[HN Gopher] Tradle ___________________________________________________________________ Tradle Author : tantalor Score : 255 points Date : 2022-03-10 18:57 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (oec.world) (TXT) w3m dump (oec.world) | user- wrote: | #Tradle #4 6/6 | | https://oec.world/en/tradle | | Sharing output is kinda misleading, I thought it would share the | %s and direction. | Laforet wrote: | Interesting, who knows the top export of Macedonia are | centrifuges? | joshstrange wrote: | I might consider adding whatever the attribute is this week (I | know it's changed over the years) to prevent auto-complete. My | 1Password extension keeps trying to fill in my address on the | guessing field. | | EDIT: Editing the page with some of the ways to disable | autocomplete [0] don't seem to be working but I'm not sure if | that's because 1Password binds at page load and doesn't care what | I change using DevTools. In the end this is clearly 1Password's | problem [0] but I sympathize with them even as I am negatively | affected by it. If they had an attribute (like lastpass) we all | know the worst websites/offenders on the planet (banks, intranet | sites, most financial institutions, most site asking for | routing/account numbers, etc) would abuse the hell out of it. | It's bad enough when they try to prevent copy/pasting in. I do | think they should at least provide a way to blacklist sites where | you don't want to use 1Password. | | [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/51686510/1072106 | | [1] https://1password.community/discussion/117501/as-a-web- | devel... | unfocussed_mike wrote: | I've noticed this a whole lot recently -- a whole bunch of | sites inappropriately autocompleting irrelevant things. | atombum wrote: | I had to disable autocomplete recently, neither | autocomplete="false" or autocomplete="off" worked. MDN (source | below) indicates using "new-password, but in my experience | passing in any random string to the autocomplete attribute did | work. | | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securi... | joshstrange wrote: | Yeah, I've taken to just generating a UUID and throwing in | there as I normally have a library to do that on my frontend | projects. | junon wrote: | On mobile I tapped on the boxes to see what they were. The pop | ups have the answer in them. Not very helpful :/ | paxys wrote: | Same on the web | suc_syn wrote: | test | renewiltord wrote: | Text field does not clear when I submit. Chrome on Mac OS. But | game is fun! | druadh wrote: | Seems like a fun guessing game, but the UI wasn't intuitive. I | don't know if my first guess was correct, I thought for a while I | was supposed to interact with the gray boxes, etc. I'd recommend | having some non-dev friends play with it and provide feedback. | | 2nd on the giving geoguessr a run for its money. Or forming a | strategic partnership? "Love tradle? You might like geoguessr, | too!" etc | ghostly_s wrote: | Same, and I was incredibly confused by the wordle-style colored | squares that briefly appeared. I saw them on the '?' page too, | but no explanation of what they mean. I successfully completed | the puzzle and still have no idea what those were. | dwighttk wrote: | Just a % bar for how close you are to the country | geographically | amilios wrote: | Its UI is similar to Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/), it | might be implicitly assuming you're familiar with it already, | in which case the "how close you are geographically" mechanism | makes sense. | klodolph wrote: | I don't think familiarity with Wordle helps much. This UI is | pretty damn confusing. You type in country names, and then a | km value, arrow, and percentage value appears. I have no idea | what these signify. Clicking on the boxes brings up a box | that gives you information but I have no idea how that | information is relevant. | suc_syn wrote: | this is great | pearjuice wrote: | When will we get a Wordle version where we guess the Wordle | clone? | throwesja234123 wrote: | It said to click for more information so I clicked. | | Then is said related searches: What does Sweden export (2019)? | | I tried Sweden and got the answer. | | Seems like a bad UI. | below43 wrote: | Same here. The "more information" gave the country name away. | petepete wrote: | That was fun, but as others have said the UI is a bit confusing. | | Got it in two, thought it was Germany first and the arrow pointed | me in the right direction. | sdze wrote: | Germany immediately was not an option... Volkswagen alone has | like 100 Bln revenue per year. | unfocussed_mike wrote: | I actually missed the significance of the arrow entirely. It's | obvious but I still focussed mostly on the distance. | sarsway wrote: | I was on the same vein, but the petroleum and fish exports | doesn't really fit so I was thinking UK first. In retrospect | though I wasn't considering the total trade value, it narrows | possible countries quite a bit, could make it a bit too easy | maybe? It's probably a lot harder though with less prominent | countries. Why only one per day though! | rsstack wrote: | The distance really confused me. I got a distance of 4,353 km | between a guess and the answer - which is what you get from | Google, but now what you'd say from looking at a map. Border-to- | border they are only 250 km apart. | macintux wrote: | Worldle uses the same calculations, center to center, else | Russia would be just a few miles from the U.S. e.g. | rsstack wrote: | Russia _is_ 4 km from the US :) "Oklahoma to Krasnoyarsky | Krai" makes sense mathematically but is a weird claim to | make. | [deleted] | belkarx wrote: | Add a link to a map maybe? instead of "more information" | [deleted] | yuy910616 wrote: | Ah! I was wondering what car brand, I'm guessing it's Volvo? | muhammadusman wrote: | how does it work? | spullara wrote: | #Tradle #4 1/6 | | https://oec.world/en/tradle | oktwtf wrote: | Okay, that was fun; maybe even a bit educational. I am not the | best with geography, but I was able to guess based off the | distance, got it on my fourth guess. It's not like I'm up to date | on the exports of each nation or anything. | ghaff wrote: | All these geo games that give you distances and directions to | the correct answer would probably reward a little study of | distance scales and how the continents line up. | paxys wrote: | Does "cars 7.5%" mean 7.5% of the country's exports is cars OR | the country supplies 7.5% of the global car market? | spiffytech wrote: | I think it means 7.5% of the country's exports are cars. The | visualization is a treemap, which shows relative sizes of | datapoints. And if you click through to https://oec.world/ and | check a country's data, you can see on the left its exports and | on the right global exporters of the same good. The answer | country is not 7.5% of global exports. | | Other tips: the arrow is the direction the answer country is | from your guess. The km is how far away. | hpkuarg wrote: | The former. | Melatonic wrote: | edit: | | Now I am really confused. It lets me guess again if I reload the | page (no matter what I guess). I only get a few options from | countries to pick (5 total) when I click the box to guess (a | dropdown menu appears). After I used all of the slots it told me | the answer was XXXXX (which was never an option for me to guess). | No idea how this works. | ekabod wrote: | Full of bugs. HN users are not testers. | qurm wrote: | Very informative game, and Friday's is more challenging. | | #Tradle #5 6/6 | | https://oec.world/en/tradle | OGWhales wrote: | > Friday's is more challenging | | Gave that one a go, here is the percentage & direction for my | guesses: https://i.imgur.com/hGyNemi.png | weakwire wrote: | Nice. Easy however to guess the country if you check the code. | Sharing the results doesn't have much value because of that. src= | "https://oec.world/en/visualize/embed/tree_map/hs92/export/sw..." | echelon wrote: | Careful reading the comments here. Several posts contain today's | answer. | pianoben wrote: | Got it in one :) | | Cars + Lumber + Oil narrowed it down pretty well. | perlgeek wrote: | wouldn't that also fit Brazil, for example? | hn_user82179 wrote: | I would've expected soybeans to be in there for Brazil. Also, | I didn't realize Brazil exported any cars! I went off of the | car one and tried to think of the foreign car manufacturers I | see around here (US) and came up with Subaru/Toyota (Japan), | Kia/Nissan (S. Korea), Audi/VW/BMW (Germany), Ferrari/Alfa | Romeo (Italy) and Volvo (Sweden). That narrows it down quite | a bit. Granted I'm not a big car person so I could've been | wrong as I know there are a lot of large carmakers who don't | export to the US. | davidw wrote: | Flubbed the first guess, took a better look and got it on the | second one. | unfocussed_mike wrote: | I got this in three, all quite close countries -- though I | should have got it in one from the kaolin-coated paper bit. | throwaway6532 wrote: | This has a similar interface to Worldle | (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/) which I've been playing a lot. I've | long been a fan of the OEC and always use it when I get curious | about what goes on in a country at a high level, so both of these | things in concert will really help me improve my geography! | desmondw wrote: | I was also excited to add this, but unlike Worldle it doesn't | support imperial units and is pretty unusable on mobile. | Jedd wrote: | > I was also excited to add this, but unlike Worldle it | doesn't support imperial units ... | | I'd say that's a feature. | | It aligns with 98% of the world's countries, and 95% of the | world's population. | XCSme wrote: | I don't understand how it works. | | EDIT: Nevermind, after reading some comments I got it, you are | not supposed to click the big colored boxes. | sdze wrote: | I won at 2nd try. First Italy, then Sweden. | bru wrote: | Web browser is a different language than English (French). When I | try to enter a country whose name isn't the same in English and | French, I get a pop-up saying "Pays inconnu" (unknown country). | Uptrenda wrote: | How many boring wordle clones are you sheep going to upvote? | Wordle sucks | shawndrost wrote: | I feel the need to brag that I guessed Sweden on the first try. I | think that means the product is working! | spamtarget wrote: | One question per day? Really stupid... | ducktective wrote: | Nice! | dna_polymerase wrote: | Remove the "trade" theme. Put a random picture from Google Street | View at the top and give geoguessr a run for their money. | nicky0 wrote: | No you | mappu wrote: | That's a quite good idea for another Wordle | (/Worldle/Globle/...) clone, but i think it could be a separate | project to this one. | cyounkins wrote: | I can't seem to scroll the country list! Firefox 98 on macOS | 12.2. | bee_rider wrote: | I don't really understand what the 'share' button shows. The | first 3 squares seem to be always green, but then the other two | turn yellow or green... based on some sort of closeness or | something? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-10 23:00 UTC)