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stervyon I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

Hi applecrazy! I'm the author of the article.

I'm really sorry that the work seems like it plagiarizes yours. I started this project as soon as HQ Trivia came out, and I did not see your article until reading this comment.

A few other comments on this thread show that others (e.g. https://github.com/nbclark/hqcheat/) also implemented very similar techniques, so it seems that this may just be a "great minds think alike" situation :/.

I'd love to support your article as well, as I love your format and videos! Let me know if you'd like to talk about plagiarism, would love for us to talk directly instead of on comments.

stervyon I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

Kind of hacky, but I'm using the shell "screencapture" command and setting the coordinates to the spot on the computer screen where I put the quicktime screen mirroring window

stervyon I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

Ah that's smart. I usually would just read the outputs of my script the opposite way (So find the "min" number of search results, etc.)

stervyon I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

This is the guy who wrote the post!

Wow, so funny we had the same approaches.

stervyon I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

Hey, Cognetta here :).

I also cropped the screenshot before running OCR, but I can still imagine HQ changing its UI frequently to thwart OCR attempts.

stervyon I wrote a script that wins the majority of HQ Trivia games

I'm the guy who wrote the article. I can confirm this all works well under 10 seconds, so you can read the results and click the answer.

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Wow, that's awesome! I'm going to PM you :)