Welcome to Babl! We've decided to build a brand new language-guessing game for the internet! Inspired by Wordle and Neardle, we've brought a brand new take to daily word puzzles.
Every day, a new phrase in a foreign language will appear on Babl. You have to guess what language the phrase is written in (it doesn't matter what the phrase actually says). If your guess is right, you'll win! If your guess is wrong, we'll tell you how close you got. You only get 6 tries. Good luck! (It used to get harder throughout the week but we scrapped that.)
We're pretty much done! We still come back for minor edits and changes every once and a while so keep your eyes out!
We're hosting our code on Replit and GitHub. We've been programming with HTML, CSS, and JS. We're also using some JSON to store large data (eg. language proximity, possible solutions). We're hosting with GitHub, through babl.day.
- Luke Dreyfuss, Wyatt Foster, and Léo Fitzpatrick: Original creators and programmers
- Abe Kirschner, Danica Stout, & Dylan Rafael: Troubleshooting, programming, and technical setup
- Josh Wardle: For being a legend and making Wordle
- Open AI: For making ChatGPT to helping us debug (and usually break our code)
- elinguistics.net: The original producers of the algorithm we use
- @polvanrijn on GitHub: Author of the scraper program for elinguistics.net
Thanks to everyone that helped make this project possible! It really takes a village.