Cool, my idea was used! I'll do my best to test it!

I am still a fair few away from getting the twenty-twenty-twenty badge, but I can imagine getting as the difficult one on the day " earn a fun trivia badge".

I like salami's idea a lot, and the ones that have been added/ are being tested.

What about a medium/difficult challenge with a poem or anagram in which you need to decipher a category or subcategory, then play a quiz in it

or:

Difficult:

Play a quiz in x categories in x order scoring x in each(e.g. Animals, then People, then Video Games)

I like a scrambled category idea. Maybe easy to implement.

You must play a quiz and score x correct in a certain subcategory in x main category. But the subcategory appears as a string of letters! Unscramble to reveal your mystery category!

I like it. :-)

What do you mean? One can cheat on any of the games, really.

While we're at it, is it possible to add something so that players can see other people's progress in the Daily Challenges? Like when we were testing, we could see what was happening (except for Wes near the end...I'd have braved the Wespires and Weswolves but we weren't allowed to ). I was thinking of something similar, maybe just for players on a person's friends list. Is this possible? I'd really like to see it.

You can add anyone to your friends list though...they don't even have to know they're on it if you uncheck the box that shows up when you want to add them. There'd have to be some kind of approval system...

I do dearly miss our shared pages though. It was really nice to see how everyone else was doing, and to see challenges they were getting that I didn't get a chance to play myself.

Well, that's a different issue. What I meant was that a player could see the progress of the players on his/her profile (no point in seeing the whole site's progress).

What you're saying is that people's Daily Challenges could be watched without them knowing...which isn't a problem unless they DON'T want to be seen. In which case forget this idea. I still think it's a good one, though.

Or, at the very least, a "most challenges completed" list for easy, medium, hard, epic, and total.

Eek - At the very least??! But what other information would you require?

I really like that these are personal challenges, not related to anyone else's progress, no race, no list, just between me and my quizGod. For some reason, I think lists would spoil that.

Nothing to stop a forum/messageboard thread where people just tell each other how many challenges they've finished. Don't know why a list would add any value at all, though, and for me it would take away some of the USP value.




I suppose so.
Quiz of the Hour offers more chances maybe. I don't know, lol!

I'd like to see it within teams.

I don't want my team to know... I like to sneak up on them.

You mean you're not at the head of the herd ?!

Tizz, we keep her locked in a corner with chains. She doesn't even get the greenest grass in to graze.

I'm calling the RSPCA!

hmm, often it's the opposite with one-of-a-kind wabbits. Usually, you unique on THEM lol

The elders of the Funtrivia Account Reporting Team (Old FARTs) strongly oppose the establishment of any revelation of challenge progress outside the individual's challenge page itself. Afterall, doesn't going there to see things enter the player into some of the challenges? If status was listed elsewhere there would be fewer participants, a lose-lose proposition.

Being entered into challenges doesn't mean you need to complete them. You don't lose anything by starting them.

What I said was (deciphered) that if some go elsewhere to see their challenge status, there will be fewer entering the challenge playing list. Nothing to do with the non-players, everything to do with the entered players.

I don't understand what you're talking about. Why would less people go to the challenges list? That's the only way to view what your Daily Challenges are...

I'm really confused as well-- why would this have any effect? Having tallies listed in your profile would only allow other people to see your progress. It won't change whether or not people will play the challenges.



I also don't get why 'entered players' has any effect on anything. Like I said, just because you entered doesn't mean you have to complete the challenges at all. It has no effect on anything except (maybe) twin and nemesis challenges which, if you don't participate, can still be won by your twin/adversary.

How about using the Triathlon for some challenges.

Score a certain amount of Tri Points in a FT day. So for example ,easy get 5 points, medium score 25 points and hard score 50 points.

In one Triathlon set score a set amount points, 1 for easy, 11 for medium and 21 for hard.

To those who are in a fog:
People have proposed having the challenge status listed in a table somewhere or on their profile pages. I don't think either of those places would qualify as the challenge page and would therefore not trigger entry into the challenges. If you put them elsewhere and had an entry autolinked to the challenge, you'd have people who are looking for their total brains number being then entered into the challenges with no intention of participating.


Now I'm confused. "No effect except" which is an effect. You cannot prove a statement by merely stating its opposite doesn't exist and condition that with the existence of said opposite.

It is used in some challenges, the first time I got one I had to figure out what the heck a FunTrivia Triathlon was.

The point is that it doesn't matter. Even in two person games like Nemesis/Twin/Duel, all three games can be won by one person. Only one person is actually needed to win Twin, even though two scores are compared. In Twin, for example, one partner can score 0, and the other can score 2500/5000/10000 and still win it for both people. It wouldn't make any difference whether the second person played at all after accessing the page. Whether someone accidentally clicks the challenges or intentionally clicks them has no bearing on any part of the game. I'm sure there are a lot of people now who click the link on the homepage out of pure curiosity and then don't bother with playing any of the challenges that are generated.

Therefore, with no one playing opposite, the "challenge" disappears.

Some are easy and some are not. It's the luck of the draw, really. It's like the easy challenge that asks you to bank 10 questions in the Quick Quiz. That's no challenge at all for me. It takes less than 2 minutes for me to accomplish, even with guessing on ones I don't already know the answer to.

I get that.



I don't get this.

The table/status listing would simply tell how many challenges people have finished; it doesn't need to trigger anything. What does brains have anything to do with this? Why does it matter if they have no intent on participating? Like I've said more than once now, even if you click into the challenge pages, you aren't forced to complete them. Earlier, you said it was a lose-lose situation; I replied that there's no losing; it makes it sound like trying the challenges is a bad thing. This is what I meant by "It has no effect on anything except (maybe) twin and nemesis challenges"; registering for your daily challenges won't hurt other peoples' chances and you won't be penalized whatsoever. The only challenges you have influence in (if you want to) would be Twin and Nemesis, and even if you don't do anything about them, the other participant can still complete them.



If I said 'there is nothing in the fridge except a banana', one should understand that the banana is the only exception to the fact that nothing is in the fridge, even if it's not grammatically-sound. (There's no easy way to explain this without tearing apart the parts of the sentence, so I won't. Way too much of an aside.)

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And now back to our regularly scheduled programming for ideas for new challenges.

The Triathlon is in there in some capacity-- I've done at least one challenge that has needed those particular hourlies.

It depends on what you think is a challenge. What's difficult for one person is easy for another (and vice versa). For some, point precision is a difficult feat.

It doesn't literally disappear-- you still have to complete it.

Some people don't show for their Knockout game-- doesn't mean you don't still have to play to get your points.

The problem I see with having to score Tri Points for a challenge is that people in the "Amateur" division, like myself, aren't even eligible to earn Tri Points, no matter how well they score. The challenge I've seen that deals with the Triathlon asks you to score in a certain percentage of your division, which means it is available for all players to attempt.