Today’s goals were around usability, and adding a My Profile section. I had not written instructions nor given any scoring tips yet:
Leave the How Scoring Works Header, but replace everything else in that box with the following markdown:
Lowest Score Wins!
Your score has 2 components:
Your Brevity score is calculated by the number of criterion you enter, and the number of words in each. Scoring punishes putting multiple criterion in one line – it’s better to break them up, one thought per line.
Your Clarity score is (an exponent of) the number of objects Claude can find that meet all the criteria you entered. One is the target here.
These are multiplied together to achieve your Total Score.
Scoring Tips:
The scores are weighted such that it’s always better to add an extra criterion to reduce the Clarity score to 1, as the clarity score gets worse exponentially and criteria worsen linearly.
Articles and lead-in words should be stricken from scoring, so “Is a flower” should score the same as “flower”, but since you’ve read the directions, you can just say “flower”
One exception: “has” – if your eval “has” something, you’ll need to say that word. We assume “is”, but never “has”
And I also wanted to add a profile so people could have anonymous usernames, check their history, and eventually, do other “Account stuff” like join Genius Circles or Change their Usernames.
We need to create a new section – a My Profile page – it should have a link up in the top row with archive and leaderboard. When you go to the My Profile page, you’ll be able to see your GeniusTag (username), and a list of all of your previous plays, where each day’s “row” (entry) has information about where you ended on the day’s leaderboard, what the puzzle was, and a list of the criteria you entered.
Heres the prompt I used to generate your Genius Tags:
When the user first signs up, ask them to create their Genius Tag. There should be a default Genius Tag in the box. It should be two words concatenated together. The first word will come from the following list:
Gloopy, Radiant, Zigzag, Misty, Bouncy, Velvet, Crinkly, Golden, Humble, Spunky, Dotted, Frosty, Mellow, Zesty, Placid, Breezy, Shiny, Wobbly, Silky, Clever, Polished, Grassy, Cheerful, Sturdy, Dapper, Jovial, Crisp, Fluffy, Teal, Noble, Static, Braided, Gentle, Puffy, Kinetic, Rustic, Snappy, Eager, Balanced, Nimble
the second word will come from the following list:
Flabberjax, Glipglop, Zoorp, Quibber, Blonket, Snazzle, Murp, Voomp, Plincher, Skritch, Troodle, Glimp, Wozzel, Drimble, Splatnet, Floofle, Krink, Zandle, Blorp, Snarkle, Ploof, Gribble, Twizzle, Vronk, Jibber, Skrazz, Mip, Blidgit, Thrumble, Quirp, Glonk, Sprazzle, Flimm, Droozle, Plonk, Skree, Vazzle, Bromp, Tinket, Zibble
in that modal interstitial first screen, the user should be allowed to edit the default Genius Tag – it’s just a suggestion after all.