FunTrivia Help Center
 I want to play quizzes but got locked out from submitting them. Help?
Unfortunately the actions of some people who would want to mass download questions force us to have automated security measures in place. If these algorithms detect patterns that look like a mass download instead of legit play, they will trigger a temporary lockout, usually for a day. Like any other automated detection, this does occasionally yield false positives.
This can have multiple reasons:
- You may actually have submitted many quizzes in very quick succession, maybe with very low scores (guessing) or leaving many questions blank. Avoid doing so in the future - if you want to play a category for one of the 24 hours badgelets, make sure you pick topics you know instead of trying to make the number simply by mass submitting.
- A common reason for triggering a lockout is filling out many quizzes at once and then submitting them all at once. Submit each quiz right after playing. (You can still preload pages - open 10 or 20 quizzes in tabs and then play them one by one. Just then play the first, submit it, close the tab, start the next, etc.)
- You might have a malfunctioning software or browser setting that loads pages in the background to make better use of a connection. Sometimes these programs run amok and actually submit. If you get this after opening a category page, scavenger or quiz list but before playing, you might want to investigate in that direction (you can also avoid getting scored zeroes you never played that way!)
- You might be sharing the connection with someone who triggered the error or you may have inherited an IP that was previously used for suspicious play. In that case it wasn't anything you did - just bad luck.
If you did get affected, we unfortunately cannot reset the block. If you need those quizzes to meet a goal you have worked towards, you can work around it by playing in interactive mode (timed or untimed) - those are not blocked. Otherwise, it's best to just wait out the block until it resolves - and if you can identify something you might have done to trigger it, try to avoid it next time!
The block also does not affect hourly and daily games, so you can still play those.
Sorry if you did falsely get hit - thank those who make such measures necessary in the first place :(
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