That's what I thought but I seem to recall it being mentioned somewhere (I think on the testing thread, but it might be here) that if you were at exactly 50% on a challenge that required you to be in the top 50% it wouldn't count (or maybe that's changed since then).

The percentages are for a different type of challenge, and I do remember we had a discussion of something similar to that situation over in the testing thread. As I recall, though, the question was whether finishing, say, 8 out of 15, would count for the challenge, because it's the middle score, but it's technically not at the 50% mark...But it is definitely the case that, when a number is given as a target score (or target percentage) for a challenge, any score that is that number exactly or any number higher (or of a smaller/higher percentage) counts for a completion.

My medium challenge is

So far, so good, but it's showing credit for this quiz, which has a difficulty rating of easy. It looks like either the text or the code to check difficulty rating needs some help. Not that I mind having credit...

Today I was asked to "Play top rated quiz X and get at least 7/10 questions correct."

It was ranked in the 90k range. In the nicest possible way, I don't think that counts as a top rated quiz. Just thought I'd mention incase the selection algorithm messed up or something. If it was intended, nevermind.

Well, I just did it in the Impossible game, and I'm so so relieved! I can confirm it does count an exact score.

How do I find quizzes by specific authors?

Go to "My Profile". Below your avatar is a place to type in the name of anybody on FunTrivia. Scroll down until you see the list of their quizzes. There might be another way, but that is the only way I know of finding authors.

On the home page, in the center, you see 'New Quizzes'. There are several tabs. Click on the one at the far right, labeled 'Find'.

In the title bar drop down menu under Quizzes is an entry called "Search". A pop to the side menu then will provide input windows for Topic or Author to search on.

Alternatively you could go to their profile and scroll through their quiz list from there.

Unless that author was someone like Kyle or Nightmare...then you could use a search engine like Google, I suppose.

Most challenges asking for playing a quiz by a specific author, don't specify which one you should try out. So Mariamir, you won't have to resort to media outside of FunTrivia - unless you happen to play each and every new quiz by Kyle or by Nightmare as soon as it gets on line...

Minor typographical issue...
Challenge text reads, "Participate in 6 different types of hourly games today, scoring at least 5 correct in each game. Quiz of the hour counts as one." The word "hour" should be capitalized.

Medium challenge I have today is to play 6 quizzes with 3 letters "R" in their title, scoring at least 5 correct. I did receive credit for 2 I've played however have played a few more with 3 r's, scored more than 5 correct, but am not beong credited.
They are not quizzes I've ever played before.
Thanks.
Nevermind, this time I really figured it out! Each quiz needs to be in a different sub-category, I was playing them all in Geography.
Sorry to have not noted the qualifier earlier..

As an Easy Challenge today I had


Being aware of the situation mentioned just a few posts ago, that the challenge will be specific if a player authored quiz is the object of the challenge, I assumed that when it said ANY Animal quiz (note no size qualifier) that a Newest Quizbot assembled Animals Quiz would meet the stated requirement. I took the current Animal Mix Quiz and got 10/10 but no challenge credit.

Although the challenge could probably be less vague, it's referring to a quiz in the 'Animals' category-- the quizbot quizzes can not be found there so they will not count.

It should be clarified because it says any quiz, not any player authored quiz nor NOT any quizbot quiz. A quizbot quiz is a quiz and meets the definition of any. So many other ambiguous challenges have been cleared up to delineate the exact place to seek the challenge and this should be clarified too.
And less vague means still vague but not so much. This thread is for highlighting verbage that is vague and needs clarifying.

Here's what may be the reason. Back last month I posted here about playing a 'Tough' quiz required as part of my Daily Challenge. I scored 10/10 which immediately downrated it to 'Average' and so I didn't get the Daily Challenge credit. Terry tweaked the difficulty bands just a fraction after that to reduce the risk of it happening again.

He said:

"Wow, talk about unintended consequences

Ok, I've changed it to give difficulty ratings a bit of a wiggle room. So, if the difficulty rating is a LITTLE easier than what you're asked to do, it will still give you credit. That should fix that issue!"

Anytime I've gotten a challenge to play a quiz by a specific author, it specified which one. For example, one of my Easy challenges was "Play a quiz authored by reeshy and score 4 questions correct".

Doesn't the name reeshy act as a link to their profile page and quizzes in that case?

I think that's what buddy was trying to say mehaul : )

Oh, gosh, that's exciting and unexpected. :P

Mixed quizzes don't count they have to be authored by a single author.

Where does it say that in the challenge? It says ANY quiz period
No others use the term ANY that I have run into. Why fight this? All that needs to be done is to add verbage that the challenge is for player authored quizzes or that quizbot ones are inelligible just like has been done by Terry for other challenges. Mixed quizzes do count in some cases. This is, as I said vague language that needs to be clarified like the opening post of the thread requests reporting of.
The way the challenge reads now means that other Animal quizzes should qualify too, like the Animals category in the Global Challenge (Note, that's a mixed quiz)

It doesn't and it doesn't. It says "any quiz in the Animals category". As I've already said, those mixed quizzes can not specifically be found in the Animals category; this extends to the GC, or an all-Animals based Daily Quiz, or a Point Tree Animal quiz, or any other random Animals quizzes without a listing in our Animals directory. The Animals category can be found on the left sidebar at the top of the categories listing. The link is http://www.funtrivia.com/ql.cfm?cat=1



They're in there-- I got an any in my difficult challenge today.



We aren't? :s

When I recommended changing it you said that my verbage wasn't precise enough. I was merely telling you that what you were doing wouldn't count-- if you want to get credit for your challenge in the meantime, you'll need to follow the steps we've been listing.

Unless your challenges say otherwise, assume they're referring to the quizzes in the directory. They are the bulk of the site and should be a fall-back regardless.

I fail to see the word category in that challenge. And the issue was passed but brought up again by someone else. You both are wrong. It says

ANY ANIMAL QUIZ period

copied and pasted without change. The word Any neans quizbot, global, player author mixed and unmixed. ANY. The word Category is not used at all in the language of the challenge. Where did you come up with that?

AND. I had my challenge complete by going to an Animal quiz from elsewhere before I posted here. I didn't post to vent a feeling of being cheated. As my post says I followed the directions of the thread's first post and reported vague wording in a challenge. I just think the challenge needs to be reworded. I never saw any wording in your post sugesting any rewording. Please point that out to me so I can apologize for missing it.

I would argue that any quiz in the animals CATEGORY is considered a quiz, true...

But that anything in the global, as well as quizbot generated quizzes, are considered GAMES, not quizzes.

A quiz is a player-created 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25 question item that is categorized into a category and sub-category. A quiz will last forever, unless it needs to be taken offline to edit.

These others, however, do not last. They are temporary "games" to fill the void if no new "quizzes" have gone online. They will disappear in only a few hours, and never be seen again, making it a "game", and not so much a constant "quiz" that remains forever.

This would mean there is nothing wrong with the statement "any animals quiz", because, by definition, the quizzes are those in the animal category, and all others are not technically "quizzes".

But, perhaps, I'm dissecting this far beyond where it needs to be, but perhaps it has already been dissected too far.



In my opinion, anyway.

Mehaul, you're right-- it didn't say category.

Only trying to help you get your challenge point.



You're going to be disappointed when playing those and not getting the point then.

It's been more than just me saying that it has to be in the category to count in the meantime; Terry will fix your issue with the word 'any' later on and he'll either add a word to clarify it or he'll overhaul the entire thing to include mixed non-player-specific quizzes/GC/Point Tree/Expert categories/WTS Animals quizzes/anything else animals to make it work.

Until then, all we've been saying is despite what it says, this is how it works. Either you can view your playing the extra game as a time-sink or you can enjoy what you learned and carry on to the next possibility. You posted it here and it will be attended to (or not; I can't speak for anyone); there's no need to argue or yell about it.




I said 'the challenge could be less vague'. You said 'And less vague means still vague but not so much. This thread is for highlighting verbage that is vague and needs clarifying.'

I took that to mean my suggestion was unacceptable.

Then why did you say 'I took the current Animal Mix Quiz and got 10/10 but no challenge credit.'? If you already had a quiz from elsewhere completed, it wouldn't have mattered-- you'd have gotten the point and the challenge wouldn't have registered any later quizzes.

I think what mehaul meant was he took the quizbot quiz first, then when it didn't work went on to an Animal quiz from the Animal category. But since the quizbot's Animal quiz is a quiz about Animals, he came here to report that it didn't count. If I'm wrong do correct me, that's just my conclusion.

And while I think it's pretty clear that "Animal quiz" means "a quiz from the Animals category", the text could be revised to say so.