Okay, so I had this idea buzzing around my head the other day. Big football fan, you know? Especially the NFL. I thought, wouldn’t it be kinda fun to make a little game, just for myself really, to see how well I actually know the team logos? Like a quick quiz thing.
Getting the Ball Rolling
First thing I did was hunt down the logos. Needed images for all the NFL teams. Spent a bit of time searching online, grabbing a decent quality picture for each one. Saved them all into a folder on my computer, just trying to keep things organized from the start. You know how quickly these little projects can get messy if you don’t.
Putting the Pieces Together
Alright, got the pictures. Now what? I fired up my usual coding setup. Nothing fancy, just the basics to get something showing up on a screen. I started by figuring out how to just display one of those logos, picked randomly each time the page loaded. Took a little fiddling, but got that working. Just seeing a random team logo pop up felt like a small win!
Then came the guessing part. I decided multiple choice was the way to go. Seemed easiest. So, for each logo shown, I needed to:
- Show the correct team name as one option.
- Pull three other random team names as wrong answers.
- Mix these four options up so the right answer wasn’t always in the same spot.
That mixing part actually took a bit more thought than I expected, haha. Had to make sure I wasn’t accidentally showing the same wrong answer twice, you know? Wrote some simple code to handle picking the logo, getting the right name, finding some wrong names, and then shuffling them up to display as buttons or choices.
Making it Interactive
Okay, so I could see a logo and four names. Now I needed to actually check the guess. I hooked up the buttons so when you clicked one, the program would compare the name on the button to the actual name of the team whose logo was showing.
If it was right, cool! Maybe show a little “Correct!” message. If it was wrong, show “Nope, that’s not it.” I also wanted to keep score. Started a simple counter. Every right answer added one point. Every wrong answer… well, maybe it just moved on to the next logo without adding a point. Didn’t want to make it too punishing, it’s just for fun.
Testing and Tweaking
Spent a good while just playing it myself. Click, guess, see if it worked. Found a few bugs here and there. Sometimes the same wrong answer would appear multiple times – had to fix that logic. Sometimes the score didn’t update right away. Just the usual stuff when you’re building something, even something small like this. Cleaned those bits up.
I thought about adding a timer later, make it a bit more frantic, but decided against it for now. Wanted to keep it simple. Just a straightforward logo guesser. Show logo, guess name, get score, next logo.
Finished (For Now)
And that’s pretty much where I left it! It works. It shows an NFL logo, gives me four choices, tells me if I’m right, and keeps score. It’s not gonna win any awards, but it was a fun little afternoon project. Satisfying to take that little idea and just… make it real, you know? Even if it’s just a simple logo guesser game sitting on my computer.
