[HN Gopher] Travle: A daily game - get between countries in as f...
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       Travle: A daily game - get between countries in as few guesses as
       possible
        
       Author : my12parsecs
       Score  : 109 points
       Date   : 2023-11-29 07:51 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (imois.in)
 (TXT) w3m dump (imois.in)
        
       | kuschkufan wrote:
       | Very easy to cheat in this game, unfortunately - just look at a
       | map elsewhere. The game itself is great though, very well done
       | and lots of detail.
       | 
       | Could only be better if it would install a ServiceWorker to
       | remind me by push notification every day for the new task.
        
         | kbrackbill wrote:
         | It's really easy to cheat in pretty much all of the wordle-
         | alikes, but where's the fun in that?
        
         | petercooper wrote:
         | And you can cheat at Wordle pretty easily with grep -iE '^$'
         | /usr/share/dict/words... (or, back in the day, just look at the
         | source) but that's not really the point if you want to just
         | enjoy the game.
        
         | dmd wrote:
         | Wait until you hear how quickly I can complete crossword
         | puzzles by looking at the answer page.
        
       | amarant wrote:
       | This game is great! Really fun and surprisingly challenging,
       | today's challenge was in one of the parts of the world I'm most
       | unsure about geographically!
       | 
       | Unlike the other wordle-like games, I feel like I'm actually
       | learning something with this one!
       | 
       | Great work!
        
       | duiker101 wrote:
       | Congrats on the game! Looks great!
       | 
       | Mildly off-topic: how do you get Google ads on a website like
       | this? Google loves to reject my websites due to a lack of content
       | even if the content is a game itself or a Web app rather than
       | some content-heavy website
        
       | charles_f wrote:
       | Fun game. I'd love to be able to play more than one round a day.
        
         | strstr wrote:
         | Game trusts the local clock. You can change the datetime. I did
         | this to try older puzzles.
        
         | lifebeyondfife wrote:
         | You can use the waybackmachine. This works for Worldle as well.
         | 
         | http://web.archive.org/web/20231127182010/https://imois.in/g...
        
         | thekevinscott wrote:
         | Agreed. I downloaded a wordle clone to get around this
         | restriction too
        
       | standardUser wrote:
       | Bookmarked. I was so proud to get it in the minimum number of
       | guesses, but turns out 56% of players did that!
        
       | dunefox wrote:
       | The German translation for share is not Aktie (like Stock
       | Exchange) but teilen (like send to someone).
        
       | rgmerk wrote:
       | Hmmm. Neat, but I wonder whether it's going to get pretty
       | repetitive once you know a few key bottlenecks (eg the countries
       | of Central America).
        
         | geephroh wrote:
         | But that just means that it's done its job in teaching you
         | geography!
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Neat game, but I wish so many of them popping up these days
       | wouldn't just try to blindly copy the "one game a day" formula.
       | _Especially_ ones that can be algorithmically generated to have
       | basically infinite puzzles. Just because Wordle went viral in
       | that way doesn 't mean yours will as well. I'd love to keep
       | playing this one, but the chances of me remembering to come back
       | day after day are next to zero.
        
         | georgebcrawford wrote:
         | Agreed, I enjoy this one more than any other but only
         | remembered it because I saw it here after seeing on Tildes a
         | few days ago.
        
       | anotheraccount9 wrote:
       | Super game, but after it's done, how do you restart the game
       | (world level)?
        
         | pedrogpimenta wrote:
         | you don't. you get a new one every day
        
       | hyperific wrote:
       | Love this! Reminds me a lot of the wikipedia speed run game which
       | is another fav
       | 
       | https://wikispeedrun.org/
        
       | holoduke wrote:
       | I once sat in an airplane without anything to read or listen to
       | for 10 hours. I decided to learn all countries in the world from
       | the promo magazine you always have in the airplane. Never really
       | useful till this game :)
        
       | davidw wrote:
       | Oddly it decided to show me the game in Italian. I have my
       | browser set up to prefer either English or Italian, but English
       | would have been fine, really, and its Italian translation is not
       | that great.
       | 
       | Still, neat game though.
        
       | ptrrrrrrppr wrote:
       | I dont see any way to share feedback via website, but the Polish
       | translation has so many errors it is hard to even guess what the
       | rules are
        
       | softg wrote:
       | I enjoyed this game, it made me feel better about myself until I
       | tried France and was unable to think of a single department
       | between the Pyrenees and Marseille. Are you planning to add other
       | countries? A pan european version with german states, french and
       | spanish regions etc. could be interesting.
        
       | neoromantique wrote:
       | I enjoyed it and then I realised that you need to wait till next
       | day to play again. I'll have forgotten it ever existed in an
       | hour, weird marketing gimmick I'd say.
        
       | foooobaba wrote:
       | This is cool. I also like the site in general, has a nice feel to
       | it.
        
       | FredPret wrote:
       | Really love this!
        
       | Probiotic6081 wrote:
       | Love it! Can't wait for tomorrow (7 minutes from now.) The way I
       | want to go "from A to B" made me think you had to guess the
       | countries in order, which is not the case apparently.
        
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