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- rubyist5eva 5y agoSweden
- nshan651 5y agoIf you click on one of the export categories, it shows you related articles for the country. Might want to consider changing that so that it doesn’t give away the answer, otherwise awesome game!
- throwesja234123 5y agoIt 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 5y agoSame here. The "more information" gave the country name away.
- oktwtf 5y agoOkay, 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 5y agoAll 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.
- ducktective 5y agoNice!
- dna_polymerase 5y agoRemove the "trade" theme. Put a random picture from Google Street View at the top and give geoguessr a run for their money.
- druadh 5y agoSeems 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 5y agoSame, 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.
- amilios 5y agoIts UI is similar to Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ 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 5y agoI 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.
- petepete 5y agoThat 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.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI actually missed the significance of the arrow entirely. It's obvious but I still focussed mostly on the distance.
- sarsway 5y agoI 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!
- sdze 5y agoGermany immediately was not an option... Volkswagen alone has like 100 Bln revenue per year.
- yuy910616 5y agoAh! I was wondering what car brand, I'm guessing it's Volvo?
- joshstrange 5y agoI 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 https://stackoverflow.com/a/51686510/1072106 [1] https://1password.community/discussion/117501/as-a-web-developer-how-can-i-disable-1password-filling-for-a-specific-field https://1password.community/discussion/117501/as-a-web-devel...
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI've noticed this a whole lot recently -- a whole bunch of sites inappropriately autocompleting irrelevant things.
- atombum 5y agoI 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/Securing_your_site/Turning_off_form_autocompletion#preventing_autofilling_with_autocompletenew-password https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Securi...
- joshstrange 5y agoYeah, 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.
- belkarx 5y agoAdd a link to a map maybe? instead of "more information"
- pianoben 5y agoGot it in one :) Cars + Lumber + Oil narrowed it down pretty well.
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoI got this in three, all quite close countries -- though I should have got it in one from the kaolin-coated paper bit.
- perlgeek 5y agowouldn't that also fit Brazil, for example?
- hn_user82179 5y agoI 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 5y agoFlubbed the first guess, took a better look and got it on the second one.
- bee_rider 5y agoI 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?
- user- 5y ago#Tradle #4 6/6 ⬛⬛ ⬛⬛ ⬛ ⬛ https://oec.world/en/tradle https://oec.world/en/tradle Sharing output is kinda misleading, I thought it would share the %s and direction.
- Laforet 5y agoInteresting, who knows the top export of Macedonia are centrifuges?
- junon 5y agoOn mobile I tapped on the boxes to see what they were. The pop ups have the answer in them. Not very helpful :/
- paxys 5y agoSame on the web
- rsstack 5y agoThe 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 5y agoWorldle uses the same calculations, center to center, else Russia would be just a few miles from the U.S. e.g.
- rsstack 5y agoRussia is 4 km from the US :) "Oklahoma to Krasnoyarsky Krai" makes sense mathematically but is a weird claim to make.
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- SamBam 5y agoTrue, although "France / 0km South / Brazil" would also be strange, going by country boarders.
- weatherlight 5y agoFrance's longest border is with Brazil :)
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- paxys 5y agoDoes "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 5y agoI 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/ 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 5y agoThe former.
- qurm 5y agoVery informative game, and Friday’s is more challenging. #Tradle #5 6/6 ⬜⬜ https://oec.world/en/tradle https://oec.world/en/tradle
- OGWhales 5y ago> Friday’s is more challenging Gave that one a go, here is the percentage & direction for my guesses: https://i.imgur.com/hGyNemi.png https://i.imgur.com/hGyNemi.png
- throwaway6532 5y agoThis has a similar interface to Worldle (https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ 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 5y agoI was also excited to add this, but unlike Worldle it doesn't support imperial units and is pretty unusable on mobile.
- Jedd 5y ago> 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.
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- radicalriddler 5y agoI play Worldle every time I come across a Wordle clone, it's just so fun to guess countries, I guess riding off the same thing that Geoguessr found.
- Uptrenda 5y agoHow many boring wordle clones are you sheep going to upvote? Wordle sucks
- suc_syn 5y agotest
- suc_syn 5y agothis is great
- pearjuice 5y agoWhen will we get a Wordle version where we guess the Wordle clone?
- ekabod 5y agoFull of bugs. HN users are not testers.
- weakwire 5y agoNice. 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/swe/all/show/2019/?controls=false&title=false https://oec.world/en/visualize/embed/tree_map/hs92/export/sw..."
- Melatonic 5y agoedit: 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.
- XCSme 5y agoI 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 5y agoI won at 2nd try. First Italy, then Sweden.
- shawndrost 5y agoI feel the need to brag that I guessed Sweden on the first try. I think that means the product is working!
- muhammadusman 5y agohow does it work?
- echelon 5y agoCareful reading the comments here. Several posts contain today's answer.
- bru 5y agoWeb 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).
- ale42 5y agoSimilar situation for me. I have an English (UK) Firefox, however the system locale is set to Swiss French... and most countries don't work.
- spamtarget 5y agoOne question per day? Really stupid...
- renewiltord 5y agoText field does not clear when I submit. Chrome on Mac OS. But game is fun!
- spullara 5y ago#Tradle #4 1/6 https://oec.world/en/tradle https://oec.world/en/tradle
- cyounkins 5y agoI can't seem to scroll the country list! Firefox 98 on macOS 12.2.
- JonathanBuchh 5y agoThis is like playing https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ without seeing the country shape (since I do not know much about world trade). I love it – especially because it teaches me something new!
- cardiffspaceman 5y agoSometimes I have trouble visualizing what country could be in that direction from the place I guessed, so having the exports is pretty helpful. Not every country would be capable of exporting Catalytic converters and centrifuges.
- amznbyebyebye 5y agoThis wordle trend has gone-too-fardle
- afterburner 5y agoOK I really like this one, I'm learning about economies...
- infologics 5y ago[dead]
- rmrfchik 5y agoAstrologers proclaims end of age of "LY" and proclaims age of "LE".