Inspiration
My daughter enjoys playing games on Alexa like "Kids Trivia" and "World War II Trivia".
I'm planning to have her write the SCAT to see if she'll qualify for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth program. One half of the test uses analogies. I figure gamifying the skill will give her practice. Making it widely available could help others.
What it does
This skill asks 5 analogy questions of the form:
- A is to B as C is to ...?
The user listens to a list of four words and speaks the number that corresponds to the word that satisfies the analogy.
My kid seems happy enough with the other trivia games to answer in this format, so that's what I went with.
How I built it
I hacked on the Python "Color Picker" example code.
Challenges I ran into
In testing, some of the words were read too quickly and I had to backtrack to hack in SSML support.
I'd called this skill "Analogies" initially. Alas, I was reminded during Certification that it should have a two-word name. The new name is, "Analogy Game".
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Written over a weekend. (I only found out about this contest 5 days before the deadline!)
What I learned
Real users will find interesting problems!
What's next for Analogy Game
- Nuanced analogies for advanced kids.
- Answer directly with the word rather than a number.
- Verbose mode that would read the "Bridge" sentence.
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