Topic: e621 game idea that I might eventually do someday, or not

Premise: Daily games like wordle, Sqareword, waffle, etc. are a fun challenge. What if we had a similar e621-themed puzzle?

Let's think of some requirements. I think the best metric to use it is tags. We can even end up teaching the user niche tags if we do this right. However, this does restrict what we can do a bit. We can't have a set number of characters, for instance. Also, we need to be careful about tag selection. Very common tags won't do us much good, so we should aim for general tags with over a threshold of uses, but probably less than some upper limit (150-1500?). In addition, if this involves posts, we will want posts that are well tagged, so we should filter for posts older than (a month?) with at least (30?) gentags.

Heres a few ideas that could work:
A: What tag applies to all these posts?

• User is shown a selection of posts that have the tag (and maybe some similar posts that do not?)
• Difficulty is how common the tag is. By the end of the week, we use tags with ~150 uses. At the start of the week, we use tags with (~3000?) uses.
• The User wins (green) by guessing the correct tag or a tag that implies it.
• User gets feedback from the game (yellow) if they guess a related tag (within implication tree)
• Maybe a scored number based on "distance" to the solution?

B: Which posts have the mystery tag?

• User is shown a collection of posts. Some (N) of them have the tag, others don't.
• Goal is to identify all N posts have the mystery tag.
• User's turn is to select N posts (they must select N). If they the post has the tag, its green.
• Once the user submits all N posts, they win (number of turns is score). On win, the tag is revealed.

A potential lead-on from the initial concept could used fixed length if you tune the parameters accordingly. Say you picked a tag that's 5-15 characters long & doesn't use any characters besides letters & underscores. Just as an initial idea, you could have the # of guesses be g = 6 + 2(n - 5), with n being the number of characters in the tag. E.g. 5 character long tags follow Wordle's conventions (6 guesses), 6 character long tags give you 2 extra guesses, 7 character long tags give you 5 extra guesses,

As for Option B, that could be like the NY Times Connections puzzle, where you group 16 options by 4 hidden criteria; you could have 16 posts, each sharing 1 tag with 4 other posts.

You could easily do the same as the rule34dle but instead of having to guess between characters, the player is shown 2 tags and has to guess which of them has more posts

If you want to put a bit more work into it, you could use the related tags list to implements something like the movie to movie or the similar wikipedia race ones, where you start on a specific tag and have to arrive at the other one thats given

Related tags and wiki descriptiosns can be used for a version of catfishing

That's all that comes to mind for now, not really super on the "educational" or original side, but pretty much all of those are already just slightly varaitions on the same basic ideas anyway. I also specifically went for the ones that don't require any of the pictures uploaded here, just the tag data

mabit said:
If you want to put a bit more work into it, you could use the related tags list to implements something like the movie to movie or the similar wikipedia race ones, where you start on a specific tag and have to arrive at the other one thats given

Someone has actually already done that on https://speed621.xyz/, it's pretty cool.