| Practice Mode |
|
Practice mode highlights the correct answer after one wrong guess, unless your guess
was directly adjacent to the correct answer. In that case you have a 50% chance of getting it right on your second guess.
Practice mode is available for Repeat Games, Shuffle Games and New Games. Highly recommended for beginners. |
| Repeat Game |
|
Play the exact same game in the exact same order.
Drill the data into your brain! But beware the dangers of simple pattern matching. |
| Shuffle Game |
|
Play the same game but in random order.
The context of familiar names will help enormously with repeated play. |
| New Game |
|
Play a completely new set of names in random order.
Expert level play. |
| Sound Effects |
| Toggle sound on/off. |
| Help |
|
Categorize the life span of each philosopher in the appropriate century or centuries. Overlapping centuries are on the left. If, for example, the philosopher in question was born in the 18th century and died in the 19th century you would click on the category that overlaps 18 and 19. Categories range from Seventh/Sixth Century B.C. up to Twentieth/Twenty-First Century A.D. Hyperlinks: Once placed in the correct century on the game board, you may click on any name to learn more about the philosophers. Your score starts out at 100 and drops one tenth of one point for each category separating your answer from the correct answer. Think before answering. If your score drops below zero you lose. If you click a category adjacent to the correct one the category will turn pink. This gives you a 50% chance of clicking the right category on your next move. Remember that the adjacent category is located on the opposite side of the board. Practice Mode highlights the correct answer after one incorrect guess, unless the correct answer is immediately adjacent. If the text overflows from its division, hit control-minus [CTR][-] to reduce the font size. |
| About NameDrop |
|
There are over 1400 philosophers in the database so a perfect game of 100 is hard to achieve.
Some centuries contain far more names than others. If you play often you will get to know the sparsely populated zones quite well. Keep at it and you will learn a lot. Success seems difficult, but each category filled is one fewer option to consider next time so it does get easier as you play. Think carefully about your answers and have fun learning. |
| Copyleft |
|
NameDrop Philosophy Game, Copyleft 2007 David Ross
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Click to see the GNU General Public License for more details. |
| The NameDrop Database |
|
Click to view the complete database of philosophy names and dates. Right-click...Save As to save (NameDrop.CSV)
Be sure to send feedback to the author if typographical errors are found, or any other database errors or significant omissions. |
| Download |
Click to download the source code for NameDrop (NameDrop.zip)
See the Copyleft section for more details. |
| Send Feedback |
Click to send feedback to the author with:
|
| Set Bounds |
|
Allows you to limit the scope of play. By default the whole board is in play. Beginners or specialists may want to limit play
to smaller sections of time.
After clicking this button, click on the upper and lower bounds you would like to set. Play will continue with these bounds until the page is reloaded or you change them manually again. |
| Philosophy Now Magazine |
| Click to return to the PhilosophyNow homepage. |
| Debug Window |
| Text |
