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Alternate spellings would be great, and guessing the first name would also be good. Maybe you could facilitate this:

1. What's your crush's full name?

2. What's your crush's first name?

3. What's your crush's screen name?

I got 3 guesses for her twitter handle, and 1 for her first name, and 2 for first and last name. I happen to know her middle name, and entered that, so it registered all of these as incorrect.




I agree, I entered the full name and people I sent it to are guessing mostly first names and getting it wrong even if they guess the right first name.


Added a number of words in name hint on the guessing page! Hope this works!


Definitely a great idea... I'll try to throw this in ASAP. Perhaps I'll have it update the prompt as you've described instead of increasing the flexibility of the comparison.


Thanks for your excellent idea. I added a number of words hint to the guess page -- let me know if you think this'll do it :D


Nope, not doing it.

The font is way too small. Is there any way to make it case-insensitive? Or perhaps tell someone how close they were, or if they matched any of hte parts of the name?




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