Guess the publication from the headline

Hello, I made a quick little application which shows some random headlines and you guess which publication they came from. It’s very rough so don’t get mad if it breaks. Comments appreciated.

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/headliner

Edit:
Thanks to everyone who’s been using it. The code is now open source under the AGPL. It’s written in Ruby in Rails, although I was originally planning to write it in Sinatra.

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June 18, 2009 • Posted in: Uncategorized

4 Responses to “Guess the publication from the headline”

  1. Alfie - June 19, 2009

    That’s a great little app, Julian.

    The BBC headlines are by far the easiest to spot - but I was also surprised how close the Sun’s headlines were to the BBC’s format.

  2. Wowser - June 22, 2009

    Good fun, and a great idea, but half the time I’m having trouble with it registering my answer. (Then you have to click on the link to the quiz again).

  3. Dougie - June 23, 2009

    You need to maintain an array of which headlines I’ve already seen. If I get one wrong, the next time it appears I’ve already been given the answer.

  4. Julian Burgess - June 24, 2009

    There was a bug which I fixed this morning which meant it was picking from a smaller pool of headlines than it should do, so hopefully repeats will be less common now. I considered adding a way of keeping track of which ones you’ve answered, but for a quick fun game it didn’t seem worth it.

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