You will be shown 10 random numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing what's next. Your task is to put them in order! But beware, if a number cannot be placed, the quiz ends...
The answers change every time
You may safely put the pin down outside the answer boxes
You cannot skip questions as that would destroy the point of the game
Huge thanks to Dimby for helping with the code and playtesting!
It seems that a few people are having issues with the pins with numbers in the left box not showing up. I would love to resolve this, but I have tried and cannot reproduce this on any of my browsers or devices. I therefore unfortunately cannot fix whatever is happening by myself.
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i think the numbers 1-10 down the side are more confusing than helpful. i at first tried putting higher numbers towards the top since that's more intuitive to me. you can switch the order or keep as is but i don't think the side numbers add anything. but great quiz apart from that!
Agreed, I did the same thing - I read and re-read the instructions trying to see if 1 was the highest or 10 was the highest, and went with 1 being the highest. Not too hard to click "Give Up" and start over, but could be solved with a quick hint in the instructions.
9/10 on the first try. Took 19 more tries to get all of them though. Much easier than the alphabetical countries one in my opinion, but also more frustrating.
If anyone's curious, I wrote some code to simulate this game 100,000 times using two different strategies. Win rate means the percentage of games where it scored 10/10.
Placing the numbers based on the digit in the tens place(ish) (1-10 go in rank 1, 11-20 go in rank 2, etc., or closest available if it's taken) had a win rate of 18.04% and an average score of 5.828.
Placing the numbers by calculating the probability of the current number being in each rank and choosing the most likely rank had a win rate of 21.32% and an average score of 6.032.
I like how curious everyone becomes from this quiz. I do think you missed a factor of 10 somewhere though, someone else also ran the probability strategy on a million games and found a 2.18% success rate, which also seems to correspond better with the about 1% who actually get it first try
Finally got it on the 50th try. Starting out the strategy was use logic. But in the end I had to follow Captain Kirk's advice to Spock, "Spock, in this case, do yourself a favor: Put aside logic. Do what feels right."
finally did it after like 300 tries. u really do have to forget logic and do what u feel like lmao. after thinking like that, i got it on like my fourth try just now. great game
On Firefox on a Mac everything works fine for me. Do you happen to have some kind of adblocker enabled that might accidentally block the pins from rendering?
On Firefox on a Mac everything works fine for me. Do you happen to have some kind of adblocker enabled that might accidentally block the pins from rendering?
Finally got it on my 217th try. And no, I am not some intellectual slouch, just cursed with bad luck. 20 instances of me placing 99 on the 10th row, only to get 100 later on. Also, plenty of instances where all 10 numbers fall within a band of only 30. I honestly don't know if this quiz tests anything beyond my ability to NOT punch my screen!
If it was pure luck the chances of getting 10/10 would be 1 in 3.6 million. With perfect tactics you can get that down to about 1 in 46. So luck is definitely a big factor for a perfect score, but so are tactics.
And besides, the translated versions of this quiz have so far broken the record for most takes in a day on the German, Spanish, and French sections, the latter of which had stood for 12 years(!). So regardless of opinion, this quiz is an enormous hit
OK - I'm a bit baffled. What is the point of the instruction that you can safely put the pin down outside of the answer box? It doesn't seem to accomplish anything except waste time. Would be different if the next random number then appeared, but then the puzzle would be easy. What have I missed? Thanks.
That's mostly there for mobile users where not the entire SVG might be visible at once on every screen. So they may need to drop the pin, move the SVG, and drop it into one of the answer boxes again.
On a computer you'll indeed probably rarely do that
Sorry pal, but this is the first quiz I will ever disapprove and dislike only on the basis that it is pure, random chance. Not even a quiz, no, just pure random chance. It is so infuriating since I've already past more than two dozen attempts and still no luck. NOT a great quiz, merely as it is not a quiz.
Much apologies, but this is my opinion as I state it. No hatred insinuated, just my feelings on how random chance really skew this as a NOT-quiz.
I know you know about the issues but I just wanted to add that the quiz doesn't work for me only on the Opera browser, I've tried opening it in Edge and it works fine
I wonder how much the strategy changes if you're trying for a perfect score vs trying to avoid a bad score.
It seems to avoid a bad score you'd be better off leaving a space between every number to guarantee yourself at least a 50%, whereas trying for a perfect score there's got to be a mathematical ideal placement for every number in every situation, right?
So after some trial and error and quick research, you actually can't guarantee you get above 50% no matter what strategy you employ, but it is REALLY difficult to not get there if you actually try
This thing is actually sentient. It is literally failing me out of spite. It gives me a 99, 94, 92, 85, a 47, 53, 12, 2, 36, and then throws a 100 in there just to keep me from getting it.
I've done some programming to determine the strategy that maximises the chance of getting 10/10. The best strategy has a 2.38% success rate, and the best starting move is as follows:
If you are one of the people experiencing this bug, please consider joining the JetPunk Discord and contact me there, so that I can hopefully figure out with one of you what is going wrong and fix it for all of you.
Placing the numbers based on the digit in the tens place(ish) (1-10 go in rank 1, 11-20 go in rank 2, etc., or closest available if it's taken) had a win rate of 18.04% and an average score of 5.828.
Placing the numbers by calculating the probability of the current number being in each rank and choosing the most likely rank had a win rate of 21.32% and an average score of 6.032.
Here's the code (it's quite messy): https://github.com/ebreen1/blind_ranking/
The code is correct but the conclusion isn't. The win rates are reported as 0.01814 and 0.0229 (slightly different because of a different RNG seed).
So using your numbers:
Placing the digits based on the first number + 1 has a 1.804% win rate
Placing the digits in the probabilistically most likely rank has a 2.132% win rate
5,8,4,4,8,6,4,7,4,7,4,8,6,5,10
And besides, the translated versions of this quiz have so far broken the record for most takes in a day on the German, Spanish, and French sections, the latter of which had stood for 12 years(!). So regardless of opinion, this quiz is an enormous hit
On a computer you'll indeed probably rarely do that
Much apologies, but this is my opinion as I state it. No hatred insinuated, just my feelings on how random chance really skew this as a NOT-quiz.
It seems to avoid a bad score you'd be better off leaving a space between every number to guarantee yourself at least a 50%, whereas trying for a perfect score there's got to be a mathematical ideal placement for every number in every situation, right?
Edit: got a 9/10 and I was so sad
1-6: rank 1
7-17: rank 2
18-28: rank 3
29-39: rank 4
40-50: rank 5
51-61: rank 6
62-72: rank 7
73-83: rank 8
84-94: rank 9
95-100: rank 10