#the sorting game

[improbabledreams900]

I cannot overstate how much time I spend playing The Sorting Game. I spent a couple days on the original Thomas Coltrane version and gave myself a migraine because using my laptop for that many hours is not exactly accessible to me, but 10x10 grids on my phone are extremely accessible and it has been my Hyperfixation for the past several weeks. To the point where I’m regularly finishing with 0 mistakes and no googling because I’ve just learned what the categories are and what goes in them.

I was so excited to see new categories added today!

So thank you for giving a mostly-bedbound disabled Autistic a way to pass the interminable hours and even learn some things!

Oh, wow! I'm glad you're getting so much out of it! 💕

Many of the new categories came courtesy of bird-jay! I've had a couple of other people also reach out about contributing, so hopefully there will be additional new categories in the future. 😊

[improbabledreams900]

Hello. I've been really enjoying your expanded version of that category matching game. I was wondering if you were interested in sourcing more categories? I started making new lists in a spreadsheet and I thought you might want to incorporate some of them, assuming making additions is relatively easy. (I don't THINK any of them are duplicates of what you've already made)

Sure, send me a DM. So long as they seem like common knowledge or are reasonably guessable, and don't have too much overlap with existing categories, I'm happy to add them.

[improbabledreams900]

on your sorting game clone -- would it be possible to make it not lose progress on refresh? mobile Firefox has a hair trigger and I didn't have that issue with the original game 💜

Hi anon, it took me a while to figure this out, but it should be working now!

[improbabledreams900]

hello~ I just wanted to tell you that I play the sorting game every day for at least an hour or so! it's often the last thing I'm doing when I fall asleep. I absolutely love it! I wanted to say thank you and let you know how much fun I'm having~

also, since you can see the first two items in a group, I like to make fun combinations like:

Great Bear Of The Woods

What'd I Miss? My Shot

Don't Stop Me Now, Fat Bottomed Girls

Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! Oh The Places You'll Go!

Reputeless Ladybird

Oh, wonderful, I'm glad you're enjoying it! 💕 And very funny combinations, as well 😂

(Also, to the anon who messaged me about some typos, those should be fixed now, thank you!)

[improbabledreams900]

Hi, I'm really enjoying your version of the sorting game--would you mind if I made a copy with categories from one of my fandoms?

Go ahead, it's released under a Creative Commons Share Alike with Attribution License (as was the original version).

[improbabledreams900]

would you be willing to accept suggestions for more categories on the sorting game?? (i would offer all members of the "groups")

Sure! (and same to @haberdashing)

I've got some general guidelines (e.g., categories should either be common knowledge or reasonably guessable), but would be happy to add more. Feel free to DM me.

[myopinionisimportant]

Spoilers for The Sorting Game, but I got a game that was, I will say, fairly tailored to my interests:

Most of the planets and Doctor Who episodes were easy because I am a huge dork, greek letters were even easier, the Hamilton songs I mostly know from being on tumblr all these years...the one that gave me real trouble was STEVE, which it turns out is some kind of atmospheric thingamabob!

I'm finding this one more fun than the original, personally, because when I do find something that I have NO idea about, it's often possible to narrow down my options or brute-force things a bit, which is less possible with twenty-five categories.

Anyhoo, join me! It's fun and free! https://victoria.danclan.com/the-sorting-game.html