ahoylemon / idiots.win

Google Autocomplete Guessing Game

(The Google Autocomplete Guessing Game)

What is this?

idiots win turns Google's autocomplete algorithm into a guessing game. Each new round, the game takes all the possible autocompletes for a single query, randomizes them, and invites you to guess which one was meant to come first in the results.

Tell me more about this autocomplete query.

It is decidedly not officially supported by Google. The site does a json request out to suggestqueries.google.com and comes back with the results. It works for now, I have no idea if it will continue to work in the future.

Also, Google's autocomplete is constantly changing and based on regional information. The top result is realistically only the top result for you at that moment.

Who made this

Lemon made this. Montrith provided the majority of the queries.

Isn't this kind of like Google Feud?

Google Feud is a site built by Justin Hook that turns Google's autocomplete into a game of Family Feud. It's terrific, you should play it if you haven't. This is a different thing with a similar premise.

Can I suggest queries?

Sure. Either get a hold of Lemon to get access to the master spreadsheet, or submit a pull request.

Whose voice is that?

The "by Lemon" jingle was performed and produced by Jack Chick

Do you take pull requests?

Absolutely.

What's this written in?

• Pug
• Sass
• jQuery
• The typing effect was modified from this pen by Stathis

idiots.win's Issues

readme update

Include note to Google.

New plan to bust out of iframe.

The way that I have implemented shitty websites iframing in Idiots win is to try to remove it from the iframe.

_actions.js, line 60

However, browsers are preventing this from working.

SO, find another way to fuck with those sites.

Change site name

I think Idiots win. is a funnier site title.

Looks like I broke search queries?

Not sure how/when I did that.

https://idiots.win/?q=test

First result (right answer) appears twice in the list

Screenshots for reference.

e.g. the query "why liberals"; the answer "...are stupid" appears twice

Add To Home Screen interface

Similar to what's on damn.dog, I want to build a feature to help the user add the game to their desktop.

use full list of results.

Currently, the game is pulling the top 5 results and randomizing them.

What I would like to do instead is take the full list of results (however large), and pull a max of 5 from those.

This would require making sure that the top result is always in the 5, and that each result knows where it was on the list originally.

Home Screen Helper too high on mobile Firefox.

Match query against result.

It's possible for the query to actually show up in the list of results. This happens with "how poop". So I need to prevent that from happening.

The challenge here is in making sure that when it removes that from the list of results, it also resorts the order of results to accommodate.

Persistent round counts

Store player actions in local storage to remember what happened between sessions (similar to damn.dog's approach)

jade -> pug

Just realized this is still in jade syntax. Should update this when I can.

Prevent iframing

The site's broken for these peple, but I'd like it to be more broken.