It doesn't really mean much of anything. We just like the sound of it.

Yes! Check out your own personal stats page. You will need to have an account and be logged in for us to keep track of your results. It's easy to create an account. As a note, results will only be recorded for games that you either:

1. Get all the answers right
2. Run out of time
3. Click the 'Give up' button

If you leave a game page before any of these things happen, your results will not be recorded. If there are any comments or suggestion you have for the game tracking feature, please let us know. Thanks!

Yes! First you must create a unique handle on your profile page. After that, make sure you check the box to make your stats public.

You'll now be able to access your statistics at:

http://www.sporcle.com/user/(your newly created handle)

If there are any comments or suggestion you have for the game tracking feature, please let us know. Thanks!

The Daily Dose is your destination for quick diversions every day. Within The Daily Dose, you'll find three games of the same type.

The Missing Word is a fill-in-the-blank style quiz that spans topics and categories. The Word Ladder is a quiz that challenges users to connect together a chain of words by changing one letter at a time.

The Minute Morsel is a sampling from previously featured games.

New games of these types will be made available every day.

So come back tomorrow and the next day to try to find new Missing Words, climb a Word Ladder or tackle a quick challenge from the Sporcle archives with the Minute Morsel.

If this happens, do the following: When you are on a game page where the timer isn't working, try reloading the page (sometimes you have to do a shift-reload). This should make the timer work again for that all other games. If you are still having problems, just drop us a line.

The Quizmaster Score is a score given to a user based on game contributions. The higher the score, the greater the participation the user has had in the Sporcle community.

The score is based on a number of factors including (but not limited to): the number of games created since the public launch of Sporcle's game creation tools, number of times those games have been played, the rating attributed to games by other users, and the number of times games have been favorited. The score can fluctuate up and down each day as games are created, played, rated, and favorited.

Click here to see a leaderboard of the top 100 users.

Sporcle Editors are usually selected from the top quiz creators and commenters on the site. Their duties include looking for the top quizzes within their category for Editor's Picks, making sure published quizzes are up to date, tagging quizzes and making updates to published quizzes. Sporcle is always keeping an eye out for the next great editor, so keep making great games and helpful comments, and we may contact you when we have an opening.

A curator is someone we believe is an expert in a particular subcategory and gains the ability to make 'curator picks' that show up on our subcategory pages. To apply to be a curator please drop us a note at our feedback page.

Yes! As a matter of fact, we have both. You can also follow us through our blog and on Reddit. Check it out!

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Sporcle Blog
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Rankings reflect usage of Sporcle from each school from the previous week.

The formula to determine points is slightly simpler than the BCS, taking into consideration metrics like accounts registered, games played, and challenges won. Sporcle might change the formula from time to time, just like the BCS.

Want your school to move up this list? Just register for a free account, set your school on your profile page, and play lots of games. That's it! Oh, and get your friends to do the same!

You don't need one to play on Sporcle but here are five reasons why you want one.

Having a Sporcle account lets you:

Track your game plays, see your best scores, and challenge your friends

Comment on and rate games

Follow users and see how you compare to your friends

Create up to 11 games per month to share with your friends or the world

Get email alerts for new and popular games

And hey, it's free and easy, so go ahead.

"Connect with Facebook" is a feature from Facebook that lets users use Facebook's login system on external websites such as Sporcle. Instead of creating a Sporcle account by entering your email address and password, you can just click on "Connect with Facebook" and everything is done automatically.

Sorry, it is not possible to change your username.

We can't imagine why anybody would want to do this, but if you do, drop us a line and we'll take care of that for you.

When you have signed into Sporcle, click Settings at the top-right toolbar. Here you can add/remove Sporcle to your Facebook Timeline by clicking the checkbox next to 'Add Sporcle to Facebook Timeline'. Note: Make sure that you have connected your Sporcle account to your Facebook account by clicking the Connect with Facebook button.

A variety of factors are involved in what is published on Sporcle.com. Here are some factors that we consider:

1. The quiz idea should be original.
2. It should include a valid source (if applicable).
3. Fits into our current cycle of quizzes.
4. It has been well received as a contributed quiz.
5. The quiz is topical.

You will need to use a media hosting site such as youtube.com or another related hosting service. Use a video editing program such as 'Windows Movie Maker' wherein you can import the audio file and add an image (preferably the Sporcle logo - get it here -) and export it as a video and then upload on youtube. Copy the embed code and place it into the Embed code box on the 'Game Info' tab of the game creation tools page.

Be sure to review the terms of service of these hosting sites to ensure that embedding content in a 3rd party site does not violate their terms. Violation of terms will result in your quiz being removed.

Image quizzes like you see here - are created by the Sporcle Admins and involve a couple of odd tricks and formatting in Photoshop or another image editing program.

By and large the user generated tools don't support image quizzes of this type. However, we have provided a workaround. You will need to use a media hosting site such as photobucket.com, tinypic.com, youtube.com, or another related hosting service. Create your image or media file and upload it to one of these services. Note the URL, you will need it to enter into the Embed code box on Sporcle.com.

In the create game page on Sporcle, add the image, video, or other form of multimedia to your quiz by entering:
<img src="http://www.somehostingwebsite.com/image.jpg">
into the Embed code box.

Be sure to review the terms of service of these hosting sites to ensure that embedding content in a 3rd party site does not violate their terms. Violation of terms will result in your quiz being removed.
Note: it is possible the Sporcle Admins could contact you and ask you to rework the image into the format we use for publishing if we decide that your quiz will be featured on the home page.

In order to maintain Sporcle and all of its users, we had to cap game creation at eleven to see how it would affect server speed and space. In addition, we need a cap in order to sort through all of the user generated games and pick out possible candidates for publication.

To create bonus answers in quizzes put 'ee' in the last (extra) column. This answer should also be at the bottom of the quiz (last rows). For example if the quiz was 'Great Inventions in History', you'd want to format it like this:

Column 1	Column 2 (Guessed Item)	Column 3
Hint	Bread
Hint	The Wheel
Hint	Beer
Hint	Sporcle	ee

NOTE:YOU MUST PUT BONUS ANSWERS AS THE VERY LAST ANSWERS IF YOU WANT THE RESULTS TO BE ACCURATE

Choose the option in the Style tab - "Group Answers with Same Hint" In the Data tab. the first column has to represent the heading for each answer that falls under that heading. So, if the heading is Things That Are Blue the data should look like this Column 1 Column 2 (Guessed Item) Things That Are Blue Blueberries Things That Are Blue Men in Vegas Things That Are Blue Jeans Things That Are Red Cherries Things That Are Red Blood Things That Are Red Krypton's Sun

You cannot delete a game once it is contributed, but you can take if offline. To do so, click on the Create tab, find the game in the list of games under 'Contributed Games'. Click EDIT and then click on the 'Finish Up' tab. Click the 'Take Game Offline' button.

Click on the Create tab. Find the game in the list of games under 'Contributed Games'. Click EDIT. Here you can make changes to the game. It might be a good idea to take the game offline if you are planning major change. After the changes have been made, return to the 'Finish Up' tab and click 'Put Game Back Online'

There sure is! Check out the Game Creation Cheat Sheet.

The Game Options let you customize the game play experience. They are:

Accept last word only in answers - used for games where you want people to guess last names. For example, if Brad Pitt is in the data, entering Pitt will give you the answer with this option checked.

Accept single character answers - used for games where you want a single character such as 'I' or '2' to be accepted as an answer.

Filter default words (a, and, the, etc) - by default the words 'a', 'and', 'the' and 'etc' are filtered from game play. Meaning that typing in 'Hangover' would be an acceptable answer for 'The Hangover'. If you do not want that option, you can disable it here.

Hide 3rd Column until answered - this setting will hide the 3rd hint column until answer is given

Bonus/Hidden answers become wrong answers - This option turns bonus answers, (i.e. answers where 'ee' is in the 3rd column) into wrong answers. For a full explanation of how this feature works, please see the Sporcle Blog

Wrong answers end the quiz - When this box is checked, entering in a pre-defined wrong answer in the quiz will automatically end the quiz.

Force answers in order - this option sets game play so that each question/answer has to be done in sequence.

Force answers in order and hide next clue - this option sets game play so that each question/answer has to be done in sequence and you cannot see the next question until the current question is answered

Randomize order of answers - This is fairly self explanatory, but the order of answers and questions gets randomly set with each game play.

A wrong answer quiz is a special type of quiz on Sporcle where a quiz's bonus answers are actually marked as incorrect and are no longer guessable. To create such a quiz, you must check the appropriate box in the game creation center, and make sure all of your hints match just like a quiz with headings. We've also created a more detailed explanation over at the Sporcle Blog.

New tools present new opportunities. Older quizzes can certainly be remade or adapted into new and evolving formats. That being said, please remember that Sporcle is a quiz site, but it also endeavors to be a community of people who share an interest in knowledge based gaming.
As such, please try to be a good member of that community and be respectful of other people's previously contributed ideas and let them adapt those quizzes to this new format if they wish.

The Clickable game type allow users to play a game without using the keyboard. These games pose a question or series of questions and the answers are selectable in the area below. Be warned, some games may include decoys.

Yes! Sporcle University is a place where anyone can get tips on how to create Sporcle quizzes.

Private quizzes are do not show up on search or your profile, but you can still use the link to play your game, send to friends, and see results. Games marked as private will not be featured or published by Sporcle.

Indeed we do! Go check it out: Sporcle on the App Store.

Yeah, we have that too! Go check it out: Sporcle on Android.

We have so many! Check out some of our other awesome apps like Badly Drawn Faces, Badly Drawn Movies, and even daily dose apps like Word Ladder, Missing Word, and Minute Morsel. Is that enough for you?

Challenges give you the chance to see how you stack up against your friends.
Once you have played a game, you have the option to 'Challenge your friends'. You can challenge other Sporcle users or enter in emails of people you may know.
Once challenged, an email is sent out with your score and a link to the game daring your friend(s) to try to top your score.

In the game information box for each embeddable game is a link that says 'Embed Game'. Click on this link and in the window that opens, you'll see a field containing embed code for the quiz. Copy the code and paste it into your blog or website.

Embedding allows you to take a featured quiz (or one that you have created) and post it on a web page outside of Sporcle.

You can embed most all list (classic) based quizzes that have been featured (published) by Sporcle. If you have created an account on Sporcle, any list based quiz you have created can also be embedded.