Posted 9:48 PM by Floyd

This weekend while piloting the car on a long drive up and down the coast I amused myself by reciting the chemical elements. Today I googled "periodic table" quiz and found The Periodic Table Challenge.

One thing the web is good at is taking people down a peg or two. I thought I was a Big Swinging Dick because I knew the first 40 or so elements (and their relationships) by heart. The Periodic Table challenge is a periodic table that is all blanks; you fill in the blanks with the chemical symbols of the elements. The game then tells you, a la Mastermind, how many total elements you got wrong. It is only in novice mode that you are told which specific elements were mistaken.