CATCH UP WITH JESUS wraps around a red ketchup bottle and two tomatoes. That is the whole design. No scripture
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Hard First, Easy Last: How Quizbowl’s Pyramidal Tossup Pays Players for Knowing More, Sooner
The problem: a buzzer question that only tests speed Start with the failure mode. You write a one-line question. Two
Continue readingThree One-Shot Exits: How ‘Millionaire’ Priced Its Lifelines as Three Different Kinds of Information
A contestant is stuck. The question is on the board, four answers are glowing, and the show has to offer
Continue readingThe Double-Reading Clue: What ‘Yes I Can Drive A Stick’ Teaches About Answer Ambiguity
The hat is cream, engraved-style, pointed, with a curved brim and a square buckle. Above it, in serif capitals: YES
Continue readingThe Right-Pointing Arrow: What ‘Tweedle Dum / I’m With Dee’ Teaches About Clue Construction
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. Two lines of distressed type, a right-pointing arrow, and
Continue readingThe Left-Pointing Arrow: What ‘Tweedle Dee / I’m With Dum’ Teaches About Clue Construction
Two lines of text. A left-pointing arrow. That is the entire design. TWEEDLE DEE sits above I’M WITH DUM, and
Continue readingThe Element-Tile Pun: What ‘I Wear This Shirt Periodically’ Teaches About Clue Construction
Four tiles. Atomic numbers stacked in the corner of each. 53 I, 74 W, 22 Ti, 16 S. Read the
Continue readingThe Design Sin of ‘Almost Right’: Why Near-Miss Feedback in Trivia Games Needs to Die
You’ve just typed FRANCO into a quiz app. The answer was FRANCIS FRANCO. Red flash. Correct answer revealed. Next question
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