Really liked that concept - the time factor adds to the challenge!

I just played my first daily quiz. It's a great addition to the site. I don't make it over to Quizzyland as much as I used to now that I am a forum junkie , but I will be going to Quizzyland more often now to play the daily quiz.

Glad you do Hopefully cheaters wont render the statistics entirely pointless.

Terry

Cheaters never prosper anyway.

I live in California. At what time will the new quiz be up for me?

Oh, by the way, it says experimental, so I guess you want some feedback about it. I give it 2 thumbs up.

Fun! Must be lots of work for you though. Keep it if possible.

I just did the update manually, to make sure that the system was working as designed. Friday's game is up! (and I must say, it picked good questions!).

I have set a scheduled process to do the maintenance from now on at midnight EST. That is 9 PM Pacific time.

Terry

Am I missing where to click to get back to your member page, or possibly get to anywhere else without having to keeping hitting the back button on my computer? Other than that, I love it!

I was cracking up, I did the quiz, had one of my own questions in there pop up, but as I've never done the multiplayer thing I guess they do from time to time.

Well, it sure inspires me to edit really strictly now!

World's cat works well in that format though.

What a great addition Terry.. lots of fun.. But can you ban Ozz by any chance? He must have the reflexes of a elephant and the mind of a steel trap... no wait, that's the mind of a steel elephant and the reflexes.... Oh, never mind.

I like it! And the fact that the answers don't come out until the next day means that cheats can't prosper. (unless they are really desperate!)
Nice one, Terry.

LOL, Bertho! I had a quite a few lucky guesses in there; I do not know one word in Portuguese, and am not much better in French

I was quite surprised to see my score at the end (I would have been happy with 12 or 13 correct).

I love it!

Great idea - I love it too!
Now if I could just be a little quicker AND know the answers..........

Great fun ...

(I agree Blinkybill, a bit more speed and a lot more knowledge would be useful )

Oh Yessss!! I really like it . I scored 15 which isn't bad is it?
A thumbs up from me

I like it! I feel like I'm on a game show when I play! lol
Could you put a link either to the homepage or to the members page?

grin, glad you like it! Never fret, those of you who know little. "For Children" will be chosen in due course!

Terry

Terry- just out of curiosity, will you be factoring a "time factor" into the scoring? I see one high score right now where the person took enough time (over 15 minutes) that they probably were looking up the answers! Not a big deal, as this is for fun, but it might be a nice touch.

Hey, Quizzyland oldsters, how many of you remember the days when all quiztaking was timed?

Maybe I got to play the "children's" category! Might get better scores there!
now that we are here, I wanted to know if all the quizzes will be assorted or will there will be a whole quiz dedicated to a particular section?
Ozz - lend me your lucky charm for a few days - need to give it to the Indian Cricket team . Please.....

Actually, Ive been trying to come up with a reasonable way to factor in times to scores. Can anyone come up with a reasonable algorithm?

ex. what is better:
19/20 in 400 seconds or
16/20 in 100 seconds or
15/20 in 70 seconds ?

I simply cant seem to work out a reasonable way to combine time and score to create a "score" value. Suggestions welcome!

Terry

Wow! I did horrible! Oh well, I really like it though. I hope it stays.

Terry...how about for every additional 60 or 100 seconds a point is removed? Maybe you can experiment.

Also, how about some quizzes that go by specific sub-categories. For the world category I would like to have seen the language questions removed and added as their own quiz, which would be more balanced for fans of languages throughout the world. Other good sub-category possibilities would be art, the various science sub-cats, literature before 1900, etc. One other point of consideration in this regard...I think we should try to avoid as much as possible a biased towards questions based solely on U.S. pop culture. How this would be done? I don't know...

I think Im going to do:

score = (questions correct * 100) - (total time taken * 2)

so 20/20 in 500 seconds (looking up most answers) gives a score of 2000 - 1000 = 1000

a 20/20 in 150 seconds (reasonable time) gives a score of 2000 - 300 = 1700

a 18/20 in 150 seconds gives 1800 - 300 = 1500.

So an 18/20 done fast beats a 20/20 done slow.

Jazz - you forgot sports, chuck sports - you forgot CRICKET !
Actually I don't mind any questions as long as there are NOT
animals, literature, world, seasonal, general, movies, sports, ART, science, Brainteasers, enterainment...... (Now what did I forget?)