Tube quiz name game
 

Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

Tube quiz name game
 

On 30 Jul 2006 10:33:57 GMT, Iain wrote:

Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Well I got it almost all right from memory.

The beckton and king George branches of DLR did my head and I had to
look them up. I could not remember Goldhawk Road for the life of me nor
Buckhurst Hill or Grange Hill!

Remembering the north London line from memory must count as some sort of
sad memory feat.

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter the
correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance around
getting it precisely right. The same applies to Kings Cross which has
to have St Pancras added. More bizarrely if you attempt to correct
punctuate your entry for places like St John's Wood that would be
rejected even though the programme correctly punctuates it on the map!

--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Tube quiz name game
 

Paul Corfield typed

Well I got it almost all right from memory.

Jammy boy!

The beckton and king George branches of DLR did my head and I had to
look them up. I could not remember Goldhawk Road for the life of me nor
Buckhurst Hill or Grange Hill!

I named Statford and Bank, but my knowlege of the DLR = zilch!

Remembering the north London line from memory must count as some sort of
sad memory feat.

I got four or five; lamentable really

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter the
correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance around
getting it precisely right.

I gave up after three attempts; I know where it is & that's enough for me.

The same applies to Kings Cross which has
to have St Pancras added.

Yes, so I discovered...

I'm sad to say I've not yet hit 50%, so I'll study the map & return.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Tube quiz name game
 

Iain wrote:
Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

Is it possible to save and come back later?

Tube quiz name game
 

C! wrote:

Iain wrote:
Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

Is it possible to save and come back later?

Or even have a mini-game where a random section of the Tube map is
displayed and the player must just name those stations. It would make
the coding much harder I'm sure, but I have goldfish-esque attention
span and... and... what was I talking about again? ;-)

Tube quiz name game
 

Iain wrote:
Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and occasional
poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might appeal
to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look at
www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

Be nice to have a drop down list to select the station from after you
start typing it in.

Tube quiz name game
 

"C!" wrote in
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Is it possible to save and come back later?

As long as you have cookies enabled on your browser, this should be
automatic.

Iain

Tube quiz name game
 

Paul Corfield wrote in
:

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter
the correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance
around getting it precisely right. The same applies to Kings Cross
which has to have St Pancras added. More bizarrely if you attempt to
correct punctuate your entry for places like St John's Wood that
would be rejected even though the programme correctly punctuates it
on the map!

The code I've written makes it possible to have multiple correct entries
for each station. In some places I've done that to try to catch common
punctuation problems (eg "St. Paul's" and "St Pauls" are equally valid).
You're right about St. John's Wood though, I managed to miss the correct
version out of the synonyms list. I'm open to any suggestions for all
stations, although I dare say that for every person who'd like "King's
Cross" admitted there'll be someone else who swears blind that the only
valid name for the station is "King's Cross St. Pancras".

Iain

Tube quiz name game
 

On 30 Jul 2006 21:02:17 GMT, Iain wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote in
:

One comment I would make is that it took about ten attempts to enter
the correct name for Heathrow T123 as there is obviously no tolerance
around getting it precisely right. The same applies to Kings Cross
which has to have St Pancras added. More bizarrely if you attempt to
correct punctuate your entry for places like St John's Wood that
would be rejected even though the programme correctly punctuates it
on the map!

The code I've written makes it possible to have multiple correct entries
for each station. In some places I've done that to try to catch common
punctuation problems (eg "St. Paul's" and "St Pauls" are equally valid).
You're right about St. John's Wood though, I managed to miss the correct
version out of the synonyms list. I'm open to any suggestions for all
stations, although I dare say that for every person who'd like "King's
Cross" admitted there'll be someone else who swears blind that the only
valid name for the station is "King's Cross St. Pancras".

I cannot think of the last time that anyone I know or have heard in
conversation or who asked me directions ever used the full name. People
just call it Kings Cross - after the area.

Once there people may ask the way to St Pancras station.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Tube quiz name game
 

Paul Weaver wrote:
Iain wrote:
Apologies for the semi-spammage, but as a long-time lurker and
occasional poster, I thought I might be able to get away with it.

I've written a little tube stations quiz game which I think might
appeal to some of the people here. Please feel free to take a look
at www.waitingforlunchtime.co.uk and have a play. Hope you enjoy it!

Iain

Be nice to have a drop down list to select the station from after you
start typing it in.

That would make it too easy, especially for stations like Finchley Road and
Frognal or Caledonian Road & Barnsbury, where people might remember that
there are two halves but not remember the second half.

Anyway, thanks Paul, it's a wonderful quiz which you will spend the next
forty years regretting ever having done, because you'll have to maintain it
every time LU change the network!

(I got every station correct except the DLR from Poplar to Beckton/North
Woolwich, Becontree, and Paddington H&C which I called Royal Oak for reasons
which are obvious if you look at the map.)