Quiz Help!

[vikZ]

Hey everyone, first I want to say, I'm sorry napb that asking for help on this forum is probably not what you want. I'm asking here because well I have a weird problem and I'm hoping a curator here can help me out.

Anyway this is a link to my quiz (still unreleased) and here's my dilemma:

Basically the quiz is played out like the game Mastermind. There are a few Mastermind quizzes out there but they're all against the clock, while I made one that is based having a fixed number of guesses. When someone guesses incorrectly, a code will pop up that basically tells you how close you are to getting it right.

There are 12 guesses, so I set up wrong answers for each code for each guess (everything that sets off 1 black circle is put into 1 answer. And then I made one that corresponds to each guess number, so basically there are 12 replicates of the wrong answer).
The problem is when you make your first guess, you'll get a code (let's say one black and one white). Now for all subsequent guesses, the only wrong answer that will work is the one that has the same code as the first wrong answer guessed. So if on the first guess I got one black and one white, then the only wrong answer that will activate for all subsequent guesses are the ones that set off the one black and one white code. This problem makes the game pretty much unplayable. If my explanation is hard to understand, try playing the game yourself. (Without giving away the answer to the quiz, YRRY and RYYR both give one black and one white. Or you can tinker around with other patterns)

Has anyone dealt with this before? Is there a way around this?
I found one solution, and that's to force answer in order. It works pretty nicely but it takes away the nice feature of having every answer pop up when the correct answer is guessed. So I'm hoping for something else.
It's just a really odd problem because the only wrong answer that works is dependent on the first guess.

[MovieGuru]

How do you have the data?

Is it like:

1      ●○/rgyr/ryyr/gyry etc       ee
1      ●●○/ggyr/bryg/bbry...      ee
1       ○○/bbyb/rrrr/byby...        ee

with the ●○ always the first possible wrong answer?

[MovieGuru]

Edit: Nevermind, I just realized you said that it all depends on what you get as the first wrong answer (which I just tested)... and boy that is bizarre. I've never run into that... and I think you'll need to ask a developer

[vikZ]

It's like:


1  No rocks/RRRR         ee
1  ○ / rrry/rrrg/etc.          ee
1  ○○ / ryry/ryrg/etc.      ee
.
.
.
etc.
1 ●●●/yyyb/ygyy/etc.  ee
2  No rocks/RRRR      ee
2  ○ / rrry/rrrg/etc.        ee

etc.
.
.
12 ●●●/yyyb/ygyy/etc.  ee


I used ●○ as an example, but the only wrong answer that'll work is the first guess, no matter what the first guess is.

[vikZ]

I just sent a bug report so maybe that'll get something. But yeah it's pretty bizarre.

[teddy109711]

Maybe it's because you can only trigger one wrong answer at a time. Maybe you've activated every bonus answer, but only the first one shows because you can't trigger more than one at once. Think about it, if you put in an acceptable response to every bonus answer it should go off and the whole quiz should end. So I don't see a way it could work with out forcing answers in order.

I might not make any sense right now, but do you see what I'm trying to get at?

[vikZ]

That's not it teddy, but your post actually made me figure out what the problem is!

So there's a wrong answer for each code for each guess. When I make my first guess (let's say I get 1 white), then that bonus answer goes off. Now the problem is that none of the other bonus answers went off. So if I make a guess with any other code (say 1 black), it will try a bonus answer at the top. So it will try to activate the wrong answer for guess number 1 for the code. I already have a wrong answer activated for the 1st guess though so nothing will happen. Only the wrong answer that's activated from the 1st guess will be 'bypassed' to the 2nd guess bonus answer.

So it looks like I'll have to force order...

[MovieGuru]

Very clever of you!

More importantly, is your icon a picture of you singing karaoke to a song that goes "Fa fa fa fa fa be run run run run run"  ??? :]

[vikZ]

Haha yeah it is!
The song is Psycho Killer. The lyrics are better than the picture makes it out to be :P