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| Gomez* |
Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 1:42 pm Post subject: 1 |
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Here's another from me:
Guess The Movie From The Music.
Hope you like it. As usual, any feedback is gratefully appreciated.
Cheers. |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:00 pm Post subject: 0 |
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| This one just got published |
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| Gomez* |
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:42 am Post subject: -1 |
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Cheers for the feedback guys  |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:02 am Post subject: -2 |
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Here is my latest effort
And this one is similar
OK, one more |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:31 pm Post subject: -3 |
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| Zag wrote: |
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| Who gave directions to his home as 'Second on the right and straight on til morning'? |
Shouldn't this be "second star"? |
No, that's a common mistake that I think comes from the Walt Disney animated version. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject: -4 |
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| Born in Monroeville in 1924, I authored fiction & non-fiction novels. One , became an Audrey Hepburn movie, the other has been described as 'The First True Crime Novel'. |
The comma after "one" is incorrect. Your quotes should probably be double quotes, assuming it is really a quote.
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| Which theoretical concept links the authors H.G. Wells and Ralph Ellison? |
Time travel wasn't it?
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| Robert Pinsky, Philip Levine, Norman Lovett, Louise Gluck. Who is the odd one out |
This question does nothing for me. Just by typing all their names until it accepts one, I get it right, but I still don't know why.
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| American Psycho, Money, Beloved, Brave New World. Which is the odd one out? |
ditto
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| Who gave directions to his home as 'Second on the right and straight on til morning'? |
Shouldn't this be "second star"? |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:08 pm Post subject: -5 |
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Well I only got 8 of them directly (and one of the other two because the odd-name-out was a weird choice, not because I recognised the other names.) I still don't understand the novel titles one though...
But it did feel like a decent challenge (much too long on the timer though.) |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:07 pm Post subject: -6 |
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I only got the first one, and that was after guessing Atticus first.
The "odd one out" questions don't really work since there's no penalty for a wrong answer. You can just guess each one. |
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| Gomez |
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:44 pm Post subject: -7 |
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Here's my first Sporcle. It's just a test, I only made it to learn the ropes so there's nothing particularly interesting here. It's just a really, really hard literature quiz. I'll be genuinely impressed if anyone can get all the answers. I certainly couldn't. After coming up with the questions, I had to google about half the answers myself  |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 11:07 am Post subject: -8 |
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| I liked the revised version of this, which was at least possible to do, although for me it was the classic dilemma of puzzles - the first version was next to impossible, but I found the second verging on trivially easy, although I know that's not the fault of the quiz itself, just my own reference points. |
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| jesternl |
Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 6:48 pm Post subject: -9 |
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| thanks for the feedback! |
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| Zag |
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 10:25 pm Post subject: -10 |
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| Nice! You should also allow people to type the title without the "The." i.e. typing simply "Picture of Dorian Gray" should be enough. Also, you should allow for a few really common and innocuous misspellings, like grey for gray and mocking bird for mockingbird. (Perhaps you have done this -- I didn't check.) |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 6:02 pm Post subject: -11 |
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| Much better! |
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| jesternl |
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 5:36 pm Post subject: -12 |
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Thanks.. I was trying to finish it before leaving yesterday..
I've reworked it! |
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| Zag |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject: -13 |
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| I agree. We were left hanging too much. I'd rather you give the authors and have us name the books, or vice-versa. That would hardly give it away. |
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| Suspence |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 8:41 pm Post subject: -14 |
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jesternl, some feedback to help get your quiz a higher rating.
1) The notes say "name the one book written by these famous authors", but then the authors aren't provided.
2) It also looks like your list consists of only 20th century authors, you might want to note that.
3) You might also want a qualifier like the "most famous one book wonders". There are plenty of one book wonders, your quiz is looking for the most famous ones as judged by your source.
4) And your source lists 7, but your quiz has 10. Where do the other 3 come from? If they are just your opinion, you'll probably get panned by reviewers. |
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| jesternl |
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: -15 |
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Made my first Sporcle quiz too!
Click Me, Click me! |
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| Suspence |
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| Trojan Horse |
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 5:04 pm Post subject: -17 |
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Got them all in 2:24.
I'm sure most people will get most of them, but I doubt very many will get [Winning Lines]. Who's gonna remember that one? (Or even knew about it when it was on the air?)
Oh yeah, and hi LML! Long time no see! |
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| Zag |
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject: -19 |
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| A weird collection of fictional and real people. I would think you might have a better theme if you made three of them: Pen Names of Authors, Stage Names of Actors, and Fictional Characters with Multiple Names. |
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| MatthewV |
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:28 am Post subject: -21 |
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I think the people on the GL might do well at this one...
Link |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:44 pm Post subject: -22 |
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| I'm still entertained by the number of people who didn't notice the "secret answer" though. |
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| wordcross |
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:29 am Post subject: -23 |
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| Nice one! I usually suck at sporcles, but I enjoyed this one. got 9/12. I didn't recognize Umberto Eco's name, didn't know of any Erskine Caldwell books besides tobacco road, and I didn't equate "bucket" with "goblet" for Rowling (I probably should have come up with "fir" though.) |
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| Scurra |
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:09 am Post subject: -24 |
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I had quite a lot of fun finding ones that worked - even if the original submission had one that was broken.
I had fun putting the secret answer in though. It's one of my few bugbears with Sporcle - that there are so many great ideas that are then just slapdashed together apparently at random. (I know one of the features is to allow random ordering of questions, but shorn or context players need some clues to help them figure out missing ones. When I write puzzles like this I almost always use alphabetical ordering of answers so that solvers have some sort of extra clue.) |
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| Zag |
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:17 am Post subject: -25 |
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| NICE! I missed only the cyclops and the farmer, though I was furiously typing the last one with 5 seconds to go. (I had to look up Hosseini's book, however. I've read it, and I knew the word in the title from which you drop a letter, but I couldn't remember the other word in the title.) |
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| Poisonium |
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:21 pm Post subject: -27 |
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Thanks.
Fun fact: The longest of these with an unique solution is Canada and Burundi/Zambia/Angola. One passes through 16 other countries. However, it is rather controversial, so I decided not to use it. And I definitely couldn't find other interesting ones with that many anyway  |
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| Zag |
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject: -28 |
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Hah, ridiculously too hard for a (typical) geography-challenged American like me.
Your description was ok, but this sentence: "... where one can cross the least countries." You should say "fewest countries."
less, least, more, too much: used for a non countable item (i.e. water)
fewer, fewest, more, too many: used for countable items (i.e. countries) |
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| Zag |
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:35 pm Post subject: -30 |
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| LordKinbote wrote: |
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| Besides being way too hard for a non-movie buff like myself, it was fine. (I only got the Julie Andrews one as a movie. I also got the Mark Twain one just from the book.) I did get the theme, though, once I saw the answers. |
I think very few, if any, of the movies are obscure, and the fact that there's a theme should help you get the titles after you've figured it out. Thanks for trying it though. |
Yeah. I wasn't saying that it was too hard in general. I'm sure movie buffs will get most of them. There were a couple that I should have gotten, like the Brando one. |
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| LordKinbote |
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:28 pm Post subject: -31 |
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| It should respond to "phonetic alphabet" as that is the way most people would describe your theme. |
I'll add that to the list. |
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| Duke Gnome |
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:58 am Post subject: -32 |
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| It should respond to "phonetic alphabet" as that is the way most people would describe your theme. |
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| LordKinbote |
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:33 am Post subject: -33 |
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| Zag wrote: |
| Besides being way too hard for a non-movie buff like myself, it was fine. (I only got the Julie Andrews one as a movie. I also got the Mark Twain one just from the book.) I did get the theme, though, once I saw the answers. |
I think very few, if any, of the movies are obscure, and the fact that there's a theme should help you get the titles after you've figured it out. Thanks for trying it though. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:52 am Post subject: -34 |
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| Besides being way too hard for a non-movie buff like myself, it was fine. (I only got the Julie Andrews one as a movie. I also got the Mark Twain one just from the book.) I did get the theme, though, once I saw the answers. |
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| lexprod |
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:14 am Post subject: -36 |
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stag? |
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| Amb |
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:41 am Post subject: -37 |
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Thanks. I researched the countries one a lot more fully.
I might rework this one a bit anyway. |
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| Zag |
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:30 pm Post subject: -38 |
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Although I got a lot more on this one, I don't like it as much. This is primarily because there are way too many 3- and 4-letter words, which are impossible to find in this format. I got a lot of them just by typing names of animals, not by finding them in the grid.
Also, there is a huge range of obscurity of the animals. IMHO, since it is hard enough to find names in the bent-word-search format, you should stick with 6+ letter words and fairly common animals (that a 5-year-old would know). So no pangolin, taipan, okapi, or lamprey, and more giraffe, hippopotamus, crocodile, and the like.
Also, some QA for you:
Marmoset is spelled that way, not marmaset
Gnu is in the answer list twice
Maggot isn't an animal, it is the larval stage of flies.
Hen isn't an animal name, it is the name of a female of many species.
Ram and drake are terms for males of different species, also not animal names |
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