Stressfull a timer with unlimited questions haha. Was good fun :) (the easy was quite doable, toughest one I got was double flag colours, blue and white..)
Only point of critique: I continuously keep misclicking (tapping), because as soon as you click an answer, the others huddle to the middle, and Im clicking where the word was a microsecond before. So the faster I want to go, the slower I am, cant click two fast after eachother (cause you are clicking in air or you have caught an answer you didnt want).
Still fun though, and if it cant get altered, I'll just have to retrain my brain ;) and wait for the words to have "reshuffled".
Plus, I keep wanting to drag and drop, but that is my own issue haha. Aswell as selecting two, putting them in the right spot, and waiting for the next question, because I think the others by default belong to the other group (hope this makes sense in english).
I think I need to do this quiz a few more times to get my habits out ;) (did it 3 times and every time the same things happen haha, dragging, misclicking, waiting)
Thanks for the comments! I'll take a look into seeing if I can prevent the reshuffling each time (this is done with CSS, so might be tricky to implement). The drag-drop only works on Desktop due to the funky way JavaScript wants to do drag-and-drop on mobile. Due to this mobile/tablet only work via tapping-to-select.
Yea I suspected it would be difficult to not have the words "recentering". And ow do you cán drag and drop on computer?? I wanted to try this on comp before, but now even more haha, that would make an even huger difference.
(Jetpunk should have two scoring systems, one for pc/laptop users and one for phone/tablet users ;) just kidding it is all about the fun, eventhough there is a massive difference (I noticed when I see old comments of myself saying there is plenty of time, and when redoing them on tablet cant get halfway through :) I think for 2 mins on pc I take 3 mins on tablet (this one is extremely sensitive to typos )
This is a really great game. I so appreciate that JetPunk is finding new styles of games while retaining its clean and accessible interface. It's one of the reasons I love this site and continue to white-list it.
Woohoo I got 11 on hard, on tablet :D never expected to make the leaderboard (especially with me playing clumsily, and know nothing about elevation and only about 8 flags.. Luckily I do know a bit about size and location :) ).
I better enjoy it while it lasts haha (wish I had a functioning computer though.. now I wanna improve, I have never cared about time other quizzes, but here it matters.)
Actually I kinda forgot at the moment I'm Wrinting this comment ;D But I think that there's some countries that could fit in both categories. An example could be Comoros, I put it in countries with less than 5 million people, (With two others who also had less) but it didn't accept that. So I put it in the other, first then it got accepted. It was on easy btw
Yes some items fit in both categories, as mentioned in the description. These are accepted for both, but you have to have an even split! So if you have an even split and it doesn't work, then you might have to move one of the items that fit both as you'll have another which is wrong.
It can be a little complicated at first, but it adds a little more challenge!
I think that only the user’s best score should be on the leaderboard, because right now on Countries Easy, 4 out of the top 5 rankings on the leaderboard today are from the same person...
I think this discourages replays, but I'll think about it. After all, the scoreboard resets daily anyway. Also we're in very early days, so it's possible these scores can be beaten in the future.
I've mentioned this before and the instructions change accordingly, on mobile dragging doesn't work so you need to tap on an answer to select, then tap where you want it to go.
I've mentioned this before and the instructions change accordingly, on mobile dragging doesn't work so you need to tap on an answer to select, then tap where you want it to go.
35 really? that is a bit more than 3 seconds per answer, so less than a second per drag. Ok I wanted to say that seems impossible, but I guess with a mouse perhaps, with touchpad, it doesnt seem very feasible. (or maybe it is jsut this one, it is tiny and wait for it... round... so constantly have to readjust, because I cant go up anymore. And the buttons you need to press as hard as an old typewriter haha. Emergency laptop from 2007/2008).
This is not available to users, unfortunately. It's only possible to implement directly in the code itself, which is impossible for anybody not working for JetPunk.
Collecting the data for it can be quite time confusing, as well as finding interesting yet plausible topics. I will probably end up making some more topics at some point, but right now I'm focused on major site updates instead :)
Time confusing hehe, I had a giggle at that one ^^ (And instantly my nerdy/geeky brain takes me to timeparadoxes, movies about time, and all sort of strange and philosophical things about time)
But as a concept it actually seems to exist, a lot of things are time confusing, when on certain sites for instance, suddenly you seem to have fast forwarded in time, and when you are somewhere boring, time seems to have frozen..
I think time itself gets confused a lot and forgot how fast or slow it was supposed to flow. (Ow my! Now I have gotten poetic aswell!)
Are people using hotkeys for this quiz, or am I just slow with my mouse? Some quizzes I'm on a roll and get them all quickly on the first try, and I'm still only getting low 20s.
Optimal strategy seems to be keeping the mouse moving at all times. I focus on a very easy category (i.e countries from a continent) and sort countries one by one which is usually enough and requires minimal thinking. I find it quicker to switch 1 country if I get a 3-1/4-2 split than to stop and think for all.
Not sure if mentioned: One of the clues is "Countries with 30 million people" which is misleading. It actually should state "Countries with greater than 30 million people"
This is intentionally done, the clues have to be short enough to fit in nicely. I don't think it's misleading because it's unreasonable to expect a country to have exactly 30 million.
I've tried before and it's unfixable, there's no way to know whether a user has a touchscreen computer or not. The only way around is to view the site in mobile mode (click button at bottom of page) as then you can tap to select, and tap to drop instead of dragging
If you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything
- Probably some smart guy a long time ago
Also, you are eleven. Stewart is older, much more experienced, and definitely nicer. Please try not to be so rude next time to people you don't even know on the Internet.
It's pretty annoying when you're doing well on Medium or Hard, and then suddenly there's one question that you can't seem to figure out, and you have to try every possible combination, until the timer finally runs out. Lovely minigame, though, with a great UI. 5/5
Just curious, are you planning on making any new minigames in the near future?
Oh okay, no pressure; it's just how all the current ones are so great, it's a shame that there are only four :)
But I'm sure you have a life outside of JetPunk, so I'll be patient. They also must take a long time to make... given that I only have minimal experience with coding (only a few month's worth of Khan Academy Javascript), I can't imagine how much time would go into even one "mini"game!
It may have been accepted in both categories. For Easy mode there is often overlap between the two categories, meaning a country may belong to both categories shown. As long as you get to a state where the answers are divided into two groups, and each group successfully matches its category, then that's all that matters.
I can't seem to get this game to work for me. I try to drag and drop the answers and they do get darker, but they don't really move. Just a "ghost" version of them moves together with the mouse cursor for as long as I hold it down.
I remember how the game functioned years ago and something is definitely not right now.
I tried it on Firefox Version 129.0 (my standard browser) and on Chrome Version 127.0.6533.100 (my rainy day browser without any addons, not even an adblock).
Edit: This should be fixed now, thanks!
Stressfull a timer with unlimited questions haha. Was good fun :) (the easy was quite doable, toughest one I got was double flag colours, blue and white..)
Still fun though, and if it cant get altered, I'll just have to retrain my brain ;) and wait for the words to have "reshuffled".
I think I need to do this quiz a few more times to get my habits out ;) (did it 3 times and every time the same things happen haha, dragging, misclicking, waiting)
(Jetpunk should have two scoring systems, one for pc/laptop users and one for phone/tablet users ;) just kidding it is all about the fun, eventhough there is a massive difference (I noticed when I see old comments of myself saying there is plenty of time, and when redoing them on tablet cant get halfway through :) I think for 2 mins on pc I take 3 mins on tablet (this one is extremely sensitive to typos )
I better enjoy it while it lasts haha (wish I had a functioning computer though.. now I wanna improve, I have never cared about time other quizzes, but here it matters.)
It can be a little complicated at first, but it adds a little more challenge!
Honestly, I tried lots of attempts because I was so close to beating the 1st place on the leaderboard so it ends up spamming the daily leaderboard.
And I think more player will do the very same in the future, so I think the feature is good for the leaderboard itself.
I find anything above 20 rather impressive :)
But as a concept it actually seems to exist, a lot of things are time confusing, when on certain sites for instance, suddenly you seem to have fast forwarded in time, and when you are somewhere boring, time seems to have frozen..
I think time itself gets confused a lot and forgot how fast or slow it was supposed to flow. (Ow my! Now I have gotten poetic aswell!)
Also btw, the top user This Week on US States Hard has an inappropriate name.
I had to use the mouse. Could you fix that Stewart?
- Probably some smart guy a long time ago
Also, you are eleven. Stewart is older, much more experienced, and definitely nicer. Please try not to be so rude next time to people you don't even know on the Internet.
It's pretty annoying when you're doing well on Medium or Hard, and then suddenly there's one question that you can't seem to figure out, and you have to try every possible combination, until the timer finally runs out. Lovely minigame, though, with a great UI. 5/5
Just curious, are you planning on making any new minigames in the near future?
And maybe! Most minigames were expected, and it just depends on if we have the time to work on them :)
But I'm sure you have a life outside of JetPunk, so I'll be patient. They also must take a long time to make... given that I only have minimal experience with coding (only a few month's worth of Khan Academy Javascript), I can't imagine how much time would go into even one "mini"game!
And yeah, I have a full time job outside JetPunk, so only get to work on it in my "spare" time, which is often lacking nowadays.
I would say Even Split took about a week to make, Geo Snap maybe 2 weeks. Not sure on the other two as Quizmaster made them!
But very nice Minigame!
I remember how the game functioned years ago and something is definitely not right now.
I tried it on Firefox Version 129.0 (my standard browser) and on Chrome Version 127.0.6533.100 (my rainy day browser without any addons, not even an adblock).