Does anyone know what the time-lapse is between having a question accepted in the Question Quest and that question getting played?

The reason I ask is that the first two of my six most recently accepted questions were accepted at the beginning of December and they have not yet been played.

I had the impression that the turn-round time was around a couple of weeks.

Seems to be more like two months just now, the way mine are going. I believe that category might have something to do with it, too - questions in categories with lots of accepted questions might take longer to go live.

Yep. It's four weeks at the very least, mine have been more like six weeks lately.

At one point several months ago it seemed like we were always on a downward slope with QQ submissions going online; the numbers waiting just kept getting lower and lower.
Now, QQs do have to wait longer, but they're also online longer and producing better results. More players = more ratings = more possibilities of percentages.

Methinks it's still being fine-tuned.

My oldest one has been waiting just a little longer than six weeks now. Hopefully it will be played soon!

Thanks for that information, kyle and everyone! I had thought that my lonely little questions had fallen foul of the occasional eddies in the FT continuum, but apparently not.

As always, patience, grasshopper...

I've got one from Dec 8, if that makes you feel any better.

My longest queued one is also from 8 December. The one I had accepted on 29 November went live at the end of last week so pretty much two months. Even knowing it takes that long doesn't stop me checking daily......

Yes, my two are from 2nd and 8th of December. Maybe we'll all go live next week.

With my player hat on, it does seem like a ridiculously long wait for a question to be played. However, with my editor hat on, I'm glad for the long wait. There have been some questions that I've encountered while playing the New Question Game that I remember putting online but, since it's been so long and I've seen umpty-odd questions in between, I'll usually have forgotten the correct answer by the time I see it again. It's more fair (and more fun), especially in the categories where there are only one or two editors and between them they'll have seen most of the questions going online.

That happens to me too, with the questions I've written! Sometimes the delay shows me that one that I thought was simple at the time, really isn't.

So this is why the NQG area has been smelling musty lately. The Qs have to get out there before the language changes and leaves them with meaning only to etymologists (That's not the insect word, right?).

Right, not the insect word. One way to recall is that insect and the insect word both have an "n".

What a useful little mnemonic. I'm always getting those two mixed up.

And Etymology is the word for No-n words, knowin' words.