Developer launches TNG episode guessing game honoring Patrick Stewart
A new web game challenges players to identify Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes from image clues.
What to know
- A new web game tests knowledge of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes using image-based clues.
- The game is positioned as a tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
- Players receive feedback on correct season selections, and a new puzzle is available daily.
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“This is an episode guessing game using Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) episode images as clues.”
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2 outlets first by HN Best, 13d ago · also HN Frontpage · read ↗
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It's great just a bit toooo hard.But it's for trekkies so I'm not going to judge, I like Star Trek but I can't say that I'm anywhere as close to being a hardcore trekky, I'm still learning and getting into it.I'm happy to see work like this and I'm also curious as to how you got all the screenshot content. Was that through scraping or ffmpeg going…
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*SPOILER quote re today’s episodle*:[episode’s protagonist]: Computer, begin new programme. Create as follows, workstation chair. (he sits in it) Now, create a standard alphanumeric console positioned for left hand. Now an iconic display console positioned for right hand. Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core, utilising…
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Not to brag or anything… but I solved today’s game (306) in one guess. Because I have spent a lot of time watching and re-watching this show, immediately recounting the moment in the episode and its entire storyline!! Thank goodness you implemented full text search for the episode synopses! since I would never, ever have remembered the episode…
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What people are saying 14 voices from 1 site · best of 17 · verbatim
- Nov 2
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Just ran across this as I sit here having watched TNG all day. I also now realize I would get murdered at TNG trivia. Really fun project, thanks for this.
- Nov 1
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At first I didn't understand that each picture is from the same episode - only managed to get it on the second to last try, but in retrospect I'd have gotten it a picture or two earlier with that information.
- Oct 31
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Was I just "unlucky", every episode had Lt Barkley. One of the more unremarkable characters IMHO.
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As a long time TNG fan, I know the episodes fairly well (noticable when I rewatch them, I notice new things every time), there's one thing I've never really paid attention to and that's the episode names. So I completely fail this game.
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The aliens that want things that make them go! That's their official name isn't it?
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First attempt I didn't read the rules and didn't understand that the shots were all from the same episode.After I got that I'm now at 34/34 with win guess avg of 2.68.
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> The full text search is fairly crucialIt'd also be nice if the search had fuzzy letter matching, too. American keyboards typically don't make typing "deja q" or "menage a troi" with the diacritics particularly easy.
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The thing I shared with people was his appearance in Extras which is hilarious. It proves he can be comedic because he is just that good of an actor. RIP.
- Oct 30
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> the aliens pretending to be dumbPretending? The Pakleds were genuinely dumb. If TNG’s episode left you with any doubts, watch Lower Decks and let them all be dispelled.
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As a TNG fanatic since it first aired in ‘87 I’m surprised I didn’t get more right, but I got 60%. I missed the one about the alien race who developed the technology where you could step through a portal into another place in the galaxy (“Contagion”). I thought the race was the Iconians but it wasn’t in the episode description for some reason…
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Thanks for this! Back when TNG was on TV on the regular my wife would play a game with me, she’d flip over to TNG and pause the video, then I had to describe the episode well enough to match the guide description. I could usually get it as long as it wasn’t just a still of the Enterprise.Most of these I can get in one or two guesses through key…
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i watched TNG through when it aired as a child, and then again probably every other year since. i dont know anyone IRL who has seen or consumed more TNG, or loved it more than i doi couldnt get a single one right lol
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I appreciate this. The full text search is fairly crucial, as while I've seen the entire series more than once I cannot for the life of me remember "the name of the episode where the aliens pretending to be dumb kidnap Geordi", but the search is good enough to get there without being too obvious.
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Maybe I’m not enough of a Trekkie, but I feel multiple choice would be good here.