First example:

In my family, we always played that no foreign words were acceptable, but the official rules do let you play some foreign words. What two letter word, German for yes, is acceptable?

Correct Answer: Ja - You were correct. (71% got it correct )

This is an acceptable word (and lets you score with a 'j'), although I'm sure my mother would never have allowed it! Oui is French and Da is Russian for yes. Yu is apparently also valid.

Second example:

The "power" letters are considerably harder to play in the endgame because the board is so crowded, but you can still play all of these EXCEPT which one?

Correct Answer: JA - You were incorrect (48% got it correct )

"Ja" is German for "yes," but has no meaning in English. A "jo" is a sweetheart, "za" is slang for pizza, and "qi" is the Chinese equivalent of the Japanese "ki." These words can be lifesavers if you happen to draw a J, Q or Z late in the game.



If the game is impossible, I don't want to play.

I don't understand your point, except that one of those is clearly wrong, probably because the rules about acceptable words changed (as they do, regularly). There is a similar issue with questions about the Pharaoh hound, and the origin of cats, both of which have changed within the last ten years. (And probably a lot more - I think we have found all the Libya's flag questions, but there could still be one hiding out there. Harper Lee's second book and the creation of South Sudan are only two of the other examples I can think of off the top of my head.) When you get a question that was correct when written, but is not any longer, send a correction on it.

If the two questions came from the same quiz, and not in a game that drew information from multiple quizzes, then that is a different problem. Again, a correction sent when you come across it in play will get it looked at by an editor - posting here cannot get that result, unless an editor happens to have a couple of hours of free time with nothing better to do than search through all the possible quizzes from which the questions might have come.

"I don't understand your point, except that one of those is clearly wrong".
That was my point.

So did you submit a correction note about it? Posting a complaint here can't fix it; alerting the editors to the exact questions that need attention by submitting a correction note can get it fixed. It may be that one of the questions used a different dictionary (different countries actually have different acceptable word lists, but there is an international one out there somewhere), or that they were written based on different editions of the dictionary. Determining the best way to fix this contradictory information would require access to both quizzes in their entirety (which I cannot do, as they are not in one where I edit). Possibly the introductions make it clear, but not the individual questions. There are several ways in which these issues can be resolved, but the first step is identifying the exact questions. That doesn't mean copying the question here, it means submitting a correction note, which flags the original quiz from which it came as needing attention.

"Determining the best way to fix this contradictory information would require access to both quizzes in their entirety (which I cannot do, as they are not in one where I edit)."

Who does have such access?

An editor in that category (probably Hobbies, where Scrabble quizzes are located, but it is possible that one of the questions was in a General Knowledge quiz), who will know which quizzes to look at when you submit a correction note after playing the question. If you just ask to have it fixed, they have to actually go through every quiz in the category to find where your question came from. If you have the time, you could go through the Scrabble quizzes and play them all until you locate the two questions, and submit corrections on them. It's much easier to just submit the question after playing the game - I believe that every game has that facility available, although it is trickier for Brain Twist quizzes.

This problem cropped up in the Scrabble topic of the day in Duel?

I had to submit correction notices for two of my questions in that duel because they came from a quiz where you would need to see all of the questions in order to be able to answer them. In Other words, unsuitable questions for an hourly or daily game.

So it would appear that this topic may not be very suitable for future appearances until it has had some significant attention to get rid of inappropriate questions.

I don't think I'm going to play the topic of the day today.