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Poisonium · annoyed by the old

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 Ecstatic Happiness

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Scurra · Daedalian Member

Whoah! My first ever completed quiz and it's already been properly published to the front page... They must have really low standards these days. Laughing

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Scurra/missing_letter_titles
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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

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.)

Scurra · Daedalian Member

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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wordcross · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:29 am Post subject: 45

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 · Daedalian Member

I'm still entertained by the number of people who didn't notice the "secret answer" though.
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

I think the people on the GL might do well at this one...

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Amb · Amb the Hitched.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Peppermallow/by-what-other-name

Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

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.

LoudmouthLee · Member of the Year

http://www.sporcle.com/games/LoudmouthLee/onewordgameshows

This was actually an editor's pick way back when.
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Suspence · Daedalian Member

I love Sporcle. I've had a few of my word quizzes published:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/suspence/firstlastletters3
http://www.sporcle.com/games/suspence/firstlastletters4
http://www.sporcle.com/games/suspence/firstlastletters1
http://www.sporcle.com/games/suspence/fivelettersbypatter

I've also created bunch of other quizzes, if anyone is interested:
http://www.sporcle.com/user/suspence/contributed
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jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

Made my first Sporcle quiz too!
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Suspence · Daedalian Member

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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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

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.

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

Thanks.. I was trying to finish it before leaving yesterday..
I've reworked it!

Suspence · Daedalian Member

Much better!
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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

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.)

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

thanks for the feedback!

Scurra · Daedalian Member

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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Gomez · candid chimera

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 Felicitous

Suspence · Daedalian Member

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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Scurra · Daedalian Member

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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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

Scurra · Daedalian Member

Suspence · Daedalian Member

Here is my latest effort

And this one is similar

OK, one more
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Gomez* · Guest

Cheers for the feedback guys Felicitous

Suspence · Daedalian Member

This one just got published
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Gomez* · Guest

Here's another from me:

Guess The Movie From The Music.

Hope you like it. As usual, any feedback is gratefully appreciated.

Cheers.