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:protest: and once again... :protest: i know the correct answer for quiz of the day today and i gave the answer to the quiz and it didn't accept it!!! :no: this was the fifth or sixth time that this has happened to me. :cry: why does it happen? :sos: if someone says i'm only kidding, the today correct answer is 'A MAGICAL MYSTERY GAME'! :facts: :hammer: |
Yep seems to be another Quiz error, it happens sometimes when the site decides to play funny games with us. There are good reasons for why it does them but I can't remember what they are, something to do with two versions of the node and the Quiz looking for the old one, but the drop down giving the new one.
I searched the game, found the screenshot, got the name from the drop down and was Incorrect. Just so people know. Oh and does someone want to edit that name out so that if this does get fixed it's not sitting there. :p |
there's also another possible error that has to do with the quiz:
the current screenshot can be found under both "xxx" and "xxx". |
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I know which games you mean and: no, the zcreenies ain't the same. There is one detail in today's quiz sceenie that can tell you which game is the correct one. And yes, if you input the correct game name, you get your PoE (as yours truly did, of course) Tomorrow I'll post a pic with the difference and how to determine about what game the quiz was about. Quote:
No need to edit the game name or anything, you screwed up, not the quiz. |
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thanks the answers!
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Fury has a dot path line, Pac in time has a small Pacman thingie in the screenie.
http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/6043/pacfury.th.png Not the same, capiche? :p |
TA pointed out why this game has the screenshot on two games, and thats fine....if a little odd. Makes the quiz a little bit harder. :p
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There are also issues with oldwarez list that may get in the way with quiz... just so you know.
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and today again... :omg: i had known the correct answer again and i got the same error sign again! :wacko: :no: |
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Me too... :no:
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But somebody saying above, that very similar screenshot can be found at an another game and clone, and that is the correct answer... We'll see tommorrow... |
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AND... the today quiz really interest me! |
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did you use copy&paste or autocomplete?
also, i seem to remember that "oliver and company" used to be spelled with a "&". could it be that this wasn't changed everywhere? |
Oliver and Company was changed from & due to it being a bugged Screenshot before. Guess the bug is still there somewhere. These things happen guys, not much we can do about them. If you really want some PoEs send in a review for a game. We need reviews for a lot of games waiting to get onsite.
Have a look Here! for some you might like to do. |
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I don't know why, but the quiz never accepts any answer with "&": Oliver & Company; Skull & Crossbones; etc. I know only (?) one person who gets his/her PoE (how???)... But I wonder if he will give us hint (secret technique)... *puppy eyes* :whistling: |
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I gave the correct answer yesterday :mischief: and I wrote only 'oliv' under the quiz and Abandonia gave me the full name of the game and accept the 'Oliver and Company'. After this I clicked on 'Guess!' ! :whops: |
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and once again... :cry: |
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I wonder how we can get our beloved PoE... I know there is only, only a AB member who can always get his PoE with no problems. His username starts the letter D... :( :cry: :crybaby: BTW, I am currently using Opera, Firefox and SeaMonkey. :sick: |
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If you guys really...really want to get PoEs then Translate, write reviews, make screenshots for said reviews and provide games that we don't have or extras for games.
All of those give you way more PoEs then the daily quiz. |
I do not understand why the Quiz has error many times, today I had a correct answer and the answer was Unfortunatelly, blablabla...
So? It could be work well or do I calculate with this in the future? Today answer is **************** and did not accept :( :( :( :( |
Turns out this is one of those games that need to have %26 inserted instead of &. :mhh:
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Yup, it must be the "&", I'm sorry guys but I can't "refund" around 150000 users :p, don't take it so seriously, sometimes the answer is on the screen and the quiz is very easy, sometimes it's impossible to guess (literally) :p
We will try to solve the problem though, thank you for reporting it. P.s. the %26 worked. |
yeah yeah...
i knew the right answer :omg: and the automated quiz master didn't accept it! :o :cry: sniff-sniff oh master :eww:, why do you do this with us? i'm gonna fight :guybrush: for my poeights! :hihihi: |
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It is not really all that important to me (lie). I do enjoy the minor sense of puzzle solving %26 getting PoEs accredited for answering correctly %26 listing things off that have '%26' in the sentences. :mischief:
I do value the residual side effects of the quiz though. There are so many more games out there that I never would have even known about if I had not looked at them while searching for the answer to the Daily Quiz |
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and it happend today... again! :(
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Today, again :(
problems with the numbers... :sucks: |
Yes, some numbers and special characters it seems :mhh:
Unfortunately we can't do much, we reported the problem many times but they haven't solved it, and I don't have access to the source code so I can't even try to patch it. I hope soon or later we will find a solution, sorry for the inconvenience guys. |
Some Daily Quiz error info (?)
After a little research, it turns out it has to do with URL encoding. It just means that certain characters need to be converted to a different code before they can be transmitted over the Internet.
"...Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."You can get a list and read more about it if you want. It's kind of interesting (to me, at least) and to "Oliver+%26+Company ". Isn't "Skull+%26+Crossbones" the symbol for Piracy or Poison (death to the quiz, in this case). It still doesn't fully explain why today's damaged tissue (lesion) didn't register. Perhaps this was the time it was damaged after the last quiz trauma. Wasn't that the fifth or so such incident?:sneaky: I guess it really has little to do with the actual quiz itself, just something to be on the lookout for in the future. I'm going to view this just like it is another buggy game. Now that I know what the bug is, I know what to look out for in the future.;) |
Interesting diagnosis Ohne :mhh:
This could really help, don't know when but at least know we know more about it :OK: |
No offense, but we knew that already. Better said, we knew that it is a little bit different. URL encoding is not the problem (spaces work, for instance) but the solution. The & is parsed as AND so we have to replace it by %26. For 7th Legion I thought that the problem could be that it was 7th Legion, The in the past. Tests via dummy accounts didn't confirm that, though.
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From "The Tick" (paraphrased): Arthur (?): No offense intended, Tick. Tick: No offense comprehended. If "we" already knew that, then I was not a member of the "we" when that happened. I knew something about the ampersand (&), but couldn't remember the number needed to replace it, so I tried looking it up on the Internet. I didn't know anything about the The for 7th Legion, but that just leads me to believe it is possible that the data for that entry exists in two places in two different forms. If that were true, a == would never be possible since the information doesn't match itself. I'm still trying to figure out why it accepts spaces which, according to theory, should technically be %20, but they show up as plus signs (+) in the URL. It's an opportunity for more knowledge and a learning experience for me, so I thought I would share what I discovered on the way. Anyway, I was just looking at it from the viewpoint of a puzzle to be solved. I've heard that if you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem. This might not always be true, but it didn't feel right to me to constantly complain about not getting my PoE for the Daily Quiz errors without trying to do at least a little bit of research as to why. The game is afoot kind of thing, you know? Hmm... there is no Sherlock Holmes smilie... :huh: |
It accepts spaces because the quiz has nothing to do with URLs. It's a JavaScript application that compares your input with the title of the respective game. Either the JavaScript sees the ampersand as an operator or the site stores the ampersands in game titles as & or %26 to avoid an operator or an HTML error for other instances.
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Thank you, I can see that now. :OK:
Javascript, PHP, URI encoding, URL encoding, not talking to each other in the same computer language... bleh. As I said though, a learning process. Just out of curiosity, did anyone check "The 7th Legion" or "Seventh Legion" with the dummy accounts? It doesn't really matter in the long run, just interesting to me. |
It's a learning vacuum. I've read a 1000-page PHP instruction and forgot approximately 999 pages. For HTML, JavaScript and CSS I always use references. I should at least start a notebook for the problem solutions I reach, but I'm to unorganised to do that. *^_^
I did only check "7th Legion, The", "7th Legion%27 The" and "%37th Legion" (for an unlikely problem with a beginning cypher). I didn't think of that the game could have been "The 7th Legion". :doh2: Another cause could be a wrong relation between screenshot and game, but that is unlikely. |
and today again i entered the correct answer and the 'quiz master' didn't accept it... :oh:
:( 'Why do you make me feel denied? Always pushing me aside You do not decide what's wrong or right TELL ME WHY am I feeling so much pressure? Am I searching for the answer? I'm running out of time And I hope that I get what I wanted This time's for real Is there anything I wanted? Is there anything I needed?' Ill Nińo - This time's for real |
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:dislike:Okay. In my case, since I get these "wrong" with the same frequency as the rest who are told they have given the incorrect answer, I'll play along. For every daily screenshot quiz, I follow these steps: - Find the game page on site - double check the screenshot vs. the main page - select and copy the text from the game's title on the individual game page - paste the copied name into the quiz form text field - wait for the drop down response - verify the correct response matches what I have pasted exactly - select the response from the list - verify the response now filled in by the auto-response list matches what I have pasted exactly (since the copy is already in my buffer, it is pasted in a new text window and verified) - hover my mouse over the submit button - lean my head back, close my eyes and begin typing things furiously at random until eventually the keyboard buffer overflows or the 'enter' key is pressed - hope and pray the answer for the day is, by some act of other worldly power, correct :spyder: '...Being a bastard works.' |
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May the Force be with you! :vader: |
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Seriously, I think I may have found a possible cause. Look at the dropdown (entered info today) and tell me there isn't a difference between what I am supposed to be seeing and what actually shows ( Ber muda Triangle). When you select it, it pops in okay, but... :dunno: |
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I was looking over the forums and I saw your reply. I'm confused -- you were trying to enter Bermuda Syndrome as the correct answer for today's quiz and it was telling you it was incorrect? Maybe I misread your post but Bermuda Syndrome was yesterday's answer. Today's answer is .... well, I had problems with today's answer as well since .... instead of a "/" in the middle of the name, Abandonia uses a "-" in the middle of the name. (If you try to enter a name with a "\" or a "/", you get an error.) If I'm off track here .... just ignore the post. :D |
For whoever's sake
If they want me to just not come here anymore, just block my IP.
Today's failure brought to you by the name of the doctor who fixed the leg of the chump who shot and killed Abe Lincoln. This is the same guy who was eventually surrounded by Union soldiers, and shot by a guy whose first name is the capital of Massachusetts, USA. He died on the porch of a farm that had the same name as the character of the Thief series of video games. The link points to a site for Thief. The first paragraph mentions Jerry, that's me. Do a search for "loothrough" on Google. It's a walkthrough that shows you where all the loot is in a level. Big deal. |
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Hmmm... :umm: I have mixed feelings: • pouting? :rant: :flame: :zoidberg: • feeling helpless? :sos: :dunno: :eeee: |
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You see the current picture in the screenshot quiz has these lines on the bottomhttp://www.abandonia.com/files/20110529.png While this is the picture from M.U.D.S.http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/458/MUDS_9.png |
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You see the current picture in the screenshot quiz has these lines on the bottom http://www.abandonia.com/files/20110529.png edit (actually this picture won't display in all browsers; sometimes I get the error message: The image "http://www.abandonia.com/files/20110529.png" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.) While this is the correct picture from M.U.D.S. http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/458/MUDS_9.png |
Ahh, so because the posted pic is corrupt, we somehow don't get credit for the correct game, regardless? Oh well... it's certainly not the end of the world.
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I'm sorry, but there is no picture there at all today! It is really "blank form".
This is not good at all! |
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Well, that picture is blurred on the bottom... :doh: |
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Wow, do I ever feel very foolish. Yesterday's quiz was actually something else entirely.
I had 5 billion chances to get it correct and of course, I guessed the one wrong answer. Go figure.:mischief: |
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I am not sure, but I guess there is another bug again! :sick: :wall: :hairpull:
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Yes, I think you're right.
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Mathematics quiz: :hairpull: ⇒ http://i511.photobucket.com/albums/s...n/77f1f9cf.jpg??? :what: :doh: :whistling:
Hmmm... :umm: Today's hint: :mhh: Victor von Doom laughes while something is bugging Thing: make a mistake in quiz can doom Alicia's hope... :doh: :hypno: :hypno2: :wacko: |
I even posted my guess with %28 and %29 and it still didn't work.
Oh well. At least I have some comfort knowing that someone else thought yesterday's answer looked a lot like Mickey Mouse with a dagger in his back. |
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Today's quiz i bugged. The autochoice offers the 3 games from the series, I chose the right title, and it says the guess was incorrect!
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Another one here. I knew the game, and I selected correct one from auto-guess - and it is "wrong". I suppose, either auto-guess cannot work with very long names/parenthesis, or it's the same for matching part.
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and today again the quiz master got drunk or something :wacko: and didn't accept the correct answer ...Fantastic...
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Fantastic? Hmmm... I was thinking of a different word that starts with the letter 'F'.
My theory, just a theory, is that if you read the review for the game, you will notice the title in the review is always written with an '&' sign. So maybe that was supposed to be like one of the other games. We may as well start a list of past failures:
I'm sure there are others I don't know about or don't remember. |
Hungry yog
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Dungeon master of course. :D |
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• :flame: • :ninja: • :tease: • :zoidberg: / :orangeghost: |
I'm pretty sure I gave the correct answer as I'm a fan of the series but unfortunately the quiz states my answer was incorrect. (I'm using english version of the hp)
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Todays quiz works fine, you simply screwed up. :bleh3:
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indeed :wall: ... :doh: ... :lol:
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I've solved the problem with Wing Commander II bug, there was a Spanish corrupted translation in the hint list of the quiz.
Wing Commander II - Vengeance of the Kilrathi Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi (Spanish Corrupted) Remember to report here all the titles affected by problems and I'll try to do my best to fix them. Thanks for the feedback :OK: Edit: Also fixed today one, happy quiz :) |
Thanks Dave...:1stplace:
Now about those Poe...:bounty: (kidding) |
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Hmmm... :mhh: Nice Idea! Aha! Yippee! :idea: :doh: :clap: :whistling: :perv: A compensation for material and moral damages suffered. :eeee: :cry: :crybaby: :sad: :byesad: |
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Unfortunately, it seems there is another bug today. :headslap:
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Thanks. :OK: |
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but i don't say a thanks for the bug... |
Dave, today's quiz exposed two more games:
[removed] - See twillight's post below. ~Luchsen |
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But there is certainly no such problem as the same picture would apply to more then one game! Please never tell the solution of the Daily Quiz on its day, even if you think the answer is incorrect!!! (And it IS correct today.) |
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I suppose, you wasn't copied this reply to Dave, Luchsen? Ok. As I don't remember it too, then I will contact Dave directly tomorrow... |
I saw the post and I'll give it a look, but yes please, it's important to report bugs but it's better to wait the day after because if it's a false positive the fun of the game is ruined.
If you are not sure just send me (or to one of the crew) a PM adding the screenshot and what you think the problem is. :OK: [edit] If you add the same title of the game page you'll answer correctly, however there are two entries that can trick people, I'll try to remove them if possible. |
Found the problem, one fixed and I'm fixing the other :)
It's a problem of unsynchronized translations. |
it seems like there's once again a problem with the current picture.
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The correct answer is in the picture... :bleh1: |
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But not today! :( |
Well, it happens. It is not the first time, and surely is not the last.
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i know, but if we don't say anything, the people in charge have no chance to fix the game's entry.
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I am waiting to see if it will still be fixed today so that I could possibly still get the 5 POE.
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for me too, theres a bug... one i encountered numerous times... a picture is displayed, clearly identifiable as this or that game... but when i type in the solution, it says "incorrect answer" - like yesterday, the pic was clearly "total eclipse", today it says it was bc's quest for tires... that - excuse the frank words - sucks...
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Please keep reporting them, we have solved many in the last year :) |
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apart from the occasional bug in the quiz, keep up the great work, guys! |
Dave, it happens again. :) I am double-checked each picture, it was only one answer - and it says wrong. Check spelling of auto-fill, please, I think, it was spaces in the begin... but I can be wrong.
---addition--- Ooops, forget it. :) It seems, I was lucky to answer just when "site's day" was changing, so now it appears that I answered on today's quiz not yesterday "Moonstone". :) |
It worked for me today, yes, maybe you answered during the switch of the picture. :)
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What happens at the GMT+2 changeover of the screenshot quiz?
Today I got a gif file http://www.abandonia.com/files/20110912.gif http://www.abandonia.com/files/20110912.gif at exactly GMT+2 which is from http://www.abandonia.com/files/20110912.png and when I answered the game that it came from I was ruled correct. |
I can't tell you for sure, but it looks like a load glitch during the changeover.
Sorry but I can't do much for that, the code may have little problems, but which code is perfect? :) BTW we have started to update all game nodes too reduce quiz errors, it will take lot of time but the result is guaranteed. |
I just wonder though because it is still on the server the Abandonia server the picture of http://www.abandonia.com/files/20110912.gif in addition to the current quiz photo of http://www.abandonia.com/files/20110912.png
Both are currently active links for the date of 2011-09-12. |
Interesting, I will give it a look, they have the same filename but I suspect it's a matter of different file type (.png and .gif)
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I've replaced Quarantine II screenshots, it is possible that they were the source of the glitch because of their wrong format and wrong filename.
If you notice something else let me know, thanksfor the report :) |
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If you would like, I can give you a detailed list. |
Thanks, it's a nice idea, I will definitely give it a look. :)
However I think the problem was a mix of two events, the different format and the name of the node that was edited from Quarantine II to Quarantine II - Road Warrior, but the screenshots kept the old name. |
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Here is a partial list so far through letter "B". Let me know if its any help and if you would like me to check the rest. |
It looks like the problem occurs with .gifs that are recognized as .pngs
For example: Back to the Future Part II If you try to save the 8th picture you'll see a file named: Back to the Future Part II_8.gif.png However .jpgs pictures are ok, same for animated gifs. It would be great to have a detailed list, but it will probably take lot of time for you to prepare. |
It did take a lot of time to prepare but I am somewhat obsessed with the screenshot quiz.
Here is a complete list of the Games that have pictures with a file extension of the Graphics Interchange Format (gif). I marked off those that download correctly as a .gif One other thing that I noticed while checking through the screenshots. There are a few games whose screenshots names no longer match the game's names. For example; The screenshots of Bust-A-Move are named Puzzle Bobble and the screenshots of Black Monday are named Stock Market - The Game. There are others that have only a part of the game's name like the screenshots of (Games - Winter Challenge, The) are named just Winter Challenge and the screensots of Denarius Avaricius Sextus are named just Avaricius. I hope that they wont cause problems with the daily screenshot quiz. |
Checked Back to the Future and 5th fleet. Well, it's really png. Why it named "gif"?.. But non-consistent names, I think, means more...
Dave, is there way for you to check game dirs directly, not through "common" interface? It could be much faster, I think... |
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The discrepancy of names can cause problems and glitches, the source of the problem is that a title was modified but the page wasn't updated accordingly. Quote:
I can solve it easily, just need the time and your patience :) I'll keep you updated, here you can see my progress: |
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Also I see that the new 5th fleet screenshot has the name including the added ", The" (like the current name of the game on Abandonia) but the other screenshots are just named 5th fleet without the ", The" and there are many other games on Abandonia that have similar minor discrepancies. Does that affect the quiz? |
It could affect the quiz, yes please, once done with the first replacement I will look into that secondary problem.
But can you explain me why you need 3 accounts to post here? I understand one could be for testing the quiz but aren't we exaggerating a bit? Edit: [The accounts will be merged] From now on I'll leave normal .gifs screenshots as they are, the system recognize .gif as a correct format and it's pointless to substitute them with pngs. I'll just substitute the .gif.png files which are the real source of glitches. |
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Of course, if it's was exactly what you means, I am utterly sorry. :) |
Sure I meant that, I'm just reuploading them removing the .gif part to be sure.
It is working as far as I know, I've verified every node I edited :) |
Hello again.
Here is an enormous list of screenshots that don't match the game's name exactly. Most of them will not effect the quiz at all like today's screenshot which has added to its name the words "For Windows" even though it doesn't appear in the Game's name but the quiz worked just fine. In my next post I will subdivide that list into similar differences like the addition of ", The" at the end, the change from Arabic numerals to Roman numerals, the addition of a subtitle, etc. However the following list which is not included in the previous list may affect the screenshot quiz. I have noticed that many of the games on site are missing the appropriate apostrophe, I am guessing that they were removed to avoid problems with the quiz. If so the following games still have the apostrophe or the screenshots are still encoded with a colon. Boppin' = still has the apostrophe. Chip's Challenge = still has the apostrophe. Corridor 7: Alien Invasion = still has the colon encoded in the screenshots. Dragon's Lair - Escape from Singe's Castle = still has the apostrophe. Fool's Errand, The = still has the apostrophe. King Arthurs K.O.R.T. Deluxe - the screenshots still have the apostrophe. L'Empereur = still has the diacritic. Maker's Matchup = still has the apostrophe. Mario's Game Gallery = still has the apostrophe. Montezuma's Return = still has the apostrophe. Motocross (aka Suzuki's RM250 Motocross) = still has the apostrophe. Nobunaga's Ambition = still has the apostrophe. Nobunaga's Ambition II = still has the apostrophe. Pharaoh's Tomb = still has the apostrophe. Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science = still has the apostrophe Radix: Beyond the Void = still has the colon encoded in the screenshots. Scooter's Magic Castle = still has the apostrophe. Snoopy's Game Club = still has the apostrophe. SpellCraft - Aspects of Valor = still has the colon encoded in the screenshots. Starflight 2 - Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula = still has the colon encoded in the screenshots. Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar = still has the colon encoded in the screenshots. Visions of Aftermath - The Boomtown = still has the colon encoded in the screenshots. Wing Commander II - Vengeance of the Kilrathi = still has the colon encoded in the screenshots. I hope that this is helpful. |
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Here are the lists subdivided by category Please let me know if you would like me to sort the rest of them too. |
Thank you for your huge work cdnp! It's enough for the moment.
I'll focus my time on the ".gif issue", after that I'll go ahead with translations update (other source of glitches) and then I'll check if the screenshots that have a different name are a real source of problems. However another good method which gave good result is keeping an eye on the daily quiz and report me problems, we found and solved many errors during this year :) |
You are welcome.
I am happy to see that one of the corrected screenshots (formerly with a .gif extension) has been successfully used in today's quiz. Oh. I see too that all of the names of the screenshots of Frogger II - Three Deep have been corrected even those that were always a .png. Well, you can check that one off the lists. |
It wasn't easy but now it's done :)
The problem with the file extensions and the corresponding glitches have been solved. Now I'm going ahead with translations nodes that needs to be updated, this will solve other glitches like different title names and so on. Thanks for your help cdnp, if you notice other oddities let me know :) |
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it doesn't accept the correct answer today... |
Ok, I've solved problem.
There were two titles who can lead to a mistake. But the quiz works. I've deleted your second post, please don't post the answer next time, if you think that there's an error PM me instead. |
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Today's quiz is wrong. I looked up the game, compared the picture, chose the right answer, and still says "unfortunatelly you are wrong".
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Thanks for the report twilight, I've found the problem and I've solved another one for Eye of the Beholder 1. :)
There were two similar answers, but one was connected to an outdated translation and was wrong. |
Wow. If it was EoB3, I was lucky, getting it from first time...
Or you already fix it at that time. :) |
Hello again.
I am concerned about the game node for game 667; Tom & Jerry Cat-astrophe. It shows up as Tom+%26+Jerry+Cat-astrophe (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/66...-astrophe.html). I hope that the %26 won't affect the quiz. Cheers! |
We are aware of the problem, and unfortunately it's one of those we haven't solved yet.
It's connected to special characters, especially the "&", but if you add the %26 it works. Once done with the other fixes I'll try to contact the technician again. |
The game Gobliiins is the only game that has it's screenshots in .bmp format. I hope that it won't impact the daily quiz.
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I don't think so, but I can't tell you for sure.
In case of problems I'll gladly substitute them :) |
Today's quizz solution is not in the game's database! Discovered by keeping eye on the suggestions, so no hurt yet. Please add it, so we can gain PoE for it today!
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Yes it is, and yes, it works. http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/767...ard01nd.th.png |
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I inputted the name and only the first of the 'special' chars and got the right suggestion in the drop box. So yeah, Que˛.... BTW, you best wait till the site is done loading, maybe that's the problem you had? Takes a while to load all the adcrap. |
Nope. The site must be flly loaded here t even start typing.
I entered all the letters/numbers, and got no result of the solution. Without any special characters, but the full name, all suggestions went away from the suggestion-box, that's why I assumed the title is not in the database. |
Hello.
Today's quiz's suggestion box offers two choices for the correct game One with arabic numerals and one with roman numerals. Since the game on site currently has roman numerals in the name, I chose the the roman numerals and was marked as correct. I hope that anyone choosing the correct game with arabic numerals from the dropdown choices in the suggestion box wont be told that they are incorrect. |
Happy new year everybody! Got to report the first error, tho (after not being able to log onto the site all day yesterday, but thats a different story - glad you got it fixed!)
So, the error i wanted to report: Todays - positively counter-checked - solution is not in the proposed titles... todays solution has one very iconic word in it, that appears - according to the searchfunction of the site - in 3 games you guys have listed, on of them being todays "screenshot"... but when i enter that very word, theres only the other two games... (i will not, however, post the proper solution, in order to not spoil the game...) |
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I noticed close to the same problem on Dec. 3 '11 when the correct answer was Frogger (3D) but when I typed in Frogger the suggestion box only offered Frogger and Frogger II - Three Deep. Though when I put in the whole name of Frogger (3D) it was recognized. |
ok, tried that one myself now, and, glad to report that, it did work. still, i think its worth reporting. :)
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Oh boy!
From yesterday's partial problem, to today it is even worse. I put in the correct answer Now since it did not accept the correct answer anyways even though I really put in the right answer and I hid my answer under a spoiler warning and only entered it obliquely, I hope that I won't be blamed for ruining the quiz for anyone else. I really hope that these problems can be fixed soon. P.S. @underdog I am glad that I was able to be of some help. |
:( another error in the game... having put in the proper answer (the pic in the quiz and the pic in the article are a perfect match...), the quiz says i got the wrong answer...
hmm, just saw your post, cd... guess its another error in the database... :( |
Abovo employees upgraded the servers and are working on the cache problem recently, so that could be the reason.
Please send me a PM with the last titles affected by problems, I'll look into it as soon as possible. Thank you for reporting them. :) [edit] I've updated Ocean Ranger, it won't solve today's problem but it should work next time. |
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Thank you as always for promptly working on fixing the problem. I really appreciate it. I look forward to the quiz all day.
P.S. Was it O.K. for me to post the correct answer before the end of the quiz in the manner that I did? Previously I just put down a hidden hint. |
and another bug... todays screenshot... is not really to hard to guess... id again rate that as "clearly identified" ... sent you a PM, Dave...
oh, and, let me add this: :( |
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Three days in a row!! :protest: I need my fix! It also seems that I am not the only one who waits immediately for the GMT+2 screenshot changeover to answer the quiz. It just took me a little longer to post because I was trying to prepare this: |
oh no... again... a quiz error :palm:
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Tonight's was a cracker! The name of the game was actually on the screen shot but that answer came up wrong as well!
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It is wrong again, today. Or at least I selected the correct answer from the list and it told me I was wrong.
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I needs my PoE!
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Now it's the 3rd day in a row I (using Windows XP and Opera) found the correct solution which was treated as wrong.
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Confirming it. Dave, today shot is first on game page, and it won't work. Maybe space in shot name have something with it?
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If you are considering that it could be a browser issue, I'm using Google Chrome and the answer said it was wrong, although I'm certain it wasn't.
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Yes, this is clearly a database problem, they upgraded server and moved something that was necessary for the quiz to work.
I'm disabling the quiz and notifying the technician, sorry for the inconvenience. |
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The technician is collecting details to solve it ASAP, I'm sending him a detailed report of the issue. Stay tuned and please have patience :)
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need the Quiz back :)
I need the Quiz back :) pls...:blush:
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Haha! yea I know, I'm in a nice habit of checking for Quiz every day. :)
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As I see here are a lot of quiz addicted people around...like me. :sneakrete:
Oh, I'm sick :tease:... Doctor, doctor I need my medicine! :smug: |
I know you are working on whatever problem exists with the quiz, and while I miss it, I appreciate that your people are taking the time to fix it so we can have it back and working properly. Thank you for your time and work fixing it!
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Thank you guys for your appreciation and kind words, I doubt the technician will go ahead during the weekend but don't panic because he's definitely up for the role. I'll keep you updated as soon as I have any news.
In the meantime don't forget to enjoy our games, our forums and its crazy fauna :D |
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Same, I check for a quiz, but... there's no quiz appearing today :(
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Today's live test worked for me, please send me your feedback! :smile2:
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Works fine.
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Yay!:clap: Its back and it works!:partytime:
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Doesn't work for me
Somehow North & South is the wrong answer to the North & South pic.
But I can answer multiple times... :crybaby: |
Oh well, back to the shenanigans. The name is clearly in the screenshot, yet it marked me as wrong. Now that I have only one account, I wonder if it will accept an "and" instead of the "&" (ampersand) that was presented in the dropdown suggestions or maybe it requires %26 for the answer to work.
edit. It does allow me to try again and today's correct solution is to use %26 instead of &. |
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oh, NOOOOOOOOOOOO... the quiz wrong AGAIN! :( |
Yeah, it's back but it doesn't work for me either. :cry:
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Don't panic, that's the old issue with special charaters, instead of & put the %26, it worked for me.
I will ask to solve this problem too, sorry for all these issues, but at least the database seems ok now. :) |
Since other people posted while I was editing my post, here it is again.
As you can read earlier in the thread here and here, it is a leftover bug in the quiz possibly from when they changed the name from "and" to "&". However today the quiz allows you to try again and to get the 5 Pieces of Eight use %26 instead of &. Take the answer from the dropdown and substitute %26 for the "&" and you will be marked as correct. |
I've just sent the report.
Thank you for your patience guys, if we are lucky the Quiz will work even better than before :) |
I tried everything, it says i am wrong, i tried many times and if it was working well i should only have one chance.
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the "&"
Today, my answer does not accepted on care of the letter of "&". :(
It is not fixed ;( It is possible to extend the Search criteria with the "and" or "And" where "&" characters are appears? :-o |
just for the record, when i entered the - obvious - solution, it came up with the right title. i chose this title from the dropdown, but it was shown as wrong. after checking on the forum, i refreshed the page, and, well, it let me enter another solution - which was accepted as wrong **** again. so i did refresh another, and then, finally, the same solution i had entered before (actually, i was copy and pasting from the menu before, since i expected something like that) did the job....
thanks, anyway, for taking care of fixing the quiz :) |
finally a game I knew and quiz isn't working. ah nm, the Amiga version was 10 times better anyways :P
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I can confirm that the database problem is solved. :OK: |
There's something wrong with the quiz today: it is too easy.
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I have wonderful news, Rafiq said he fixed the problem connected to special characters! This means that the ampersand (&) should work now :p
I'm waiting to hear your feedback guys. :) P.s. This was the biggest bug left, if you notice other glitches or problems please report them to me, the problems left should be connected to old/corrupted nodes which just need to be updated. |
??? WHY ??? :o
:facts: ************** :facts: is the answer! why didn't accept it? ??? WHY ??? :what: I thought there aren't any problems with the quiz anymore! :no: :wall: |
Don't panic please, I'll try to find the problem, it could be just a corrupted node.
I'll contact the tech in case the problem will appear again during the next quiz. |
Just a quick reply to let you know the quiz with the airplane screen is borked.
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I found the game but got it marked incorrect too (hint: the name of the game is some name of a card combined with some name of a planetary body of liquid :3: ).
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Same here...
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and again today... quite obvious... i played that game a gazillion times... screen crosschecked... but, again, "wrong answer"... sent a pvt message to dave...
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and once again. if i'm not mistaken, the correct answer is some kind of hunter missing one of his Rs.;)
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I see, I'm disabling it.
I'll keep you updated, I hope tomorrow he'll find the time to fix it. Sorry for the trouble. |
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It was a nice run while it lasted, and I got a decent number right in a row except for yesterday.
You have a good track record for fixing things here; I'll miss the quiz, but I know it will be back up when it's fixed, and thank you for working on the problem! |
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For me the Quiz fail is not fatal error. So do your repair calm and without pressure. :whistling: |
Thanks for the kind words, I'm collaborating with the Technician to solve this as soon as possible.
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...and back! It's working now.
Remember to refresh the pic and let me know :) |
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I'm happy again. :)
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Hello.
The game of the screenshot for today's quiz does not show up in the dropdown suggestions. Happily though the quiz does accept the correct answer. I only tried the answer with the name completely capitalized as it is on site though, I don't know if it will be accepted with lower case letters. |
I didn't know game, so I was forced to cheat. ;)
Yeah, Dave, I am confirming it. Name is too short, filter cannot get it. Nothing serious, of course. |
Thanks for the report, I'm not sure I'll find a solution for this but I'll give it a look :)
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I confirm, the name is too short.
Well, Mobygames calls it "ACE: Air Combat Emulator", we could correct two things at once. :) |
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I was marked as wrong again today even though the game title is clearly in the screenshot. Maybe it is due to the nightmarish:sneakrete: subtitle that was given in the suggestion dropbox and in the games current name on on site but the subtitle is not given in the source screenshot on site which is ---- --_3.png. I had posted already a list of games that have had a subtitle added to the games name but the screenshot is without them. |
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„...the game title is clearly in the screenshot...” Yes, cdnp is completely right! The quiz is bad again!!! :sucks: :palm: Edit: I have a deja vu about quiz error... :3: |
The quiz has some troubles again.
:cry: This terrible feeling of despair. And this terrible feeling that I already had this terrible feeling of despair. |
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Same problem here :blush: just a minit ago, and yes, I've seen it before..
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Mee too with the deja vu. Are they going to take it offline again?
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One more confirmation....
I suggest we should record a new entity in everyone's personal account: the probably earned pieces of eight. Like in the aerial victories: if you can't prove you have shot down an enemy, they count it as a probable victory for you. I have many probably earned pieces of eight :smile2:. |
i, too, share that strange, sudden feeling of deja vu... :(
the quiz again didnt like my - very blatantly correct - answer... |
It should be fixed soon, sorry for the trouble.
I've updated the screens and the translations just to be sure. I'll keep you updated. |
New one for today works fine.
:OK: |
Thanks for the feedback and for the reports, we are still trying to prevent this to happen again.
P.s. ACE: Air Combat Emulator has been fixed too. |
the funny thing is that it now gives "front lines" as the correct answer for yesterday's quiz, although i clearly remember getting PoEs for "operation frog".
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One other point. The game on site is called NHL Hockey 94 but the screenshots have the name of NHL Hockey 93 as I have mentioned before. Well from Dosraider's response the quiz seemed to work anyways. I couldn't check it out because as I have mentioned the old screenshot came up and I answered incorrectly again. |
„...Yesterdays correct answer was NHL Hockey 94...” :omg:
XD Don't tell me this! :no: Yesterday...NHL Hockey 94... :perv: NHL Hockey 94 :hihihi: Oh, what a Deja Vu... :3: :hello: Edit: I know the answer of the day...the answer is Leisure Larry 4!!! :hihihi: This isn't true... :D |
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The "drop box" did act kind of funny. I had to key in the first 2 words of the title before this title showed up on the list. For some reason, the first word alone was not sufficient.
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I checked the game but this time it's not a bug, it's just how the search engine reacts to number and names, normal and romans.
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and another error... @ dave: see your PMs
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Yup! Its a cardinal sin.
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I just can't take it anymore. :crybaby: ;)
"Cardinal sin..." :hysterical: |
an evil spy has manipulated the quiz again. :oh:
This is not only a cardinal sin (good one) one might say it is a plot worthy of the Russia House. But I'm sure Jack Ryan can solve the problem. |
It's been bugged.
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It wrong again! :( I can't believe this! :no: The correct answer is "The Cardinal .. ... K......" :whops: :palm: |
Ok, mailing the tech again, he'll reload it as soon as he'll read my mail.
I've asked him for a long term solution but it looks like it's not so easy... |
Yep, the quiz botched up again. That is clearly Agent 47 in St. Petersburg Revisited :-P
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Seemz quiz haz been rezet, workz now.
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You know, this is not that difficult. I can write you a crap application in a crap language that will perform this function without failing most of the time.
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Easy to say without knowing anything about the whole situation.
It's still possible that your simple application wouldn't work in an old platform modified without a real criterion (and without taking documentation) affected by other problems of instability. The technician will try to go deeper next week. |
Abovo will probably be interested in hiring you, as long as you don't want to be paid, and agree to carry a huge sandwich board advertisement wherever you go :D
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Hmm... no complaints today... so I take it only me got the quiz wrong? Guess it's not a quiz bug but I screwed up somehow then... Alright, I'm out for now! :3:
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ugh, not again :( dave, sent you a pm...
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Thanks for the pm, I confirm it isn't working.
It should be reloaded soon. I'm sorry for the inconvenience but Rafiq is working on a long term solution. Once solved the problem with tables the number of quiz fails should be reduced drastically. [EDIT] Quiz Reloaded. I'll keep you updated about the fix. |
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Cache, refresh cache peeps !!!!!!!!! |
It truly is a fool's errand to try and answer these buggy quizzes but at least I get to keep on trying again and again until I can figure out what the correct input is for the apostrophe to be accepted.
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%27 does not seem to be working either...
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I understand your pain, sorry but I'm forced to disable the Quiz.
I'll update you as soon as I know more. |
It's too bad the quiz keeps having problems. I look forward to it coming back, and appreciate your working on fixing it.
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yep, quiz still down. hoping to see it working again, soon :)
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I noticed the Quiz Master is bad. That's why you turned it off. It deserves this...bad quiz...very bad quiz.
Do you want to come back and entertain the people? Beg for it bad quiz...beg for it, beg for it very, very bad quiz! Bad quiz! :hihihi: |
I miss my daily quiz... :(
Bring it back soon, please. |
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No news yet, he'll probably start working on it tomorrow.
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seeings how often this thing is wrong, why not just get rid of it? If it goes a week without being wrong, I'm floored.
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I don't know if there are any statistics about how many log in every day just for the daily quiz, but I think there are a lot of members doing that thing. .......And for many it's the only way to gather enough PoE to get an access invite to the hidden pr0n section. :ph34r: |
I am the one who got 400 pieces of eight in the last year from responding correctly in the quiz and I didn't have ever any problem. : P
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any news yet on when the quiz will be back? :)
as for bluewave: lucky you, then... then again, if you earned 400PoE and never failed, that also means you took part in 80 games... out of 365... chances ARE you were lucky to not stumble over one of the "bad" quiz days... fact is... the quiz has been having issues - which the abandonia crew eagerly fixed as soon as they could (just like any issues about the site are being fixed asap when made note of...) so, im hoping this current (rather longish) repair will fix the issue once and for all :) keep us updated guys. also, dont you dare drop the quiz from the site... whoever doesnt like can feel free to not take part! :) |
This is the situation: after many changes and a server upgrade made to improve many fields of the site the Quiz started to fail its duties every week or two. (Instead of the normal random glitches that we were able to fix once for all)
The tech guy noticed that there's a glitch that corrupt tables where the answers are compared. As you know there's a way to reload the Quiz, but this solves the problem only temporarily until a new problem appears. Don't worry the Quiz is still there and still (half) working, and we would like to have it back too. It's just disabled, I saw that this was becoming a source of frustration and difficult to manage so we decided to leave it disabled. I hope we will find a solution or we should start thinking other alternatives. That's pretty much all I know for now :) |
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I heavily doubt it. The only thing that I could see causing riots, is all the problems with the quiz. :palm: |
I don't, I know many users who come here each day just to have a crack at the quiz. And they would not be happy to see it go, in fact if you read a little bit here you would see people wanting it back already.
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Ditto. I, for one, would rather have the quiz back with an error here and there than not have it at all.
Even without the PoE, the screenshot guessing is good fun! |
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Pls. give back the daily Quiz :) I missing so much! :unsure: |
Yes, bring it back please. Seemed to work fine for me most of the time. So get rid of the facebook garbage and bring back the game.
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I am also among those wanting the quiz to be back. Please don't get rid of the one and only reason left for me to visit this site...
*ducks and runs* :bleh1: :hihihi: :p |
Consider this another person looking forward to the return of the quiz!
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Don't worry, we are still working on it.
I tell you more, we are going ahead with tests, it is possible that you'll see it on main page for few minutes during these days :) |
Oh, yeah I've been looking here every day for the quiz, and I miss it too!
I am willing to be patient; this means more time to work out what is wrong, and I am willing to wait for it to be fixed properly than to have the quiz put up prematurely and there are still problems with it, just to have it removed again. Thanks to all working hard on getting it fixed! |
How I long for the quiz being back online... :eeee:
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The live test is going well, I need more time to understand if it's a matter of luck or if the bug is hiding somewhere waiting to strike again.
The first positive thing is that we can reload the quiz without the support of the technician, this means we already have an effective solution for sporadic bugs. :) |
The live test went well and the quiz didn't fail for many days.
I'm enabling it for the weekend to see if it works, please give me feedback and report me problems. Don't forget that it's still possible that little glitches connected to games (not to the quiz) will appear, in this case just report me the title and I'll try to fix it ASAP. In case everything goes well I'll keep it enabled :OK: |
Hey it's up and it worked! Congrats and thank you!
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Thank you for fixing the quiz! I didn't experience any problems, and I am grateful for your work in getting this back up!
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Grats, Dave! (Hmm, and everyone here, I suppose. :)
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Top notch work, Dave (and everybody else that had a hand in it)! Much appreciated!
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The attempts to fix the quiz seem to be a 'fool's errand'... :crybaby:
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yep, for me too :( error in the quiz...
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Fool's error? :lol:
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Again i think it doesn't accept the good answer......
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it doesn't accept the correct answer today :(
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I think the problem is with game titles. Games that have titles like "Cow's Milk, The" that have ' hyphens, saxon genitive and the "The" at the end give error when you input them in quiz reply form. :)
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neither with the copied title, nor with the drop-down option, nor with "%27" instead of the apostrophe. |
Works OK for me now.
Finn MacCool I guess you will have to refresh your browser cache, BTW, it's not the Fool's Errand anymore, there is a new quiz. |
Have you refreshed? There's no apostrophe in the new answer.
[edit] Dosraider was faster :) |
it didn't accept the correct answer today...again! :picard:
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Same problem here.
Though the picture might be corrupted. See the picture here from the quiz http://www.abandonia.com/files/20120526.png and here from the game page http://www.abandonia.com/files/games...mer%2094_5.png may look nearly the same but they are not identical. |
lillehammer... also for me, it does not accept the - as cdnp stated - obvious answer... maybe its because theres a different version of the same pics? anyway, quiz = bad today
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How are the screenshots not identical?
I had the same problem; I'm hoping it is just a bug in the quiz. |
Yes, it's a pity.
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Quiz reloaded, thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble, I'll look for the problem.
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Thanks for fixing the quiz! Very much appreciated!
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And yet, life still goes on...strange. :) |
yep, the life goes on...
BUT that would be cool if an admin gave the POE to those people who s4ck3d in the quiz error! |
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Sorry but as I stated many times it's not feasible.
The last Quiz fail was connected to corrupted tables, it's the worst problem and we thought that was solved cause it didn't appear for 2 months. I've reported the issue to the tech guy, I hope he will find a way to fix it in a definitive way. Thanks for your patience. |
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Today's quiz gives 3 choices in the suggestion box for They are: plus one of those repeated. Well, since the game on site is now called |
I've found the problem and corrected it, the wrong names came from old translations nodes that weren't updated.
Thank you for the report :) |
Oh boy!
I hope that with all the new updates that something did not go wrong with the quiz. I was all jazzed up to answer but it rejected my correct answer. Maybe it took a holiday here? |
The quiz is trolling us this time, it says we were right... :smile2:
It's working now, thanks for letting me know. |
Hello again.
There may be a bug in today's quiz. The dropdown box offered two choice for the game for the screen shot |
Ok, thanks for the report, problem solved :)
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Is it just me or is the answer for today's quiz can't be selected from the combo/dropdown box?
EDIT: can't be selected as in does not appear in the list. |
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Yeah, you're right! Oh no, not again. :omg: :picard: |
I got it right...
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Please send me a Pm with details and I'll try to do my best :)
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PM with details in ya box...
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The node is published correctly and I've also tried to refresh/update it, however it looks like a glitch of the search engine or the Quiz module and how it sorts and visualizes titles, somehow I can see the title in the edit panel-dropdown, but not in the Quiz.
I'm sorry but I can't find a solution with my current permissions...but you can always consider it as a special challenge of the Quiz ;) |
Something isn't right today again!
I know the answer! My 7th sense is correct but the quiz-master is wrong-bad again! |
ditto.
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Oops!... They did it again... They played with your quiz... Got lost in the game... :bleh1:
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It also did not offer the suggestion for just "7", only when I entered "7th" did the game name come up but nevertheless wrong.
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That's one of our old enemies, it looks like the quiz can't really digest the title. Have you tried replacing special characters with %xx?
I'm reloading the quiz :) |
The dropbox suggestions for today's screenshot quiz offered the name of the game twice once with Roman numerals and once with Arabic numerals. I answered and was marked correct for using the Roman numerals as the game is currently named on site. I hope that anyone who chooses the answer with Arabic numerals will also be marked as correct.
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Thanks cdnp, your report helped me alot, I've found the issue and fixed it :), a similar problem was affecting the other titles of the series.
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I also confirm a problem with the quiz. I found the game, selected the correct game name from the dropdown list and received an incorrect answer message. I know you'll get it fixed, thanks ahead of time!
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in the past people have been able to get the correct answer by substituting some code in place of the apostrophe, does anyone know what that might?
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Tried with %27?
I've reloaded the quiz, it looks like it's still affected by URL encoding problems. I'm reporting the issue to the technician again. P.s. remember to refresh the picture! |
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While inputting the answer to today's screenshot quiz, I noticed that there are two entries for the second game of the series in the dropdown suggestion box. I hope that if ever that game is randomly picked for the quiz that it wont cause an error. Thank you. |
Thank you cdnp, corrected all 3 titles of the series, it looks like a problem that occurred when game titles were changed but translations were not updated. :)
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Thank you.
For today's screenshot quiz too there are 2 choices given in the dropdown suggestion box; one with an addition to the name as it is currently on Abandonia and one with a two word name. I chose the longer one and was marked as correct but I hope that if any one chose the other that they were also given credit. The 2 choices were: Thank you. |
Nope, accidentally clicked on the shorter one and was not marked correct.
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Just fixed, thanks for the report :OK:
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FYI, Today's screenshot game does NOT show up in the drop down list. I typed the name with a capital letter and it said it was correct.
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Thanks for the info. Earlier I thought that drop-down list could not spot the correct answer :sneaky:
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Haven't found a solution for this, the search engine behaves in mysterious way!
Consider it as quiz challenge :smile2: |
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Just another feedback, having problems today with the dropbox answering containing non alphabetical characters.
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Yup, quiz reloaded, let me know.
(Remember to refresh) I'm taking note of the problems, thanks for the feedback! |
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Something is wrong again with the quiz today!
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The dropbox even gave a regular "and" as the connector not the ampersand (&) and it still marked it as wrong.
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Didn't think anything would be messed up with "and" spelled out. Maybe it is just some type of db problem instead of the non-alpha character problem.
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unfortunately today and two days ago the quiz has error :(
but my answer was correct. |
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Reloaded, remember to refresh!
I'm preparing a list of titles affected by problems, once ready the technician will have something solid in his hands. |
It marked me wrong again today even though I put in the right answer.:cry:
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What a nice Christmas ripoff. :D
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Reloaded, I'm starting to think that the Quiz has its own sense of humour :smile2:
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Once again today there are two versions of the name for the game of today's screenshot, one with Roman numerals and one with Arabic numerals. I chose the one with Roman numerals as it currently appears on Abandonia. I hope that anyone who chooses the name with Arabic numerals wont be marked as wrong.
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The screenshot for today's game comes from the April Fools entry of last year. I recognized it because as I have mentioned earlier, due to my OCD with the quiz I have committed to memory all the screenshots on Abandonia even those from the April Fool's games. The current amount of games on site is 1365 with 9477 screenshots.
Who is supposed to recognize a screenshot from a beta version of a game? It did mark me as correct though when I answered. Perhaps since the game is still listed on Abandonia as opposed to Leisure Suit Larry Online and Strip Poker 3 from 2010 and 2011. For anyone who doesn't recognize the game, it is discussed here: http://www.abandonia.com/en/forum?ur...ad.php?t=28539 |
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Leisure Suit Larry Online was a fake game, screens were designed by some talented members of the crew, but the beta version of Warcraft adventures exists after all, those are real screens :)
The fact that it's vaporware put the game in the same category of those games you can't download from Abandonia, just consider the site as a sort of museum :) |
It looks like, that today"s quiz has a bug again.
As far as I know, this is the third part of a 5-part series. Nevertheless the quiz machine says that I'm wrong. :/ |
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Works flawless for me ..... |
Worked for me too, Fandi. Did you select name from the list?
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Right now it's 21:15 here, and the quiz says: "You can try your luck again in 3 hours and 45 minutes when the next quiz starts!", which means it will switch to the new one at 01:00. |
I'm pretty sure that the image today is from "Y:LPT 2 - Unhappiness from down below" - or something similar. I chose the answer in the drop down list - but it was wrong!?
Sorry! My mistake - the images are just to much alike. |
Can't click on "GUESS"
I know that today's answaer has to do something with a time measuring device... :). But when i try to click to GUESS button, it doesn' respond, and the list doesn't appaer. I don't have anything blocking cookies or scripts. Anyone met this problem today?
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drop down list is not working
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The drop down list will not work until you donate some amount to Abandonia. Bwa... ha... ha... ha... !!!
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Another one here. List and "guess" itself doesnt' work. It seems, banner broke it.
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It's been more than 12 hours and I am starting to go through Screenshot Quiz withdrawal. Who's the syndicate in charge here and are they looking for a war?
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yep, same for me... the auto-complete does not work, neither does the "guess" button... so... no way of taking part in todays quiz, yet...
team... any hint on when you will have it up and working again? thx! :) |
The technician has been notified.
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Still does not work today.
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Tried in IE (:sick:) and seems to work ... kinda anyway, needs copy/paste game name.
Won't work at all in FF. Congrats whomever is one of the 3 paid 'staff' , it seems it's possible to screw up something every time they add extra banners/adds. Tells a lot of the level of the "Abovo expertise" in those matters. XD |
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Worked fine for me yesterday and today, using Firefox 18. |
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Opera here. Still nothing worked.
Chrome. Same thing. IE. Doesn't work with base, but copy/paste worked as described above. Conclusion: modern FF is only browser that exist on "site staff" machines. Additionaly "missing security token" was generated when I had expired time, then tried to relogin in different page. Oh, well... |
I can also confirm the quiz isn't working. I've attempted to answer in the past two days using IE, FireFox, and Chrome. No go! Is it perhaps related to the donation banner on the top of the front page? I didn't notice any troubles before the banner was there.
Oh, and on an unrelated note, I did send a donation to the Abandonia staff. Many thanks to them for all they do! Abandonia is a fantastic resource to have available on the web! |
The Abandonia Daily Quiz is still being held to ransom today :bleh1:
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hey, abovo... whats up? you are aware that blocking the quiz with a dubious plea for donations (while im being bombed by non-related advertisement banners) is not going to make me donate... and i have a *hunch* im not the only one to feel that way; so, please, if you dont know how to make both the request for donations AND the quiz work... disable either... and take some time to consider what it is you want to close down...
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So we can't participate in the quiz unless we donate? Are they serious? Donating is always optional, that's why it's called a donation. At least someone from the staff should explain what is going on.
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Chris, it was a joke earlier. You don't need to donate anything, and donating will not allow you to vote. Contest is simply was broken because of banner.
BTW, today I was able to guess in my Opera. Unfortunately (as I didn't knew game anyway) I didn't wait enough to test if base works too, but guessing is. |
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Update of my previous message: it is banner. While I cannot press "more" because page didn't load to the end, I can guess in Opera. Base is not works, but button "Guess" is. When page loaded completely, I can press "more" at banner and "open" it, but button "Guess" stops to work. Great programming, it seems. (Tomorrow I will try to block banner altogether and see results :) |
Please use the contact form, many voices can make the difference.
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Aha, I cannot block banner, it's integral part of page, and not external element. :/ Great.
Well, I filled contact form. We'll see. :) |
This should be fixed and working now.
Many thanks to Rafiq for making this happen, and thank you to all of you for letting us know about the issue :) |
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Do you mean you're still having problems with it?
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With that "would be nice" I mean I'll know when the next quiz is coming up tonight ...... Since that banner I couldn't solve it in FF (19) and had to use IE (:sick:)
I'll see tonight and are hoping for better times without IE ..... |
Ah ok :)
I've tested in in ff 19.0 so let me know if you have a problem. |
.... at least the 'read more' option in the banner works now in FF ......
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I confirm it's working now, tested with Firefox and Chrome :)
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Lovely! :D
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Thanks for getting the quiz working again. :OK:
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Sent a message through the contact form yesterday and got a reply from Rafiq. Daily Quiz is working now :-D
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Dropbox with suggestions, 'guess' button, all fine. W7/ FF19 :rocks: |
Opera is fine now too. :D Give my heartfelt thanks to Rafiq, Lulu_Jane! (And thank to you too, if it's you initiated this work! :)
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I will let him know :D
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I still can't use it in Chrome. Nothing happens when I click on Guess button. Also, when I type the words, it won't give me suggestions.
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Ok, guess button is working now, but it still won't give me possible games based on words I type.
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Hmmm, this is working for me. Perhaps it is a browser problem, what browser are you using?
Also, did the page finish loading before you tried? thank you for the feedback Pex :) |
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It works when I use IE now, but I prefer not to. |
I'm glad it's working, although I'm sorry it's not completely cross browser compatible yet. We'll see what we can do :)
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again, todays correct answer does not appear in the dropdown menu, and if (copy and pasted) from the game entry in the database, the title is recognized as incorrect
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Strange, worked out fine for me ..... dropbox et all. Didn't put the name of 'series' in dropbox but ...first 3 chars of 'name that sounds strangely welsh' of episode, can make a diff, mayhaps ? |
It worked for me too from dropdown, but only after I typed to I. Didn't shown before. But it's usual Abandonia behavior with lot of matching games. :)
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The dropbox today refused to show the name of the correct game after inputting its name instead only showing the Halloween Harry game entry.
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The quiz doesn't work for me either!
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Today's answer to the quiz with the racetrack does not appear in the drop down menu, but I manually typed it in with a capital letter and it said the answer was correct.
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For today's screenshot quiz once again there are 2 choices given in the dropdown suggestion box;
Two other fixes might be needed. On Feb 27 Ping & Kooky's Cuckoo Zoo was marked as wrong. This was during the time of the quiz being messed up by the banner. However when I managed to enter the answer in a different browser manually I was marked as incorrect, probably due to the ampersand (&) as it has been a problem in the past. Also for the quiz of March 20 there was the previous name of the game still in the dropbox; Last Half of Darkness VGA. Previously on Abandonia the game had two separate pages Last Half of Darkness & Last Half of Darkness VGA. I chose Last Half of Darkness VGA and was marked as wrong. Perhaps the old name should be expunged. Thank you very much for the daily quizzes. I look forward to them every day. |
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Once again I was marked as wrong even though I entered the right game name for today's quiz.
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Same error here. Right answer cpoy+pasted and recognized as incorrect
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I got some login problem for about 3 days.
When I open Abandonia page it looks like I'm not logged in. I can't answer to a quiz of course. When I try to login the page changes to my user, but I'm still not logged to the site. There is no problem with forum as you can see. Problem tested in FireFox and IE10 - it occurs in both, doesn't matter which browser is used. Is it some page/cookie problem or just my computer gone weird? :mhh: |
I seem to be having the same problem as Muzzy, using Chrome myself.
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Same for me. I reported it as problem in "feedback" section.
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Everything seems to be back in order again now :)
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Yes. Seems, it worked on weekend and was fixed as soon as programmers returned. :)
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Today it didn't accept the correct answer!!! The correct answer is
Mxfju's Gxte Gxccvby. |
The name of the game is clearly in the orange background.
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Why the quiz cann't accept a correct answer for 23rd June? I tried to select the from drop down list, then wrote manually but the answer shows still incorrect. Maybe it's because of ' in game name?
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I didn't choose from the drop down list, but copied and pasted from the game review page. Still it wasn't approved as correct.
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Unfortunatelly, again :dislike:
And this solution has not any special character. brrrr... I want my 'piece of eight' :unsure: |
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But: there are two similar games in that series hosted on AB, you must of course choose the right one ........ |
It seems that the apostrophe is causing problems again today.
It refuses to accept the correct answer |
yep... me too... dis sucks... big time :palm:
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Yep, I also just got my correct answer (chosen from the drop-down list) ticked off as wrong .... for the nth time.
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H'mm.
How random is the quiz? Twice in the same week from the same game? Well at least it worked. |
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Also: http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Rand...er%20Generator |
a good coder would pre-shuffle the games so it woudn't pick something absolutely random. people who want something "random" almost never want really random- there always are some rules the patterns have to follow
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you're a perfect coder... He who gets the vision gets the JOB! :sneakrete: :max: :smugulon: :rolleyes: :lame: :blush: :palm: XD
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Hello!
I believe that there is an error in the quiz again; I selected the correct answer from the drop-down list, and it stated that my answer was wrong. This is what I selected: |
I also experienced the same crushing disappointment.
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If all the games with special characters causes an error when you submit your guess, then they should remove those options from the roster. Another 5 Po8 down the drain.
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Strange. Last answer seems haven't any special symbols. But failed anyway. Hmm. :|
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I feel your pain too. :whops:
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cant somebody - finally - unscrew this? you know, it really is childish, but not getting the Po8 sucks...
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Therefore this feature is a very good internal advertising platform for Abandonia, but if it remains flawed most people will lose interest and stop using it which would be a bad thing for the website in terms of game exposure. |
Hmm, after my last philosophical monologue, no one seems willing to post here anymore, so back to simpler things.
The quiz screenshot from yesterday (for Summer Games II) is exactly the same as one from World Games, therefore everyone who submitted World Games as their guess got 0 Po8 which is yet again unfair. |
Actually, the player names in the top left are different. Yes, they are otherwise the same, but that did kind of jump out.
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Once again I was marked as wrong even though I entered the right game name for today's quiz.
I am extremely disillusioned. |
I encountered the same thing. Relieved to see that I'm not the only one encountering it.
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yep, me too... odd how theres NO symbols at all in this games name... none whatsoever... *sigh*
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Same here. Wild guesses: either this... thing don't like CAPITAL letters, or long names (Spiderman failed for me too, as I remember).
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The name of the game is clearly in the screenshot.
It seems that it again is a problem with the apostrophe. I tried again using %27 but that trick doesn't work anymore. I also tried substituting Arabic numerals for the Roman numerals but that did not work either. As a side effect of this bug you can reload the page and try again as many times as you want. |
once again--- the error strikes... less like the revenge of montezuma... more like... his **** return <-- :(
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Oh! please please please can you ask the webmasters to fix the problem with the screenshot quiz when the game's name has an apostrophe.
Once again it has ruined the quiz as it refuses to accept Thank you very much. |
Or, maybe, make a command to exclude titles with the apostrophe, if that takes less work? (Though that would introduce us to less games.)
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I looked up the game name to ensure I had the right game (knew which series it was), input the name enough for the name to pop up, selected the correct name and was told that the answer was wrong.
The quiz may have an owie. :( |
You have already voted today! Unfortunately, while your answer was right, the bug in the quiz said it was wrong! You can try your luck again in 22 hours and 17 minutes when the next quiz starts! Yesterdays correct answer was SuperKarts
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yah, me too... gettin sick of this... theres not even a sign in the name that would cause this issue... (i know, theres one "-", but this does not cause issues with OTHER games...)
team, whoever... cant you finally, for good, fix this? |
Once again a problem with a game with an apostrophe in it.
Many would really appreciate that. Thank you. |
Past couple of days I have been having crappy luck with the quiz. Missed the Spot one because the only item in the drop down was Cool Spot. Anyway, yeah the quiz is borked again.
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I've got some strange issue from today.
I'm not sure it's quiz bug or whole site. What's the problem? Well... I'm opening AB site and I see I'm not logged in. In that case I can't guess in a quiz, so I try to log in. Everything loads like I'm logged in, but only forum works with my loging in. The site still says I must log in. Anybody else got this problem? P.S. I'm using Firefox 25.0.1 in Windows 7 x64. |
I am also having the same problem. I generally use the latest Firefox 25.0.1 but I tried with IE11 and Chrome 30 and was unable to log in.
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yep, same here... win7pro 64, same thing for firefox, ie11, chrome...
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I have the same problem, i can't log in at the site but i can post here in the forums. I hope a fix is imminent.
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Same here...
Hope it gets fixed! :ouch:
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I have the same problem here.
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I'm experiencing the same problem (my browser is Opera 12.16).
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Yes, authorization broken again. It was seen before... I hope, it will be fixed soon.
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So .... someone put up a new add and screwed up once again ....????
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As usual. *facepalm*
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Seems solved now, THX to who corrected the fail ...
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I have been marked as wrong again today even after choosing the correct game.
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yep, same for me... chose the answer (the only one containing the keyword...) from the dropdownmenu, had it marked as incorrect... which is weird, because only some days ago the very same game, if i remember correctly, was the answer too, and there everything worked out fine...
get this fixed, asap, pleaaaaaase. Thanks! |
The quiz wrong again! :no:
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Once again I was marked incorrectly as wrong for
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I encountered the same problem. Love that game!
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yup, faced that same issue... oddly enough, today the quiz says its been that very game...usually it refers to some TOTALLY different game the next day...
guys... can you finally fix this for good? |
I was frustratingly incorrectly marked wrong again for
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It wrong again! :headslap: !!!AGAIN!!! :wacko: :no: |
It didn't accepted the supposedly right answer.
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I had the same problem. Again.
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Today for the second day in row my correct answer would not be accepted. The game's name is clearly indicated in the upper right corner of the screenshot.
P.S. I was looking over my previous posts on this topic and I see that this exact screenshot was in the quiz of 5 months ago with the same broken result. Here. P.S.S. I know that I have written about this before and been answered however are all the 5997 screenshots on site part of the quiz? It is surprising that the exact same picture should come up again so soon. |
I'm in the same situation, and appreciate the time you all are taking on working on the problem.
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2 days in a row... just saying.
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what a way to start a new year... two days so far, two messed up quizzes...
i know, this quiz is propably the least important thing that could be, but, you will HAVE to admit that, it IS annoying... |
The most annoying is the fact that today's picture cannot be mistaken! And still! It's the devil's work I tell you!
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Well.
The quiz worked today. However the game refused to show up in the dropbox. The only game that came up was |
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something isn't right, again... :( :palm: |
Thank you for your work on the screenshot quiz; hopefully there won't be any more problems.
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What happened to the quiz?
It was a little late today. |
Are any administrators following this thread? I have seen no responses over the last few months for problems with the quiz. Should I PM?
Today's screenshot is basically the name of the game yet it was marked as wrong. Thank you |
It happens all the time and it is frustrating.
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Well you can say that today's quiz truly lives up to its name and the answer is lost :smile2:
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The screenshot was like a big giveaway, and I still got an "Incorrect" message ... and it stays. I have faith that it will be fixed, and thanks to those working on the problem.
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Unmistakable, still incorrect answer. That gives the real essence of Abandonia Quiz :D
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Instead of showing a screenshot, it says "Shot not found, sry" on the main page now.
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What Happened to the quiz?
Oh good it finally showed up. |
For some unknown reason only the second game of the series shows up in the suggestion dropdown box when the correct game is entered in the text box.
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Agreed. The same thing happens for me.
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It seems these problems sometimes happen in bunches.
Today there is the frustrating apostrophe problem again. The quiz refuses to accept |
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Seriously, it is obvious none at Above or whomever owns the site nowadays will put the needed effort in to correct the problem. Now I wonder if it would be possible to make an 'exclude' list from those faulty ones? Something the AB staff could manage? Also: it ain't a ref for the "Coding by Abovo Media Group 2010" skills ... Just saying. |
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I really hope that the main site can be fixed so that the screenshot quiz will return.
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Well, it has been about a 2 month streak of accepted answers. I hope that the problem is just with today's quiz. |
Wrong again.
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The same problem as on Feb 27 '13 with the same game
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The name of the game was misspelled in the dropdown box suggestions with two "R"s and one "S"
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Wow. It seems, it's all artifacts of old engine. :/
In database wrong name was associated with Swedish version. Even if I cannot edit name in translation at all! I re-saved Swedish translation, and extra option disappeared. Stupid engine. :/ Thank you, cdnp, it gave me more info for thinking and experimenting... :) ---addition--- Gamebase is the heap of trash. As usual. Looking from site view, it's one name for every translation, but from database side, every entry have unique name, and some haven't name at all. I checked entries manually (as I haven't direct access to database), re-saving every different name. Hopefully, it will get rid of inconsistent names. Also, I removed all apostrophes from base. Hopefully. &s are still here - I didn't touch it. Let's see, if we'll have less errors in quiz now... |
The dropdown box offered the old previous name
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I did not notice it until checking the screenshot for today's quiz but the gamepage
The last 2 screenshots are identical. |
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I was marked wrong again today for a correct answer
The same thing happened last July see here almost exactly a year ago! |
The same thing happened to me, hope it will be fixed soon, thanks!
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Quiz won't display the screenshot, instead it just says "Shot not found, sry.".
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Yep same here...weird because this time there is nothing in the title that would mess it up like a weird character...LOL
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Same problem here.
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Oh, great, on page 160 of publishing games I found another enormous black hole. >.< It seems, some game translations wasn't simply wrong named (I found that earlier). And wasn't simply missing name (I checked this too). It received title "translation" en masse! %))
Ok, I'll try to correct it too... |
I was marked as wrong today for the correct reply of:
Thank you. |
I also chose the correct name from the drop-down list, and it indicated the answer was wrong. The game is also one of my favorites!
I hope you have the chance to work on the problem; and thank you. |
I wonder if this one was grumpy because it didn't show up in the drop down list. The drop down list only showed the first game in the series.
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head post to think hi
Hi guys, i am anybody shoes fans at the start call this form.Nice to into you !
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It isn't just a particular game name; I found the correct game to today's screenshot quiz, entered the name, selecting it from the drop-down list, and was notified that it was wrong. There is a problem with the quiz, which will hopefully be fixed when the staff are able to do so.
This was what I entered: |
I think today's quiz is corrupt as well:
Any system errors? Because it's not the first nowadays |
Well, there are numerous system problems, actually, Diamondfist and piroklasztit.
1. No one knows how exactly quiz works. And moreover, no one can fiddle with it's algorythms. Well, programmers at former Studentis probably can, but they are not very eager to answer. But supposedly, it takes games from full published games database. 2. Unfortunately, site code is in the such state that it's virtually impossible to found anything in current site admin interface. Dave seems had much understanding of it, and maybe on his level it's more transparent. But for me, on the lower access level, it's only neverending lists, with the very limited abilities to edit them. And Dave is too rarely on site nowadays. :( 3. Each game can exist in 3 forms: - "Original", English game; - Translated entry with it's own individual name (it supposedly match with "original", but actually it's not always the case); - "Orphaned" game that exist in database, but not connected with the "original". I have no idea from what of this lists quiz pulls names. But if it's all three, in case of any discrepancy results can be weird. :( 4. Some symbols (basically, special ones, like ":", or "/", or quotes itself) confirmed as non-recognizable by quiz, even if they exist in the name. :/ They was removed from the names, supposedly, just for quiz purpose. So, as you see, sources of the errors can be numerous. I am trying my best to remove what I can... but my abilities are limited. Sorry for that. |
Smiling Spectre, thank you for taking the time to explain that. I don't mean to complain; It's such a cool quiz, and a lot of members are passionate about it. I know how much staff is here, and it is a lot to manage, so I have a lot of respect for the people here. :)
Today's quiz had a pretty long name, but I guessed correctly, and I didn't select from the drop-down choice(s) just in case (probably no difference). :unsure: |
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Well, its been a long time since the last problem but I was marked wrong again today for the correct response.
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Hello again.
It is not an error exactly, however the screenshot is from a nonexistent game. It comes from your April Fools 2012 Game entry |
Well, its been more than 6 months since the last problem but I was marked wrong again today for the correct response.
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Thank you for fixing the quiz! :OK:
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Well, its been more than 8 months since the last problem but I was marked wrong again today for the correct response.
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The quiz wrong again today! :(
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wut tae fooooock! been ages since this happened, but today... the solution was flagged as wrong :/
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Well, its been more than 3 months since the last problem but I was marked wrong again today for the correct response.
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I have the same problem. The answer appears on the drop-down selection without the apostrophe, and is the one I select, but it still marked it incorrect.
So maybe the quiz has a lil' oopsie-woopsie! :3: |
Actually, with most previous cases it's exactly apostrophe is the source of the problem, so I removed all of them. *sigh*
I'll try to dig deeper. |
seeing you guys are on it as of now... great, cause i, too, "can" report the correct answer being marked as wrong. selected the title from the dropdown after entering "game gallery"
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The quiz worked for me today (no apostrophe), and I wanted to thank you for looking into the problem, thank you! Hopefully, it isn't anything too complicated.
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I have been marked wrong incorrectly today for the game in the screenshot quiz.
September 09, 2014 October 22, 2015 May 7,2016 and Today. I have written about it each time and the problem does not seem to have been solved yet. |
If at least this one game is a problem child, maybe the powers that be could check what the answer is supposed to be and and cross check with the database. I remember long ago that someone found a problem with special characters in the database. Maybe there is something of a similar nature going on here that is causing the recent failures.
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yeah, yet again, the demon of "wrong answer" strikes again... for no apparent reason at all. no apostrophes, no signs, just plain, stupid, letters... sheesh. :mhh:
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My personal suspicion is that sometimes quiz addresses the translations instead main game, that is usually invisible, as main game and translation have matched names. Catch is that for some time after site transition all translations was named "Translation" instead game name, so failed to be found. It's additionally could be complicated if translation is not marked as the translation, as in that case it's quite impossible to detect. Dave fixed a lot of such errors, but I haven't tools or knowledge he have. So right now I am processing endless list of "Translation" titles, fixing it as it must be... Unfortunately, I have no endless free time for that, so I am doing it for about year, and still have about 30 pages of such titles before me (50 games per page). I hope, I'll finish this before new year... and then we'll had to puzzle about other possible reason. ;)
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@smiling spectre: wow... f*** that sounds annoying... thanks for you effort!!!
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@smiling spectre
Thank you so much for all your hard work. Would it please be possible to prioritize the checking for the following 3 games that have been a problem multiple times over the years in the screenshot quiz: 7th Legion 1000 Miglia Aces of the Pacific Or maybe these 3 games can be removed from quiz until they can be fixed. Thank you. |
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I haven't access to the database directly. I even haven't access to some admin functions on the user level - for example, I cannot search for the any game in the base for all its entries (except obvious, language-dependant search, that is main functionality, but exactly there everything look all right). I _can_ search for any game and edit it, but in fact base gives me only one, seemingly random selected entry if game have several. For example, named Aces of the Pacific I checked yesterday - and admin search always returns Portugal version. *sigh* So I had to use backdoors and indirect fixes. For example, named "Translation" names can be fixed by entering to edit mode of the correspondent translated entry and saving it. But all three games named by you haven't anything suspicious in the linked translations (there still can be more unlinked, theoretically speaking, that I still didn't access). But as you can see, all of them shares the one interesting property: they are relatively new on site (20 000+ name entry number) and names are at the start of alphabet. On the other hand, there are also others that share the same property - both 007 games, for example, - so maybe it's only coincidence. Base in the awful state under the hood anyway. For example, every translated entry have "state" field (that can be "none, in translation, finished") - but it's cannot be accessed through main interface long ago, so 90% of translated games actually have "In progress" state. I hate long-standing bug that false connecting English and translated bases of tags, so in result after correcting English entry all connected translated entries lost their tags. (And my initial efforts on site was to sort out tag system in hope to this bug auto-fixed... well, didn't work. :/ So - I'll keep trying, but do not hold your breath too much. :) |
Well, still no fix for
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I have a suggestion, Spectre and CDNP. How about renaming the titles of the games in question? You could, for example, rename from 1000 Miglia to Thousand Miglia; from 007 to Double Zero Seven, etc. :) |
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By the way, I found more titles with the “&” that can cause quiz error: • 1830 Railroads & Robber Barons; • Command & Conquer; • Skull & Crossbones (already mentioned). |
I'll check them, Mystvan, thank you. :)
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Yes, Sir. You are welcome. By the way, I found more games with “&”. I will post new information if I find the games that are supposed with bugs here in this thread in order to centralize the information and avoid confusion. |
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I finally got the full List of games (Phew! Whew!) whose titles contain symbols “&” and “'”: • 1830 Railroads & Robber Barons; • Asterix & Obelix; • Command & Conquer; • Dragon's Lair - Escape from Singes Castle; • North & South; • Ping & Kookys Cuckoo Zoo; • Prince of Persia 2 - The Shadow & The Flame; • Quarky & Quaysoos Turbo Science; • Sid & Als Incredible Toons; • Skull & Crossbones; • Tom & Jerry Cat-astrophe. I am sorry for bothering you :( and thank you for the hard work. :OK: Happy Easter! :hello: |
I have not much free time right now (and I wonder how I missed all this games in first time), but thank you, Mystvan! I'll fix them as soon as I'll have more time.
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Unfortunately, the quality of post-Kosta dropped when Abandonia became part of a company above any suspicion... :whops: They are kind of the “One Above All” Admins e other Staff members. So there is nothing they (Admins) can do... They are powerless... :dunno:
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I had the same problem with the quiz, though I am grateful to those that addressed the login issue. Thank you!
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15 PoE lost... Forever!
So far, I’ve already lost 15 PoE due to System error (I mean, the System considered my answers correct, but I still could not get the PoE :whops: :sick:): 04/18/2017 (Deep Space Drifter), 04/23/2017 (Adventure in Serenia) and 06/03/2017 (today - Operation Frog). :nono: :protest: :sick:
Well, the only way is for us to settle for the situation since “One Above All” has other priorities... :palm: :picard: :headslap: And besides, this is better than losing all the PoE... *chills* :hairpull: :wall: My only consolation is that Bonk has not yet managed to reduce the PoE gap. Phew! Whew! |
Yesterday’s Daily Quiz Screenshot has not started yet... The Quiz delayed for the first time the unbelievable 20 minutes. Sometimes delayed a little, but never for so long. :mhh:
How mysterious... Does it have a Cyber_Bonk’s :kuger: [go(l)d]finger on it? Well, if that is the case, the Poke-man :poke2: is still ahead of Cyber_Bonk :kuger:! Rock & Roll! :rocks: |
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Yes, I can confirm that a peace treaty was signed. Of course Mystvan and Bonk will continue to fight for PoE, but now we fight together.
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Where is the Living Tribunal to judge the cosmic (or comic? :bleh1:) disputes? :wacko: :hypno: :hypno2: |
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I regret that Tseki must have deleted his (old) account on Abandonia. I hope my jokes have not led him to make a radical decision either. In relation to Marg(arete) aka Iron Lady, she is stronger than you think. She has 03 sacred and holy artifacts: Staff of Power :bruce: (which makes her the most powerful Staff member), Lance(lot) :link: (the legendary Lance that repels any kind of attack) and Iron Fist :boxing: (more powerful than the Iron Fist from Marvel Comics!). But if you are still in (S)pain, remember Rafael Nadal, the King of Clay. Even with stomachache, he continues to play vigorously and defeat his opponents by moaning and screaming in (S)pain. It reminds me of the best Brazilian Tennis player of all time Gustavo Kuerten (maybe Master of Rafael Nadal?). I think if they (Kuerten and Nadal) both played Tennis doubles, we would have a beautiful duet in (S)pain. ♩♪♫♬ :drunk: :serenade: :dance: ♬♫♪♩ :drool: :blush: :love: :sick: :sos: “Ooerrah. Oooerrh. Erraharoo. Oooorh. Make, Bruticus, hung(a)ry! Bruticus, devastate, Devastator... (H)Ugh! Stomachache!” :sick: :sos: Now, if you want to know the reason that many former members left the Abandonia perhaps because after Kosta ceases to be the owner of the site, Abandonia was gradually abandoned by the new owner. How good would it be if the company Abovo [from Swe(et)-den] treated Abandonia with more love, care, affection and dedication... :abandonia!: :loveab: Or maybe because they’ve been getting busy over the years. Who knows? :dunno: |
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Well, this is the life and there is nothing we can do to solve this annoying quiz bug. The way is for us to settle and move on. :headslap: :sick: The strange thing is that this game bug both afflicts Poke-man :poke2: and Cyber-Bonk :kuger:. Why does it happen to us alone, eh? :what: Unless there are more members who have not demonstrated their dissatisfaction with this quiz bug yet. :unsure: |
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But you also gained 11 PoE on 07/16/2017, if it wasn't from answering the quiz it was from other sources, so don't complain. :) |
Hellp! Hellp! Whoa! Eeek! Poke-man is in danger!
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It happened again. :sucks: :lame: Could not you lend your Cyber powers to me? Or use your Chair-man :chair: position to hellp me get out of this mess? Hellp! Hellp! Whoa! Eeek! Poke-man :poke2: is in danger! :sos: |
What are you talking about? I'm keeping track of your PoE as well as of mine and everything seems normal. At the moment yo have 19116 PoE, yesterday you had 19110, so you got the usual daily share of PoE. In the last weeks I didn't see a single day where you got less than 6 PoE per day.
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I need your Cyber Powers to get those PoE back. In addition to your Chair-man :chair: authority to authorize this. :/ EDIT: Wow. In total I lost 25 PoE due to the bugs on Abandonia. I need the GrandMaster Spectre(man) :borg: to checkmate the King of bugs. |
Ah, so you got additional sources of PoE. Ok, that explains that.
Maybe your quiz errors are somehow connected to that? I have no idea what it could be. And I am not the Chairman, that's Geezer (look at his profile picture). :smile2: |
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Finally, the bug was missing me :eww: and gave me 0 PoE when I correctly answered the quiz. :sick: :lame: After finishing the quiz period today, 09/08/2017, I will edit it later to reveal the name of the game in question (Escape from Delirium). I know Cyber-Bonk :kuger: also had problems with the quiz two days ago... Thankfully I have a certain advantage over Cyber-Bonk. :kuger: I will activate my Fire-wall to avoid Cyber-Bonk’s approach! |
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I also made the same mistake yesterday, but I declined to comment so as not to disrupt the purpose of the quiz. Generally, I am very careful, but sometimes we falter in our methods. :( Well, we lost 5 precious PoE, but it is enough that we do not do the same again. :OK: |
I hate Bugs!
In order to facilitate understanding, I will make a more organized, systematized and methodical list that the Abandonia bugs have lost my deserved PoE for the correct answer to the Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz:
• 04/18/2017, Deep Space Drifter; • 04/23/2017, Adventure in Serenia; • 06/03/2017, Operation Frog; • 07/16/2017, Pirates!; • 07/17/2017, Golden Axe; • 09/08/2017, Escape from Delirium; • 09/11/2017, Unreal; • 09/22/2017, Police Quest 4 - Open Season. |
Two days in a row I answered correctly on games that don't have any funny characters or can have different names than what I chose from drop-down menu and the system told me I was wrong.
Some new bugs? :mhh: |
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Now, on the other hand, my PoE losses although I have answered correctly is much more frustrating and exasperating. :headslap: :palm: :picard: :hairpull: :wall: Especially when you are disputing with the Chair-man :chair: (Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!) Cyber-Bonk :kuger:, who has also had the misfortune of having the same problem a few times. :sick: The reason is because the system considers your answer correct, but it does not give you 5 PoE. And this is not democratic at all, as it affects only a few users. I cannot afford to relax and make slips or suffer unexplained bugs because Chair-man :chair: (Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!) Cyber-Bonk :kuger: should never be underestimated. |
What I was suspecting, now I’ve confirmed through testing. :mhh:
Dear Cyber-Bonk :kuger:. I have analyzed and finally deduced 4 steps to avoid the problem of not earning 5 PoE even answering correctly and the system accepting the answer differently from the Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz error. :sick: |
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Since the last post a month ago, I tried it and managed to avoid the “blessed” error of not crediting 5 PoE even confirming that the answer to the Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz was correct. :sucks: It is a totally different and much more unfair situation from the one in which the cdnp and other users complained about not recognizing the correct answer to the Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz. :sick: The curious thing is that only myself and Chair-man Cyber-Bonk complained about this error. Have they ever had this problem or did they not care that they did not earn 5 PoE? :suspicious: Well, as long as I can avoid this bug, even if the technique is complicated, :hairpull: I am well relieved. :headslap: |
Unfortunately, today’s Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz did not accept the correct answer and so most likely the other Quiz Players will not earn 5 PoE. :headslap: :palm:
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Is quiz bugged for everyone else also?
It's not reseting. It shows the same screen for the past 3 days for me with last 2 days appearing as already solved. |
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Quiz may be messed up today (5-16-18)
The answer was 'Aces of the Pacific'. It's not like I'm giving anything away ... anybody reading this certainly had the same issue ... LOL
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This is one of the games for which the screenshot quiz has problems. It has been written about earlier in this thread many times.
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Greetings from Poke-man, :poke2: Bonk! Bonk! Chair-man :chair: Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Cyber-Bonk! :kuger:
Congratulations on your incredible achievements. You’ve passed the 22,000 PoE mark! :omg: :o :kosta: Now you will be ranked 6th in the PoE Ranking very soon while you will be the undisputed leader in the Quiz Players Ranking. You would be sort of the Djoko, Federer, Nadal (moaning and screaming in Spain!) of the Players Quiz! I still have to reach In-Betweener :braveheart: Unicron TotalAnarchy even though I am the vice leader among the Quiz Players and eating your dust. Cough! Cough! |
Uh-oh! Quiz Error again!
Unfortunately, today’s Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz did not accept the correct answer and so most likely the other Quiz Players will not earn 5 PoE. :sick:
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Arghhh! Quiz Error again!
Uh-oh! Quiz Error again! :headslap: :palm:
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I made sure the screenshot was for the right game, went to the game's page, typed the first part of the title and selected the correct game - incorrect message. The quiz has an oopsie-woopsie.
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Yes, I even remembered the theme for the screenshot, but didn't look closely enough, and got it wrong. I checked and saw the screenshot for two games, but didn't know there was a third in that series with the same screenshot. For those three games, those should either not be chosen, or maybe only one of those screenshots should be used from that series of games. If anyone has any suggestions, I wouldn't mind hearing them. I still love the quiz, and appreciate the staff having it here. |
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The difference of the other two quizzes would be similar to the Game of 7 Errors. There are small and subtle differences, which unfortunately was not the case today’s quiz. :no: It would be impossible to distinguish what would be the correct answer from today’s quiz. You would be only 50% likely to guess correctly this one and the next times it appears again. :palm: I know it i not very promising and encouraging, but there is nothing we can do about it... :dunno: |
For all the times the quiz poops itself, this is one that it really can't be faulted for. Having identical or nearly identical screenies in different games is not it's fault.
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Well, theoretically speaking, screenshots always can be replaced... But I am not a person to do that.
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This doesn't make sense... I had suffice time to guess for one of the screenshots. Not only that, but it apparently counted my attempt to guess for the next voting day. :picard:
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Ugh! Quiz Error again... :headslap: :palm: :sick:
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Same problem here. This is the first time that I have encountered a problem with this text based game.
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There are only two such games on site, and I select wrong one, so I cannot confirm or deny this, sorry.
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I typed the name and selected the correct game from the drop-down list, and it still said my answer was incorrect. I even found the game page with the correct screenshot. I hope it can be fixed, though I feel a bit left down, but it's OK.
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*sigh* Quiz Error again... :headslap: :palm: *shrug* :dunno:
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Yes,error again.
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I noticed that sometimes the Abandonia incorrectly informs the correct answer to the Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz... :dunno:
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Just to clarify my previous post: I wanted to say that after finishing the time of answering the Quiz of the Previous Day (Yesterday’s Quiz), Abandonia usually correctly informs the correct answer of the previous Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz... :dunno:
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Not actually an error, but today's screen is the same for 2 different games. So, even if you know the correct answer chances are 50% you'll pick the wrong one (which I did, of course). :picard:
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There is a way you can tell, it was like a 'Tell the differences" puzzle but REALLY subtle ... the clue is in the text on the right ;)
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Today's is a tough one. Good luck!!! :bleh1:
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Or in other words, yesterday was the stick :whip: blow: for some of us poor Quiz Players. Today, it give us the carrot. :clap: |
I entered the right answer for the 4/22/19 quiz, even selected the name from the drop-down selection. It was still marked wrong. I chose the original one, not the remake. No special characters used.
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I do not believe it will be fixed as we wish. *sigh* The only way is to try our luck on the next quiz. *shrug* |
And again, 1000 Miglia fails to be recognized... have fun, everyone. Anyone know whats wrong with that one? I understood the special character-ones, but this one? anyone got an idea?
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Sorry, no idea. Otherwise I would try to fix it.
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It would appear today's is another. Is there an entire list for correct titles that fail the quiz?
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Regrettably, today’s Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz has a bug with error message again.
Well, the best way is to hope that errors like this will be much less frequent from now on. :sick: :headslap: :palm: |
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The quiz is finally back.
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Ah, looks like it's still remnants of whatever the issue was with the server earlier this week. The quiz didn't move onto the next title/game/quiz.
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Yes, I also confirmed yesterday and today in this broken Abadonia Daily Screenshot Quiz of yesterday and today. I selected for both alternatives with the same disastrous result, because yesterday’s and today’s quiz are the same blessed Screenshot. :sick: :headslap: :palm: :hairpull: :wall: I wonder if this will persist like this, how long it will persist and when everything will return to normal... :dunno: It even seems like a sick bad joke... :sick: |
Well, if the captcha broke being able to write reviews (and that hasn't been fixed yet), I wouldn't have too much hope in the quiz being fixed. Functionality of the site has been deteriorating.
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Wow, it's really borked. Same screenshot for three days and it says I've already voted. I hope it gets fixed. I love this site.
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Well, I fixed double name, just to be sure. But I doubt it will fix the quiz. You need Dave. Or at least Japo. PM him?
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unbelievably - it still DOES work. day #002... a.w.e.s.o.m.e!!!!
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Ugh. Interesting. If double name have _this_ effect, it's extremely strange... I still think it's coincidence!
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It seems as if the gear is no longer stuck, I guess... :mighty: :roll: And we Quiz Players are very happy. For me, it was the best checkmate of yours! :clap: |
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Hmm, confirmed, underdog, it's really different (I suspect another bad name). Thank I have no idea why it behave this way. Thank you for the info anyway!
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Ugh! Quiz Error strikes Quiz Players again! :sick:
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Ugh! I just hope the today’s Abandonia Daily Screenshot Quiz does not get stuck again in the same screenshot of this damn Game like it happened quite recently for several days! :sick: Like today’s Screenshot, this Quiz Error gives the impression that Quiz Player is falling in a bottomless cliff / pit... Kind of Falling off a Cliff dream? :dunno: :sick: |
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Fortunately, the Quiz System rarely shows the previous day’s Quiz answer incorrectly... :dunno: That’s what happened on 11/06/2019 and also on 12/12/2019. :headslap: :palm:
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There's an issue with the quiz with the child and the Stop sign screenshot; I wanted to make a pun, but it would involve part of the answer. The quiz also resets if you click 'back' then navigate back to the home page. The answer isn't coming up when typed either, missing three letters standing for an abbreviation.
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Ugh... :sick: Looks like the last Quiz of 2019 (Yesterday) was a complete fiasco... :lame:
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I have good and bad news: • The bad news is that there are more identical Screenshots... • The good news is that there are only 2 x 2 (=4) Screenshots that are identical. That means you only have a 50% chance of getting the correct Quiz answer in just 04 Screenshots out of thousands... Unless there are more identical Screenshots that I am not aware of... :dunno: :what: While the other Screenshots are similar but not identical. It would be something like the Seven Errors Game. You just need to identify the subtle differences of certain Screenshots. |
Well, today's reports back incorrect. I'll be curious to know what the "right" answer is.
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I don't know what happened with today's quiz; I know the screenshot like the back of my hand, and even selected the correct answer from the drop-down list ... and it still said it was incorrect. This is one of my favorite games, so I'm fuming more than a little bit. I hope nobody else had this issue. (Also, the screenshot got me all "exciterated" over the game), but I still selected the right answer. :(
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This does not seem to be the first time that I have had a problem with this particular screenshot. I see that it happened also in 2014 here
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Same here. Selected from the drop-down list and backing out, going back on the site didn't work either.
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I think that the quiz has a li'l boo-boo; I'm answering correctly, even with the exact wording that appears when using the Search, but it marks as incorrect, and resets when you back out to the prior web page and return using the site name when typed (not using forward). Thanks to whomever is working on the issue(s).
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Here's a new one. The automatic fill is not working for me. It's been off for the past couple of but now it just doesn't work. :(
EDIT: NM, the page is just taking forever to load. Not having this problem on other sites. Thanks to everyone that continues work on this site. I still come here every day or so and appreciate your work. |
It never works until _everything_ loads. My guess is that filling script is the very last there. :(
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I guess I'm a crap forum poster nowadays since I only come here to see if cdnp has posted about a broken daily quizshot. :smile2:
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I have the same problem. Also, I thought no one was supposed to put the answer in a spoiler text.
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It's not just a rip off, it an obvious one. xD
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Well for this quiz error I am getting unlimited tries but I cannot find the right combination for the game
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Well, game is pulled from the database, so if system guess the name, you must use it. I used... and failed too. I fear, it's apostrophe again, cdnp. I removed it from most of games, just for sake of quiz. Just as test, I can remove it there too, but it needs to confirm by anyone, if it worked.
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and today, another apostrophe in the games title making the (correct) answer a wrong one... seems there's a dragon dwelling who guards the apostrophe.. maybe dirk (or spectre?) can free this classic of interactive movie-dom from the error?
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Hopefully Smiling Spectre can fix it again like for Dragon's Breath. There were originally 2 apostrophes in the name of the game.
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In before cdnp! Today's quiz is poop.
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Sorry, as real Admins stated, game downloads are tied to "correct" game name. So no renames from me anymore.
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Well. It has been 6 months since the last error.
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Oh man!
Twice in one week. And they will not even be fixed as it messes up the downloads. Well at least you get to keep trying as many times as you want but it will never accept the answer. |
Soon as I saw a particular character, I knew exactly what to expect. I was not let down.
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Looks like there's one for today... double checked before submitting and it came up incorrect.
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Looks like there's an error today.
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hey folks... has everybody just given up on the forum? (yeah, i'd understand... just curious)
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