Generate a .pptx presentation containing randomly-ordered prompts for a scavenger hunt.
Perhaps useful for other things too?
I was looking for a way to run a remote scavenger hunt tournament as a distributed activity with my extended family. The same people who would be participating were also submitting prompt ideas to a Google Form that wrote to a Google Sheet. I was participating as well, so I needed a way to present each individual prompt without having an unfair advantage. This script generates a .pptx file that I could present to the call.
Change URL in fetch_scavenger_hunt_prompts.rb to match the publicly-readable CSV URL for the Google Sheet containing your prompts.
Then run:
ruby ./fetch_scavenger_hunt_prompts.rb > scavenger.txt
pandoc scavenger.txt -o scavenger.pptx
open scavenger.pptx