of $500+
So actually, knowing (or learning) obscure facts about french Underdogs-tournaments and other not so well known players and tournament IS the purpose of the game and will be rewarded with more points. Otherwise you could just fill most cells with the same 20-30 answers.
If there's a specific category though where you think it's too absurd, let me know and i look into it. Usually for all cells there's enough well-known players as valid answers.
How would the game be more fun for you?
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On August 03 2026 17:43 Waxangel wrote:
If this is pulled from Liquipedia, prolly should filter out B-tier events or below. Yeah, it's fun for me to know a bunch of French players have padded their finalists #'s in Underdogs, but ionno if that's the purpose of the game.
Excuse me, do you have any idea how often "oh hey, that guy won the ESL Meisterschaft!" saved my bacon in this game already?
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Update:
- Added 30+ new categories
- In every cell you can now see how many viable answers there are.
- Tweaked the algorithm that creates boards so that categories repeat less often and the variety is bigger.
- After finishing a grid there is a new learn tab which shows you all the viable answers.
--> Starcraft 2 Daily Grid
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