Gil_Galad, there's definitely at least one challenge to find those quizzes and rate them, but I guess it might be limited to Gold Members because of the rating.

There is one that states something like "Play 5 quizzes that have been on-line for over a month and has fewer than 50 ratings" but that doesn't relate to how many quizzes are in a particular sub-category. That's the only challenge I know of that is close to what you are describing.

Share a story? Okay. I love that. But where?

If you are referring to the challenge to share a story, go to the Chatboards, select General, and the look for the Official Story Thread (it is near the top). Part of the fun of challenges is finding some of the corners of the site you never even knew existed!

Mark the quizzes played in the last 30 days it's a very nice idea(A green smooth or any mark)

I have my internet browser set up to use a different colour for the games I've played within the last 30 days. It's quite easy to do this: just alter the number of days your internet history is conserved, and set it on 30.

Ooh, I had never thought of that, Jan! Thanks for the info!

The "Play Your Least Played Categories" Challenge
(for Gold Members only)

Player is given the three categories in which s/he has played the fewest number of quizzes. Player must play 2 quizzes in each category and get 4 answers correctly in each.

Difficult

Note: Difficulty may be adjusted by varying number of quizzes per category and/or number of questions per quiz correct.

You have already suggested this more than once. Terry will see it. There's no real need for you to post in multiple times, unless you forgot you already suggested it.

Set up some quizzes with deliberate errors, and the challenge is to play the quiz and send a "correct" correction note.

I don't think the editors would want people to play quizzes with errors that they know are there...also, I pity the poor author who is going to be inundated with a ton of correction notes of which some, like it or not, are probably going to be wrong.

Since challenges have to be completed within a day, something like this would have to credit achievement when the correction note was sent, even if it wasn't a valid correction, because an editor might not have time to do anything about it for a day or two. And we certainly don't want to be inundated with lots of quickly-sent corrections when there are enough real errors that need correction to keep us busy. Nor do we want to have quizzes with intentional errors hanging around the place!

edited to fix typo

Please read my suggestions more carefully.

My earlier suggestion was to play your WORST category, based on percentage correct. This challenge is based on number of quizzes you have played in a particular category. The two are not the same at all. For example, my worst category may be Sports, but my least-played category is Video Games.

Cheers!

My two least played categories are Animals and Video Games (Animals the least of those two, I believe). I usually score 0-2 in those categories unless my guessing is more accurate. So, I rarely go to those sections.

I think it's a good idea. Especially since it would get those of us who stay away from such categories to participate more fully in them.

-Nam

One idea for daily challenges, (if it has not already been suggested) is using the basic idea as the psychic hunt mini badge. To use one or more words from the crystal ball game, and completing a quiz with that word in the quiz title. The crystal ball game shows the last ten words giving a selection. It would be possible to adjust difficulty by adjusting; number of titles, number of crystal ball words needed to be used, percentage correct answers required, number of questions in quiz, some number of categories, or just specified category. These could all be altered to match skill level or to give variety.

I like this idea, as I enjoy the challenge of finding the right quizzes to play.

Since most of the daily games feature as a challenge, for gold members one on the World Game, Pot of Gold and perhaps even the Gold Member Madness games would nicely complete the set. If they already exist, I don't think I've ever had them.

I had a "Beat a previous score" Medium challenge for both World Game and Pot of Gold. For World Game, I have also had a "Play it. Score doesn't matter" Easy challenge. Even though I haven't had an equivalent for Pot of Gold, that doesn't mean it isn't there.

Idea for a challenge (or a badge/let):

There are five global divisons as noted in the sidebar on the front page:

Quizzes - Global
USA Quizzes
Canada
United Kingdom
Australia
Europe


And each of them are divided into categories.



So a challenge could be to choose a global division and play a certain number of quizzes in one/several/or each category. Amount would indicate level of difficulty of challenge. Divison & categories would be prescribed.


A badge/let challenge could be to play any one (or 5 or more etc!) quiz in each category in each global divison.


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There's also the Quiz Buffet http://www.funtrivia.com/quizmash.cfm that could be used for a challenge - get at least X questions correct on X number of quizzes in X different categories from the buffet menu - within the same hour?

Very bad idea as this would tie up one of your challenges for 14 days, so it would make it impossible to buy a challenge if you got a Nemesis challenge.

Starlord - what you've said about buying challenges isn't really a factor. It's perfectly possible for you to, due to bad luck, end up not being able to buy a challenge through no fault of your own (or sometimes due to your own faults - scoring too low on a daily game, for example).

But I don't really like the idea. Some people don't want to write quizzes, and for them, the challenges to enter 2/3 single questions in different categories are more than enough.

It would also encourage people to rush into making quizzes instead of taking their time and writing to the best of their ability.

There's also the problem of people not having access to the internet for 14 days. Let's say someone is going on holiday for a month in 3 days. They sign on to FT, go to their challenges and oh no! They've got this challenge! They'd either have to write it in 3 days (linking back to the rushing factor) or just give up.

However, I think the biggest factor is that it's too complicated and it just won't work. If you got it as a difficult challenge, would it be worth 42 points (3 points per day for 14 days)? Would it be 3 points? Somewhere in the middle? Is it even possible to code it so a challenge stays on your page for 2 weeks?

And it ruins the whole point of DAILY challenges. It's supposed to be something you do in a single day, something fairly short (unless you get an epic) and something new every 24 hours.

So, sorry, but I don't think that's going to work.

This is why it was already decided against.

For those looking for time-pressures for writing quizzes, we periodically have these sorts of challenges in the Author's Lounge.

What about playing a list of quizzes whose title comes from the Authors' Challenge list? (Ranking depends on the number of quizzes.)
Do we have any challenges relating to that? I know there was discussion a while back about adding a challenge (persumably Easy) where the person had to suggest a title, but I don't know if it actually became a challenge. If not, this might be a good way to get newcomers familiar with that area of the site. If so, then it can be another challenge that relates to Authors' Challenge.

It was implemented, someone complained that they couldn't do it - suggesting Author Challenges is a privilege given only to someone who's written over 10 quizzes, and it was removed.

I wonder if it's possible to change it so that it would only be offered to people who have already written over 10 quizzes (like how the Global Challenge ones aren't offered when the Global Challenge is available or how the "Earn a badge or mini-badge" isn't offered to people over a certain level).
Either way, I still offer my original suggestion involving playing quizzes with Authors' Challenge titles.

Today I got the yellow flag Variety III for a second time, can I suggest a Gold Member perk of being able to switch out a triple flag if you already have it, for another random EPIC challenge.

It'd be interesting if you could switch out Epics by spending a number of challenge points (say 30).

That would be a neat twist, if the Epic went into the list of things you could switch out. Take your chances, you might get something worse, but once it's done, you have to live with it.

That sounds like a great idea.

I was thinking, if it did get implemented where we could buy epics, the number of credits would be much higher, like 100. (I know 30 was only a suggestion, but, at least in my mind, it's still too low.)