More updates to the Bingo Card Generator

[magibrain]

Hallo, all! I'm the one who's been coding the Bingo Card Generator over at http://an.owomoyela.net/fun/bingo_generator , and I thought I'd drop in and let you know of some new features.

• A longstanding bug with the Aarne-Thompson Fairytale Classifications list has been resolved, meaning that now you can use that list in conjunction with other lists, and it will select values from the whole Aarne-Thompson list and not just the first 852 or so.
• Background color, text color, and border color are now all customizable, with a popup color picker. You should be able to specify any color you'd like for any of these values, and if all the JavaScript is working correctly, you'll be able to see how it looks in an example square before selecting it.
• You can now generate 3x3 and 7x7 cards.

I'm hoping to add in an option to toggle the free space on and off soon, as well as adding 2x2, 4x4, and 6x6 generators. (The even square generators, for reasons having to do with code architecture, need the free space toggle to be implemented before they can be added in.)

Anyway, let me know if you see anything going wildly wrong! And if there are features you'd really like to see, let me know. I can't promise to implement them all, but I know that people may begin using this in ways I didn't anticipate, and it's be cool to support those uses as much as is practical. :)

–magi

[Update] Just added in some center-space customization!

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> A longstanding bug with the Aarne-Thompson Fairytale Classifications list has been resolved <<

Awesome. I love that reference book.

>> Background color, text color, and border color are now all customizable, with a popup color picker. <<

Yay! I'm sorry that I didn't get around to mentioning this update. It's Poetry Fishbowl week and I've been busy.

>> You can now generate 3x3 and 7x7 cards. <<

W00T! This will be really useful. I have updated the description to reflect these new features.

>> I'm hoping to add in an option to toggle the free space on and off soon, as well as 2x2, 4x4, and 6x6 generators. (The even square generators, for reasons having to do with code architecture, need the free space toggle to be implemented before they can be added in.) <<

That makes sense, given that even-numbered grids don't have a center space.

Thanks again for all your hard work. This tool is really useful! So far I've used it to make a public card for Bingo Valentines and at least one person is planning to use that.

[carriemac]

Thanks so much! Especially for the 3x3 cards. <3

[clare_dragonfly]

This is awesome! Thanks for doing so much work (and thanks again for fixing the Aarne-Thompson bug). I am looking forward to being able to toggle the free space off and on--I am just not a fan of free spaces.

[lightbird]

Thank you so much for all your hard work on this!

[unsettledink]

Awesome! Thank you for the work you've put into this.

[vexed_wench]

Thanks so much for all the work you put into the generator. As soon as I clear off a few things I want to grab a card or two.

[thisbluespirit]

This is beautiful!

Incidentally, I have an intention to run a mini-bingo challenge on an apocalyptic theme (hopefully) soonish, so would it be okay to use this to generate the 3x3 cards for it? It's just perfect for what I want, especially as it'll be just a small random fest. (Also, as it'll be a one-off thing, I can donate my list a apocalyptic prompts for general use post fest. Er, if people want a list of apocalyptic threats!!) With credit to you, of course.

But either way, this is just brilliant, and thanks!

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Playing around with the prompt lists made me wonder something. How do lists of different lengths interact with each other? Some lists are very long, while others are shorter. My suspicion is that long lists may wind up putting more prompts into a card where several lists are merged.

Might there be a way to toggle between "merge all lists and select randomly" (which will weight toward longer lists) or "take similar amounts from each list" (which will balance lists)? It would probably have to be restricted by numbers; frex, you could do 2 lists with 12 prompts from each, or 4 lists with 6, etc.