The Wikiguessr Game

The Wikiguessr is like a Wordle for Wikipedia articles. Instead of words you find Wikipedia article names and instead of letter hints you are given sentence hints from the article.

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The project is a small interactive and funny meme-incorporating game like wordle. It is a quick round game where you are given sentences from a Wikipedia article and you need to guess the article name as quickly as possible. If you can’t find the word with the first hint, you need to ask for another sentence and in total you have 5 sentences until it is game over.

The team was inspired by our common love for the two games that Wikiguessr is comprised of, Geoguessr and Wordle. Geoguessr is an online website game where the players can have a look around a google view panorama and then have a limited amount of time to place a pin on the google map, believing where the location is. The player with the most accurate location (closest to the actual location) wins. Wordle is a game where the player needs to guess a 5-letter word, where the game tells the player which letters in their 5 attempt are correctly placed, which are wrong and which are part of the word but wrongly placed.

After meeting in the hackathon for the first day and realizing that we are all people with limited coding knowledge (two first-year com-sci students, one maths and one economics student), we started talking about the possible projects that we could do. After some team-building exercises and discussion, we discovered our love for the two games and decided to create a third loved one, Wikiguessr.

The real challenge was the algorithm creation, the random wiki article and then the random draw of sentences. The system had bugs drawing whole sentences and we also had to pay attention to hiding the actual article word, that was usually appearing in paragraph sentences and took the most time to develop.

The idea behind Wikiguessr is not to serve as a game but also as an educational tool for students to have fun and learn a lot of stuff. The category variety can be expanded to scientific and environmental knowledge and allow the tool to be used usefully in schools and educational institutions. The dream is for the Wikiguessr to become a loved game and make learning more interactive

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