We love spreadsheets. And of course, once every four years, we also get mad about soccer. So why not merge both in to one awesome, frivolous and fun thing: Introducing….
Excel soccer game
The best part is you don’t have to run up to play this. Set your aim and let RANDBETWEEN() decide your fate.
Check out a quick demo of the game below
Download Excel Soccer Game – VBA File
Click here to download the game workbook. Enable macros to enjoy it. View Code to see VBA code behind this game. Go to “Calc” tab to explore the calculations.
How is this game created?
We use same ideas as discussed in Excel animated chart tutorial. Here is the brief outline of how I made this game.
- This is just an XY Chart with images for ball, goal keeper and aim marker.
- After user inputs the aim (X & Y) for where the ball should go, we generate a random position to which Goal Keeper will dive.
- We then calculate 100 frames
- Co-ordinates (x,y) for ball and goal keeper at each frame
- When “Shoot” is clicked, we just run a for loop in VBA to pick 1 frame at a time and show
- Oh yeah, some IF formulas to check if GK stopped the ball or not. If so, we stop the animation and show an image with goal keeper + ball.
- Lastly, we update the scores and show the progress as a sparkline
As this is a technical bit, I made a small video explaining the process. Check it out below (or on Chandoo.org Youtube channel)
That is all for now. Happy soccer & spreadsheets.
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13 Responses to “Data Validation using an Unsorted column with Duplicate Entries as a Source List”
Pivot Table will involve manual intervention; hence I prefer to use the 'countif remove duplicate trick' along with 'text sorting formula trick; then using the offset with len to name the final range for validation.
if using the pivot table, set the sort to Ascending, so the list in the validation cell comes back alphabetically.
Hui: Brillant neat idea.
Vipul: I am intrigued by what you are saying. Please is it possible to show us how it can be done, because as u said Hui's method requires user intervention.
Thks to PHD and all
K
Table names dont work directly inside Data validation.
You will have to define a name and point it to the table name and then use the name inside validation
Eg MyClient : Refers to :=Table1[Client]
And then in the list validation say = MyClient
Kieranz,
Pls download the sample here http://cid-e98339d969073094.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/data-validation-unsorted-list-example.xls
Off course there are many other ways of doing the same and integrating the formulae in multiple columns into one.
Pls refer to column FGHI in that file. Cell G4 is where my validation is.
Vipul:
Many thks, will study it latter.
Rgds
K
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@Vipul:
Thanks, that was awesome! 🙂
@Playercharlie Happy to hear that 🙂
Great contribution, Hui. Solved a problem of many years!
Thanks to you, A LOT
Hi Hui,
Greeting
hope you are doing well.
I'm interested to send you a private vba excel file which i need to show detail of pivot in new workbook instead of showing in same workbook as new sheet.
Please contact me on muhammed.ye@gmail.com
Best Regards