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Hi all,

 

I have an idea for a mystery hide of some sort.  In order to learn about a particular thing I want to create an online quiz where people attempting the quiz have to get a certain number of questions right (researchable online, but still somewhat tricky). Should they succeed in this task the final cache coordinates should be given.  Where would I go online to create a quiz like this?  

 

Thanks in advance

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I don't know any generic "quiz generator" web site. While I have solved a few "online quiz"-type puzzle caches, these were always built by the COs themselves in their own webspace.

 

However, if you only have a non-sequential set of questions (i.e., the questions are independent, and no question relies on the answer to a preceding one), you might have a look at this geochecker:

 

https://www.gc-apps.com/en/

 

It's quite popular in my region (southern Germany). It's a bit like Certitude (i.e., you can also ask for words/phrases instead of only coordinates), but supports more than one question, so that the final coordinates are only revealed if you get all answers right. You can fine-tune the support you want to give to the players in case at least one answer is wrong - e.g. just say "Nope, there's one or more error", or "There are <x> wrong answers" or even point out exactly which answers are wrong.

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7 hours ago, baer2006 said:

It's a bit like Certitude (i.e., you can also ask for words/phrases instead of only coordinates), but supports more than one question, so that the final coordinates are only revealed if you get all answers right. You can fine-tune the support you want to give to the players in case at least one answer is wrong - e.g. just say "Nope, there's one or more error", or "There are <x> wrong answers" or even point out exactly which answers are wrong.

 

Great! This is exactly what I was looking for!

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On 10/31/2024 at 6:14 AM, baer2006 said:

I don't know any generic "quiz generator" web site. While I have solved a few "online quiz"-type puzzle caches, these were always built by the COs themselves in their own webspace.

 

However, if you only have a non-sequential set of questions (i.e., the questions are independent, and no question relies on the answer to a preceding one), you might have a look at this geochecker:

 

https://www.gc-apps.com/en/

 

It's quite popular in my region (southern Germany). It's a bit like Certitude (i.e., you can also ask for words/phrases instead of only coordinates), but supports more than one question, so that the final coordinates are only revealed if you get all answers right. You can fine-tune the support you want to give to the players in case at least one answer is wrong - e.g. just say "Nope, there's one or more error", or "There are <x> wrong answers" or even point out exactly which answers are wrong.

Do you have a GC number for a couple of those caches so that I may look at an example of how the checker works with a multi answer puzzle cache? Thank you.

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58 minutes ago, runninbear1 said:

Do you have a GC number for a couple of those caches so that I may look at an example of how the checker works with a multi answer puzzle cache? Thank you.

Only German ones, e.g. my own https://coord.info/GCABCDC .

 

But you should get the idea: 5 questions, you enter an answer for each one (can be a "dummy" like "???"), and submit. I configured it so that you get the number of correct answers at the top (e.g. "0 out of 5 are correct"). When all 5 are correct, you get a "completion message", which in my case simply shows the final coordinates. As usual, after 10 unsuccessful tries, you are blocked for a while (1 hr, IIRC).

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I've never done this before but I just thought of this now. On certitude, you can have their be specific responses for incorrect answers. So you could do...

Question 1: What color is an apple? You put red in the certitude, and it tells you: 

"Question 2: Who was the first US president|?" You put george washington into the SAME certitude, and it tells you

"Question 3: What is 1+1?" You put 2 into the same certitude and it tells you the coordinates!

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