Can you pick the items that follow the rule (after trying to figure out what the rule is)? by AuroraIllumina

Can you pick the items that follow the rule (after trying to figure out what the rule is)?

created by AuroraIllumina

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There's a hidden rule that you must figure out by guessing answers. The earlier you figure it out, the better (since you can click on the correct answers while avoiding the wrong ones).
Note: You are not expected to get a perfect score in this game, since getting some wrong ones early on may be needed to figure out the theme. If you want a hint to start off, check the first comment. *The rule is based on spelling; you don't need to pay attention to the meanings of the words for this one.
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Find the hidden rule! (clickable) Quiz

by AuroraIllumina

Created Apr 17, 2012 in Just For Fun
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	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 17th, 2012 at 18:32 GMT		5 points
	INITIAL HINT: There are six countries that begin with K. Of those six, the one with the shortest name is wrong, and the other five are correct. -------------------------------------------------- So, trying a little something new with these clickable quizzes, inspired by a different game that some of us play. The object is to figure out what the rule is as soon as possible, then to pick only answers that follow the rule as soon as you find out what the rule is.

	acabrrr999:	Apr 17th, 2012 at 19:05 GMT		8 points
	But you've just made me annoyed because I want to know what the rule is, but can't work it out. Can you at least give us a hint, like is it grammatical, or what the words mean?

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 17th, 2012 at 19:07 GMT		1 point
	Yeah, I guess that would be an important one. In this quiz, it is based on the words themselves (ie. the spelling), not the meanings of the words.

	Nikkidemas:	Apr 17th, 2012 at 19:25 GMT		12 points
	My initial guess was correct, but I still got tripped up on four of them! Original concept.

	druhutch:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 06:07 GMT		9 points
	Wow, that took me waaaay too long to figure out. For a while I was just angrily clicking everything in sight. A really nice idea that could potentially be spun off many ways. And ever since this format came out I've wanted to make a quiz with random stuff written on hundreds of buttons. Excellent work.

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 14:03 GMT		7 points
	@druhutch: Glad you had fun with it. :) I'll probably post a similar quiz or two (or six... or thirty... or possibly up to fifty thousand!) in a similar form if any good thoughts show up in my mind. (Post-script: Writing with constraints is difficult!)

	lwfc:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 16:18 GMT		4 points
	I don't get it - how are we meant to find out what the rule was? I got 130 correct just from random clicking after I gave up trying to work out what it was, but now I'm confused and want to know!

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 16:42 GMT		3 points
	There is no easy way for me to write out the solution somewhere in a place where people won't see it. Look at my comment immediately above (the one that was a response to druhutch). Look at it carefully - it is actually a hint. Compare that reply to the following paragraph: "Glad you enjoyed it. :) I'll likely make more quizzes like this whenever a good idea comes to mind. (By the way, constrained writing is not easy!)" (Note that the part about 6 or 30 or 50000 in my other reply is an exaggeration, but it still fits the constraint I applied, which is also the same constraint as the quiz itself. Anything that follows that constraint is a correct answer.)

	vikZ:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 16:53 GMT		4 points
	Clever. I actually thought it was a rule that was a little more strict but then I figured out the entirety of the rule. I enjoyed the dead giveaways after finding out the rule too (especially the mathematical constant).

	kw_hanna:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 18:01 GMT		8 points
	this is so hard....i don't have the faintest idea... I've tried counting all the letters in the word and some 7-letter words work and others don't... I'm definitely intrigued, but it's almost offputting when you can't figure it out. I'm not one to give up right away, but when I'm not making any ground on the rule, it's very frustrating!! lol

	oshoj:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 22:08 GMT		26 points
	How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this quiz? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. I don't know. Now, go to work and try your luck.

	ambition:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 22:21 GMT		5 points
	Great quiz and use of the format. I would like to see 6 or 30 more but probably not 50000.

	kerplunk:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 01:52 GMT		3 points
	Wow. I was getting way to complicated in my theories. Great, but frustrating, quiz.

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Apr 21st, 2012 at 03:51 GMT

3 points

I was thinking of really hard and unusual math themes, but after about a half hour of thinking, I realized that the theme was actually easier than I thought

	zigfreid:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 06:48 GMT		4 points
	It probably doesn't matter too much, but vanilla appears twice in your list. Neat quiz idea, but I think it would have worked better with fewer words. If you get the rule early, finishing the quiz is a pretty mundane task.

	milc:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 08:15 GMT		1 point
	Worked out the rule pretty quickly so started again, but it is so easy to slip upBrilliant quiz. Brilliant quiz

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 11:05 GMT		1 point
	@zigfreid: Thanks. I replaced it with something sillier. Maybe I'll make later ones smaller. @oshoj: You know what you talk about, obviously. ;) @ambition: Sure, I might make a lot of these. 50,000 is obviously an exaggeration, but it's still a big number that fits the constraints.

	MizzParadox:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 11:40 GMT		4 points
	I found this was a brilliant way to pass an hour or so trying to avoid slip ups. Truly difficult writing as such :L

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 19:34 GMT		2 points
	@zigfreid: OK, I decided that makes sense. I made this quiz smaller now, after removing some of the redundant answers. My later quizzes of this type will probably be about this size. (Note that the statistics page looks weird now because now it says that 37% of quiztakers did perfectly, which is false.)

	bazmerelda:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 20:08 GMT		6 points
	Wow! I took way too long figuring that out. Writing with that particular constraint is particularly difficult. Kudos to you on coming up with such long pros....Dammit!

	puckett86:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 21:23 GMT		3 points
	I actually managed to get one wrong even after figuring out the rule. Very fun quiz.

	albionkeeps:	Apr 21st, 2012 at 21:46 GMT		3 points
	What is the rule, I have spent ages trying to work it out and it just wont come to me. HELP ME PLEASE!!!

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 00:46 GMT		6 points
	If I should say a hint... I'd say that you should look at oshoj's, MizzParadox's and baz's insights on this topic at hand (and writing with constraints - this list of insights, surprisingly, follows that constraint as with all right buttons on this quiz). So, I should say, as an additional hint, that you should look for what's missing. In this quiz, wrong buttons all show a particular symbol that's missing from all right buttons. (I should also say, this post follows this constraint too. It took a bit of thought writing this!)

	ezois:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 02:09 GMT		2 points
	Okay. Got it now.

	Joslynn:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 08:30 GMT		4 points
	How frustrating -_-

	royalpink:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 14:11 GMT		5 points
	Ah, I finally got this quiz! I know of a book following this constraint. Thought this quiz was a lot of fun. Thank you!

	emmachild:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 14:35 GMT		3 points
	it seems really easy once you work it out, still took me ages :S

	emmachild:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 14:37 GMT		1 point
	any chance of a sequel??? :D

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 15:08 GMT		1 point
	For sure! I do have more ideas in store. Some of them will be based on wordplay (like this one), while others will be based on actual meanings.

	nice2:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 17:01 GMT		0 points
	For all of you guys who don't know how to find a solution to this quiz, you must study and think about it until you find it. It isn't difficult, but you must own a trait of dedication. You must think long and hard about this quiz until you find a solution. As you start to find a solution, you will find that it wasn't as hard as you thought.

	MaxMallanite:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 17:40 GMT		1 point
	87 has got to be pretty good for having NO CLUE what the theme was

	TheCleverone:	Apr 22nd, 2012 at 17:47 GMT		0 points
	Let's all wait for the idiot who comes along and writes out the rule.

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	kw_hanna:	Apr 23rd, 2012 at 02:19 GMT		2 points
	Is this one of those things where there isn't really a rule, but people just make comments about how they understand it and it bugs everyone that's not in on it? lol....I've studied this for three days and have no clue. People say it's easier than it seems, so I try to dumb it down to like "double vowels..nope." I think it'll come to me one day, but right now I am stumped

	kw_hanna:	Apr 23rd, 2012 at 02:28 GMT		5 points
	Wow. Right as I show frustration, I find what I'm looking for! Brilliant quiz, not "excellent or great", but brilliant!

	AuroraIllumina:	Apr 23rd, 2012 at 02:56 GMT		2 points
	@nice2: It's great to try constrained writing and all that, but unfortunately the word "dedication" fails to meet the constraints. :( @Anyone who has no idea: There is a real rule at hand here, and some people have legitimately gotten a perfect score or close to it. (Note that the scoreboard looks weird because I made the quiz smaller recently, but there were some perfect scores before that.) I am sure that bazmerelda, oshoj, MizzParadox, royalpink, and nice2 know what the rule is definitively, since they wrote comments that entirely follow the constraint (minus the slip-up I mentioned). (ezois and Joslynn followed the constraints in their comments too, but I'm not sure if that's coincidence or not given their short replies.) "Brilliant quiz" is a good reply that follows the constraints. "Excellent or great" would not follow the constraints. Anyways, some random statistics! -Two of the blatant "Click this" instructions form the top two guessed answers, and the third most-guessed answer is Waldo. -I mentioned the K countries in my initial hints. So, all five of the correct ones are in the top 15 most guessed answers, with Kosovo taking slot 15. However, Kazakhstan is the most-guessed of these (#4), followed by Kyrgyzstan (#5, also the lowest answer that's at 50% or higher). Wasn't there an "always pick Kyrgyzstan" rule on Sporcle? -All six Sporcle editors featured on here are correct answers, but all of them are in the bottom 18 in the most guessed answers list. Of these six sproutcm (our Quizmaster leader) is guessed most often, right now at 40.1%, while our History editor LTH is the second-least guessed answer, just above Iqaluit (a city in Nunavut). -While stats for which wrong answers are guessed the most are not available, I'll say that if you guessed "Don't click me, I'm a wrong answer", you're not alone; someone I've shown the quiz to actually tried to guess that one.

	LetsGoBlue:	Apr 23rd, 2012 at 03:06 GMT		6 points
	Quizzes like these are really terrific, even when every answer appears red.

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	Nassim:	Apr 23rd, 2012 at 05:22 GMT		11 points
	I managed to click on Epic Fail after having found the rule... not sure it's epic, but that's a fail

	Kitty21:	Apr 23rd, 2012 at 14:06 GMT		1 point
	I thought I didn't know what to pick and it was frustrating, but I found out. Following the constraints is difficult as you said. I want to show that I can do it. MaxMallanit is a bit too obvious I think.