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General Forums => Academic / School => Math and Other Problems => Topic started by: iago on July 09, 2007, 10:26:16 am

Title: Name All the Elements!
Post by: iago on July 09, 2007, 10:26:16 am

This is sort of a problem. Here's a site with an interesting puzzle:
http://listgames.net/elements

How many of the elements can you name? (NOTE: don't look at the screenshot, it's a spoiler!) I managed to get 54 (http://www.javaop.com/~ron/images/screenshots/elements.png) of them, which was pretty decent in my opinion. I missed a couple easy ones, which I'm sad about, but I got most of the ones I knew!

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: rabbit on July 09, 2007, 11:05:42 am

87 (http://www.liquid-server.org/images/87elements.png) :'(

I got stumped on Molybdernum because of that stupid "b" in there.  I should have had 88 :\

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: Ender on July 09, 2007, 08:20:46 pm

Hey rabbit, I just noticed the band Lacuna Coil in your sig. If you like them you might like Tristania :P

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: Blaze on July 10, 2007, 02:37:47 am

34.  :(

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: leet_muffin on July 16, 2007, 04:48:35 pm

40. =/

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: trust on July 16, 2007, 11:01:50 pm

ummm I got like 8 and gave up  :(

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: deadly7 on July 17, 2007, 09:10:00 am

Website's down for me..

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: iago on July 17, 2007, 11:31:07 am

Works fine for me. If you're blocking JavaScript, make sure you allow the domain listgames.net, since it's a JavaScript game.

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: maximile on July 17, 2007, 11:46:32 am

Hey,

Saw you guys on my referer logs. Thanks for visiting. :)

The website was down for a few minutes today because of a powercut, but also the whole site doesn't yet work with Internet Explorer. Some day I'll fix that bug and make it work...

BTW, you can type "give up" when you get bored and it'll show you what you missed.

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: iago on July 17, 2007, 11:56:53 am

I'm glad I didn't say anything bad about the site (not that there's anything bad to say :) )!

As cool as the elements are, I can't believe you have "name the Pratchett Discworld" novels. My absolute favorite author! I'm still upset that I only got 27 of them, though :(

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: maximile on July 17, 2007, 02:27:04 pm

Yeah, I'm a big fan of his too. I thought I'd easily be able to guess them all. But when it actually comes down to it, it's a lot harder than you imagine. And I had no excuse, because I had to go through the whole list just before to check for alternate spellings and so on. ::)

Title: Re: Name All the Elements!
Post by: iago on July 17, 2007, 03:28:07 pm

I'm going to wait a couple weeks and try again, hopefully by then I won't be remembering them from doing the test.

It was lucky timing, though, because until recently I hadn't even heard of a couple. Namely, the Wee Free Men, Hat Full of Sky, and Wintersmith. Only recently I picked those up.