ru-catfishing
A small daily web game: guess the Russian Wikipedia article from its
categories. 10 puzzles a day, shareable result (Wordle-style), zero login.
Inspired by catfishing: original concept by Sumana Harihareswara; name and
original implementation by Kevan Davis (2006); the modern daily game at
catfishing.net is made by an anonymous developer, Matthew. This is an independent
Russian-language build.
🐟 Live: https://imangulova.github.io/ru-catfishing/
Structure
app/ — the production game: SvelteKit + adapter-static, deployed to
GitHub Pages via Actions. Strict privacy: ships only categories + hashed
accepted answers + base64-obfuscated reveal (no plaintext answers in client).prototype/ — v0 single-file HTML prototype (kept for reference).scripts/ — Python helpers:
build_pool.py — fetch RU featured/good articles, filter categories, hash.make_day.py — turn a curated day into the strict client data format.
research/ — notes on games we learn from (catfishing.md).BACKLOG.md — epics and progress.
Run the app locally
cd app
npm install
npm run dev # dev server
npm run build # static build -> app/build/
Deploy
Push to main → GitHub Actions builds app/ and deploys to Pages
(.github/workflows/deploy.yml). Pages Source must be set to GitHub Actions.
BASE_PATH is derived from the repo name automatically.
North star
Daily puzzle + tiny shareable result + zero login. Cheap to host
(static site on GitHub Pages).
Attribution
- Original concept: Sumana Harihareswara.
- Name and original implementation: Kevan Davis (2006).
- The modern daily game (catfishing.net): an anonymous developer, Matthew.
- This project (ru-catfishing) is an independent Russian-language build.
- Data: ru.wikipedia category data, GFDL.
