Elemental Etyomology--Challenging (Periodic Table)

Elemental Etyomology--Challenging (Periodic Table)

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What do the names of the elements mean? Brackets add information, parens give the languages of origin. (I've interpreted names to better fit text blocks.)

Image by Armtuk at Wikimedia/Wikipedia

Lilili requested this game: here it is.

Category: Science Games

Created by tickman, 6 Aug, 2009

Tags: lingquistics., science

Rating: 5, from 3 votes
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tickman  3 months ago

@ Wentu:

Re: your first comment, I thought the 111 dots was quite enough. I was hoping to avoid the freezing problem seen in this game:

http://www.purposegames.com/game/capitals-of-the-world-quiz

But by your later comments, I see that I failed.

The "Capitals of the World" game has 190+ dots, I thought mine had few enough it might not do the same.

I don't think I'll add more to this game, and I don't think I'll do another with 100+ dots, unless the problem is fixed.

Wentu  3 months ago

it is the same as for world capitals... it stops at the penultimate dot so many times that it sucks... it is really a pity because as a game itself it allowed me to remember elements much better than the simple name

Wentu  3 months ago

nNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the game got stuck when i was 2 from the end !!!! oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!

Wentu  3 months ago

well, why not to put also "one-one-two" and the rest for ununbium and so on, just for the sake of completeness.. it is already hard so it won't make a big difference...

tickman  3 months ago

Please note that some of these derivations are too complex to handle well in a small text block. I did my best.

Also note that some elements share etymologies (Manganese and Magnesium, for example.) The ultimate in that is this answer:

Ytterby [village] (Swed.)

Ytterby has 4 elements named for it.

Importantly: if you find misspellings or other errors in this game, PLEASE let me know so I can fix them. This size game is difficult to troubleshoot.

And feel free to play without logging in. This will be a hard game. No sense messing up your score (if that matters to you).

tickman  3 months ago

tickman  3 months ago


tickman  3 months ago

More about these etymologies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_element_name_etymologies

More about the periodic table:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

Find this version of the periodic table here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_Table_Armtuk3.svg

The file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License.

Details:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Highscores — Elemental Etyomology--Challenging (Periodic Table)Place 1 - 6
 Player NameScoreTimeDate of Play
1Wentu100%3:07.9 min.8 Aug, 2009
2Lilili100%4:27.6 min.7 Aug, 2009
3slaaty100%10:57.9 min.8 Sep, 2009
4buzzgunner45%34:40.4 min.8 Aug, 2009
5torgew40%20:07.2 min.6 Aug, 2009
6toni29%19:17.2 min.6 Aug, 2009
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Set by Wentu, 3 months ago

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