Dave540

Today at the "How Lucky Are You? Quiz-style" game I improved my score from 43% to 71%. Looks like so!

-Dave540

Hi Dave540:

Thanks for your comment on my 'State Anagrams III: Difficult' game. You said:

"This could be difficult at first. Anagrams may be confusing for little kids."

That's pretty much undeniable. In fact, anagrams may be confusing for some adults. And many other games here are too difficult for young children: many anatomy games, difficult games in history and geography, etc.

That's one of the nice things about this site, though: there are all sorts of games here: different subjects, different levels of difficulty.

Some people here relish very difficult games. (BoboLo is noted for that). Others (and not just children) gravitate towards very easy ones. And games of intermediate difficulty are favored by others.

As a game maker, I've pretty much spanned the difficulty spectrum. I don't specifically make games for young children, but some are certainly very simple. At the other end, some have been very difficult.

I think everyone deserves to have games here that appeal to them. And as far as I can tell, this site has done a good job of providing that, thanks to David's efforts at keeping it open to all.

Thanks again.

Tickman

The original "How Lucky Are You?" game? The sentence said, "Pick one" and then I clicked on those dwarfs. I'm always wrong.

Dave540

A couple of other things:

Actually, the original "How Lucky Are You?" game also indicates the odds, but most such games do not. Some are even disguised are ordinary games, which seems unfair to me.

Also, I have now added an additional line to the game description warning people not to play if they are greatly concerned with how a less than 100% score will affect their position on the leaderboard. I can't do more than that.

Regards,

Tickman

RE: your comment on my "How Lucky Are You? Quiz-style" game.

This is the point of that game: it's all about luck: you can't tell the right answer from the wrong.

The title is a reference to the original "How Lucky Are You?" game, which is a picture game with the 7 Dwarfs.

The description on my game indicates that it is very unlikely for someone to get it all correct:

1 chance in 4800 times. (A bit better than the game with the dwarfs which has 1 in 5400 odds.

To date, only 1 person has made 100% on my game, out of more than 7700 tries.

In the other game, There are 3 100% scores out of >13,200 plays. (That kind of game is a bit different: you can abort a try when you see that it is wrong. Aborted plays don't count, so that fudges the odds a bit.)

There are other similar games about. I think mine is the only one that warns agains the unlikelyhood of achieving 100%

Regards,

Tickman