Ancient Egyptian Mysteries

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https://ancient-egypt-quest.replit.app/

This is a simple riddle game website I built for anyone that wants to have a bit of fun, rise to the challenge and learn something about the Egyptian civilization.

My process was as follows:

  1. Ask ChatGPT o1 to generated 10 riddles around an Egyptian theme and include a relevant title, the riddle itself and the clue to each riddle
  2. Ask Replit Agent to create the initial website - this was the prompt:

Create a website that presents a treasure hunt puzzle to the user. The home page should introduce the concept and have a button that takes the user to the first puzzle page. Each puzzle page should contain a puzzle title, a riddle, an input box where the user can type in the answer and a button to check the answer. Once the correct answer is found the page displays some trivia information or educational facts related to the clue context for each answer. Once the tenth riddle is answered correctly a button allows the user to go to one final congratulations page. Below are the 10 puzzles with their title, riddle, answer and clue context.

  1. Ask Replit Assistant to make various changes to the initial prototype like: find and include a link to a relevant Wikipedia article once a riddle is answered correctly, add a hint system, count how many riddles were solved without any hints, etc.

  2. Once I was happy with the results, I published the website and sent it around to friends of family.

This was a fun project I used for learning purposes and for 30 minutes of my time to get to this point using Replit, it felt like pure magic. When Replit Agent start building the initial prototype as requested and I see code flying on the screen, libraries being setup, etc. it feels like I am living in the Matrix.

One thing I did struggle to get Replit to do on this project is to add some relevant pictures on the page when a riddle is answered correctly. The assistant was trying to embed the pictures from the Wikipedia pages, but they weren’t loading. I had no clue why either, so I just gave up on that idea.

This was a lot of fun! Enjoy!

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I like this concept and look. Would multiple choice with 8 different answers that are alike be easier? LOL, I couldn’t even pass 1 because I cant spell the word even though I knew the answer… :confused:

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Yeah, I know! Those are not simple words to spell. I don’t think I will be making more modifications to this website. It was just a quick hobby project to try out Replit, so it served its purpose for that. I intentionally included an option to get the actual answer after using 3 hints to make sure that no one is blocked on any riddle. This is more of a learning opportunity about Egyptian lore than an actual competitive thing. In fact, the scores at the end might be wrongly calculated. I haven’t spent a lot of time testing that specifically.

Thanks for trying it!