PhotoSoup is a visual word puzzle generator built with tag-photo pairs from Flickr. This prototype uses public, Creative-Commons-licensed photos and Flickr's open APIs. The object of the game is to find all the tags hidden (up, down, across, and diagonal) in the puzzle square. The photos around the perimeter of the puzzle are the clues -- the player views a series of photos and tries to discover the associated tag-words. The player's objective is to find all the tags hidden in the puzzle before time runs out.
PhotoSoup began as a hack for Yahoo! Europe's internal hack day back in October 2007. When our puzzle hack won the "Coolest Hack" prize, we were inspired to finish what we'd started, and share the fun with the rest of the world.
To create and play a new puzzle, the player enters a topic (or tag), such as "zoo" or "landscape" or "food." Or, you can enter your own Flickr screen name to generate a puzzle built with images from your photostream. Of course, you can also try this with public photos from your friends and contacts, by entering their screen names.
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Finally, it's worth mentioning that it is also possible to embed a PhotoSoup puzzle on your homepage, or in a blog. Simply follow the link to embed the puzzle, and we will generate the code that you should include.
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