One type of Daily Challenge includes this text:

Point scramble! Use Quiz Game mode to score 2492 points playing quizzes in each of the following categories...
...* Quiz Game Mode: This challenge requires that you play a quiz or quizzes using our special "Quiz Game" flash mode. ... To use "Quiz Game Mode", click on any FunTrivia player quiz and look for the link "Play: Quiz Game". Some quizzes do not support this mode, so you may have to search around a bit for eligible quizzes!

Players may be searching for a long time for the link "Play: Quiz Game" since it seems to have been renamed as "Play as a Timed Quiz". A bit confusing for new members - maybe some housekeeping is in order

Also, it should stay "Play as an HTML Quiz" rather than "Play as a HTML Quiz" to be grammatical. Say it out loud, you'll see what I mean; it's like "an apple" rather than "a apple".

H is a consonant. Yes, it has a sound like a vowel .... Sometimes. It all depends on the person pronounces H as a stand alone sound. There is no hard and fast rule about having an instead a in front of a stand alone H. It's a personal preference which to use an or a.

I've had this debate here. If you read out the words that HTML stand for "HyperText Mark-Up Language", it is obvious that "a" should be used. In my dialect, if you read out the initials themselves, then I say "an". For that reason, whenever I see "a HC Winner", I cringe, because I am not mentally reading it as "a Hardcore Winner" but by saying the letters in my head.

But, the powers that be have already said that they will leave the "a" before any abbreviation beginning with H, so read it as you must in your head for it to sound right.

The usage of "a" and "an" is determined by the initial consonantal or vocalic sound, not the classification of the grapheme (the written letter). For example, if you don't pronounce the 'h' in "herb", then you must say "an herb" to comply with correct English usage, even though the grapheme 'h' is regarded as a consonant.

You say "a unicorn" not "an unicorn" even though the letter 'u' is a vowel because it is pronounced "yoo-ni-corn".

For acronyms, you go with how the acronym is pronounced, just as you do with any other word. You wouldn't read HTML as "HyperText Mark-Up Language" any more than you read any other acronym like that. You would say, when you encounter it, something like, "That's an aitch-tee-em-ell document." Just as when you see "He works for the FBI", you would read it aloud as, "He works for the eff-bee-eye".

It is not a personal preference any more than saying "a apple" or "an goose" or "Me like dogs" is a personal preference.

Of course, in some parts of the world they say "haitch" for the letter H.

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Yep, I need to change that text.

Both the one for HTML and the one for HC?

Hope so!!

Sue

Right, that is why I was saying depending on whether you read the abbreviations as full words (HTML as Hyper Text Mark-Up Language) or just a string of letters H - T - M - L, you would use the "a" or "an" article.

I tend to read them as individual letters when they are expressed as an abbreviation, which is why reading "a HC Winner" grates on my nerves. Of course, if you read that as "a HardCore Winner" it is legit.

I was never suggesting that this is optional or a matter pf preference. I was explaining the argument as it went down the last time it came up!

Sue

Why would you say "a apple" in the first place? Haven't you been hearing "There's an app for that" for the last few years? Well, "app" is the first syllable of apple so it's an apple. I've never heard anyone saying "a apple". It's always been "an apple".


Yes, I know this has moved the discussion to possibly belonging to another Forum.

My point was that that "a apple" and "an goose" and "Me like dogs" are incorrect. And so is "Play as a HTML quiz". But since Terry has made the change to "an HTML quiz" the question is moot. Cheers one and all.

Not exactly moot yet, as the same applies to "a HC Champ" in the listings for the top 100 in the Global Challenge.

I would include a screenshot, but I don't seem to know how.

Trying one thing, just in case it works: (the link does take you to the page but doesn't display here)

[img:center]http://www.funtrivia.com/minigame/tophc.cfm[/img]

Thanks,

Sue

Has this been addressed before? Seems to me it may have been but I can't find it.

For a challenge yesterday, I had to beat 980 in the Easy Game. That means playing in less than 20 seconds. So my score of 19.8 gets rounded up to 980 but technically I beat the 980 with a lower time. Since the game is scored to the hundredths of seconds, shouldn't that qualify for a win?

I think you would have to score 981 to complete the challenge.

Beat means "greater than"

I would have 980.2 if the challenge was scored in the same way as the game.

Sort of interesting ... in this hour's scores I found one person who had 9 right in 100.51 seconds. The game rounded it up to 101 seconds, for a score of 799. Another person hit the half-second mark exactly, with eight right in 117.5 seconds. This also was rounded up (to 118 seconds), for a score of 682. And a third person got eight right in 82.49 seconds (.01 under the half-second mark), and was scored 718, so from that we know the time was rounded down.

So if your goal was to beat (not match) 980, then a perfect ten in 19.0 to 19.49 seconds would round up to a 981, while doing it in 19.5 to 20.49 seconds would get you a 980.

Who do you have to bribe to get an Epic challenge?
I bought 14 additional challenges today and got none, the last attempt I think I tried 10 and got none.
I've completed over 1500 challenges and only managed 4 Epics, I win the lottery more often, really (not jackpots unfortunately).
I know it's supposed to be rare but a couple more would be nice.

I am sorry you have had rotten luck drawing epics.


This is mostly just speculation backed up by limited observation collected from several players but I strongly suspect there is no increased chance of drawing an epic on successive purchases made on a single day.

Obviously, you have higher likelyhood of getting one just from having multiple tries at it.

What I mean is, I think despite rumors to the contrary. Lets say on your first purchased challenge of the day you have a 3% chance of drawing an epic (don't know the actual odds, I just like having a real number to point at instead of x). On your 2nd purchase of the day...you still have the same 3% chance...on your 10th, 14th, 70th....the same 3% chance each.

The perception got out there, probably either through the ramping cost making the later picks seem more valuable...or just by people frequently drawing epics when going for the ten in one day badgelet, or maybe a bit of both, that the odds get better as you dig deeper into your credit cache, but I think all it does is eat up credits faster over the long run.

Regarding the Daily Challenges, I don't think this is an issue, but I'm not sure if it can be an issue. If someone has 5 submitted trivia questions (not yet accepted/rejected by the editor) can they still get the "submit a question to our funtrivia pool" challenge?

It would just be unfortunate to have the challenge and then be ineligible to complete it because you submitted 5 questions (on a previous day or two) and can't submit any further questions until the previous ones are reviewed.

The challenge assignment can't detect whether you already have five questions pending, so you could get an assignment to write one even if you're already maxed out.

We recommend that, when writing a lot of single questions, you always spread them out across several categories so that you have a good chance some of them will get approved during each day.

If you do have a challenge that requires you to write questions and you really NEED to complete it (e.g. because you are facing a certain epic and can't switch out the question writing task), you could always politely contact an editor in a category or two that you have pending questions in and see if they can prioritize you. Usually, our editors are very accommodating to requests of this kind in such an exceptional situation.

My Difficult Daily Challenge today is playing the Expert Game against another opponent.

We both played the Music Celebs Mixed topic. He scored 1400 and I scored 1440. His score is reflected on the Daily Challenge page but mine isn't.

Has this ever happened to anyone else?

Did you play the topic before the challenge was allocated? It only counts games played after the challenge is issued.

Is anyone even close to the Daily Dynast badge?
What about having a leaderboard to see where people stand?