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JUL
31
2024

Plinko Diagram

ORIGINALLY POSTED TO: https://blog.simontimms.com/2024/07/31/plinko-diagram

One of my team members mentioned that they envision the process flow of our code as a Plinko board. If you've never watched The Price is Right, a Plinko board is a vertical board with pegs that a contestant drops a disc down. The disc bounces off the pegs and lands in a slot at the bottom. The slots have different values and the contestant wins the value of the slot the disc lands in.

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I just loved this mental model. Each peg in the board is an fork in the code and a different path can be taken from that point on. It's basically an execution tree but with a fun visual that's easy to explain to people.

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flowchart TB
A --> B & C
B --> D & E
C --> F & G

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