Matching answers

StreamArena matches guesses loosely on purpose: a viewer who types the lion kng!! for "The Lion King" got it right. Every guess is normalized, then compared word by word with a small typo allowance that grows with the length of the answer.

What matching ignores

• Case and accents: AMÉLIE matches "Amelie".
• Punctuation and a leading "the".
• Filler words, like "is it", "i think", "maybe" or "my answer".
• Small typos, including two swapped letters.

A guess that lists several titles at once, like matrix dune frozen, does not match.

Typo allowance

Answer length	Typos allowed
Up to 4 letters	0
5 to 7 letters	1
8 to 12 letters	2
Longer	3

In your game

text.matches(answers) is true for a match, and text.isClose(answers) for a near miss. Outside a round, Playcade.match() does the same:

Playcade.match('the lion kng', ['The Lion King']).ok   // true