Xkcd wikipedia game

More information about the puzzles and how to solve them may be found in the original posts, which are linked to in the left column. This became part one of a multi-part puzzle because I could not find a way to meet my three design goals simultaneously: 1 use letters to spell things; 2 lay them out symmetrically; 3 create a sudoku that required more than basic solving techniques.

I had found many decent puzzles based on this starting grid, but none were symmetrical, and many symmetrical ones, but none of them were very hard. I decided to select my favorite one, post the part of it that met the first two goals, and use another puzzle to show how to fill in the remaining asymmetrical clues. All we have here is a cryptogram. It is a verse I wrote using only the nine available letters from the sudoku grid, as inspired by mathrec's puzzles.

I played with the layout in a silly way, which I knew would hamper solving but which I hoped would enhance enjoyment afterward. I figured the added difficulty would be balanced out once it was figured out there were only nine letters to choose from for the solution map.

Figuring that out is essential to finding the words and the spaces between. These are coordinates and letters for putting the rest of the clues into the grid and making the sudoku solvable. This became a puzzle when I decided to post no instructions. I had intended to define the coordinate system, which would have made this part straightforward, but this way involved some figuring.

In each matched pair, the first number indicates a nine-cell area in the grid, and the areas are numbered like this:. And that these routes may become invalid as articles are edited. They all have been updated on March 21, All links then could be found directly on the page. This was not the case in the original version of the paths, where some links were in hidden parts of the page. I was unable to find the fatal hilarity link from the Batman page.

I call shenanigans. David y 22 talk , 1 November UTC. This always happens to me on Wikipedia! Glad to know I'm not alone : If I had a dollar for every wiki article I read that had nothing to do with the initial reason I opened Wikipedia, I'm guessing I could buy myself that motorcycle I've always wanted.

Also, it's been a long time since I last read any Asimov, but didn't he describe, in the Foundation series if I remember correctly, something very similar to Wikipedia? I wonder if that was any inspiration to the creators of Wikipedia. Militon talk , 19 February UTC. This happens to me on explainxkcd. Perhaps we should coordinate efforts to make one? I really want to see some xkcd fan group release this as a game.

I came here specifically to see if this game existed and I'm irritated it doesn't yet. People with better coding and geological skills than me, you have an interested party. I'm fully on board. If and when this thing hypothetically gets popular, I'll be like, "Hey, I was there!

I have a feeling that making this game would be an awful like No Man's Sky, all the physics would be extremely difficult to manage and take years to iron out fully. I would love to help. But just with planetary modification abilities. I'm surprised no one's brought up SimEarth, which you start out by terraforming a barren planet, making sure life forms, evolves to sentience, and watch it leave for the stars It's going to happen!

Working title is "Tectonica" yeah - in the cartoon it's "Tectonics! Nothing to see YET but we have tectonica. A currently small splinter group has formed that would rather use Unity to create the game. In contrast, Unity is well-documented and there are many tutorials available online already for those who wish to contribute. This is for discussion of other real time games.

Desert Bus -- It's like playing Desert Bus for the rest of your life Where it felt like you were waiting forever for your torpedo to hit? I liked that they told you that, in the real world, it's much slower than it is in the game. Not really sure where to put this, so posting it here: Too bad the comic wasn't a bit longer.

Could have had Ponytail respond to "It's real time" with "Of course not. It's a million times faster. Are you sure the second row of achievements is about atolls? It looked more like evolution of life to me single celled, multicellular, something, fish. I was immediately reminded of Wobbler's or Pratchett's, depending on which side of the 4th wall you look from "Journey to Alpha Centauri" - and it turns out it was actually made into a "real" game too.

I think I somewhere read something about that some time ago. Dunno if true, wikipedia doesn't say anything about that. Elektrizikekswerk talk , 22 October UTC. I think it's important to note that the 10k final achievement requires the player to "Out do" Everest 8,m which might not be possible under Earths gravity. Cletus has a farm that can grow various crops which are generally silly and many related to the show, but one is titled "Corn. Actual corn", which takes 90 days to complete most of the longest things are 24 hours, with only a handful of items being longer , the gag being that in real life corn apparently takes 90 days to grow.

If we can get a full table, we should add it to the article. Here's a closeup of the games with added math: edit: This super-wide embedded image completely messes with both the Talk page and the Talk-embedding normal page, at least for me, so I'm editing it out for sanity's sake - the IP editor below Frankie talk , 13 July UTC. The one with a big cursive O is the game Obsession.

The one in front of White Hat is none other than Mall Madness. Mall Madness FTW. I'm pretty sure the main text is riffing on RISK: Legacy, which develops a world over 15 games in which stickers are placed and cards are ripped up and unlocked for play.

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb. Jump to: navigation , search. Now roll 2d6 to determine how many ounces of soda to spill into the box. Explanation [ edit ] This comic continues the joke from comic Board Game Party Schedule , released the previous week, about the difficulty some gaming groups have actually playing any game at all once they get together.