I nerd-sniped myself.
Internet: I am disappointed that you have not provided me with one of those meme-maker websites for a Family Fortunes board. Now I will have to make one.
See, I put word to thought and that was my mistake. So I spent, like, half my Saturday doing this instead of what I should be doing.
I got to use a couple of interesting techniques with it that I hadn't done before, now that nice new web APIs exist for them: sharing an image, for example, which involves creating a Blob (thank you Thomas Steiner), doing the equivalent of the venerable "yellow fade technique" with the web animations API, and yoinking all the information from a <form> conveniently by reading new FormData(form) in form.oninput. This is all cool stuff; the web's such a nice environment to program for.
A number of people have pointed out that this is not emulating the particular style of Family Fortunes board that they prefer, to which our survey says: feel free to make your own. This is the one I grew up with; those of you of more venerable years who prefer Max Bygraves or Bob Monkhouse to Les Dennis will simply have to struggle on under the burden. (Let us not speak of the appalling colourful modern video wall, which is just literally no fun at all and looks like a pub quiz machine.) Also, it turns out that Quite A Lot Of People have Opinions on what the exact shape of the X's should be, and no two of these opinions are the same. All good clean fun, yes.
Anyway, I can't think that this is ever likely to be all that important, but if you ever need a way to mock up a Family Fortunes1 screen from the 1980s with your own custom answers and scores, we asked 100 people and they all said that kryogenix.org/code/family-fortunes is right there waiting patiently for you. Enjoy.
- I think Americans call it Family Feud? ↩