Wikipedia Bingo

The excitement of Wikipedia and the trepidations of Bingo combined into one game! \s

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Inspiration

A bolt from the blue!

What it does

Goal

Find all the words in a column or a row to get Bingo! and win the game!

Rules

  1. Type the name of a Wikipedia article which you think will contain some of the words on your Bingo grid.
  2. If it contains a word that is in the grid, good job! But be careful: Every occurance of the word in the article will be counted.
  3. If a word is found too many times during the game, the counter will overflow and the word will be replaced! Potentially ruining a nearly finished column or row.

How many wikipedia articles will you need to visit to get Bingo!?

Note: There are no losers... but there are winners. Will you be at the top of the leaderboard?

How we built it

Using a combination of pygame, web scraping and natural language work.

Challenges we ran into

  • Pygame was a challenge at first!
  • It was difficult to find a good word list for the Bingo grid.
  • Wikipedia's markup getting in the way.
  • Numpy datatypes.....

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Getting pygame to work.
  • Adding lots of extra features (high scores, difficulty options etc).

What we learned

  • The power of friendship
  • Also dominoes induces frenzy near midnight

What's next for Wikipedia Bingo

We have loads of features we'd love to add:

  • Making the GUI look prettier.
  • Putting the game online!

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