Links to helpful guides & solutions within Sporcle, the Sporcle University Forum and other resources

This website contains links to helpful answers to common & recurring questions. It has been compiled by a team of everyday veteran Sporclers, and although it is not managed by the Sporcle administration itself, it contains links to numerous Sporcle-hosted FAQ and guides as well. It is still under construction and experimentation, and many more specific FAQ direct links will be added as well.

Note:  Currently, the phrase “perfect solution” indicates that a given post adequately answers a specific question which had been originally posed in the Sporcle University forum (not that it is an “all-inclusive” guide).

You may find it easier to navigate these pages with the alphabetical index or the category pages for general help, classic quizzes, clickable quizzes, and slideshow quizzes.



Some Primary Resources

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Clickable quiz help index

Clickable Quiz Guide: Sporcle Blog
Checkmarks (clickable), see Shooting Gallery
Criteria quiz
“Different” text to trigger mines
Embedded image quizzes
Forced order minefield
Image quizzes, see Embedded image quizzes or the Slideshow category page
Line break, see New lines
Minefield, see Forced order minefield or “Different” text to trigger mines
New lines
Shooting Gallery

Other indexes: Alphabetical, General quiz help, Classic quizzes, Slideshow quizzes

Classic quiz help index

How to Create a Classic Quiz – Sporcle blog

Alternate answers
Answers showing up at end of quiz, see Revealing answers at end of quiz
Color, see Text color
Display answers with “go”, see Using “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Embedded image quizzes
Embedded YouTube video
End of quiz, see Revealing answers at end of quiz
Figure Out the Lyrics
Go, see Using “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Grouping answers with the same hint
Hide hint column, see Hint column hidden
Hide third column, see Third column hidden
Hint column hidden
Hint column shown
Image quizzes, see Embedded image quizzes or the Slideshow category page
Labyrinth, see Word Labyrinth
Line break, see New lines
Logic puzzle, see Resources, Logic puzzle cell size, or Logic puzzle mines
Logic puzzle cell size
Logic puzzle mines
Match Em Up
Multiple chances, see Weighted quizzes
New lines
Revealing answers at end of quiz
Show hints, see Hint column shown
Slot Machine
Start of quiz, see Using “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Text color
Third column hidden
This or That
Use “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Video, see Embedded YouTube Video
Weighted quizzes
Word Labyrinth
Word Laddyrinth, see Word Labyrinth
YouTube video, see Embedded YouTube Video

Other indexes: Alphabetical, General quiz help, Clickable quizzes, Slideshow quizzes

General quiz help index

Bold, see Text size and formatting
Brackets
Editing tags
Font size, see Text size and formatting
Italics, see Text size and formatting
Subscripts, see Text size and formatting
Superscripts, see Text size and formatting
Symbols
Tags, see Editing tags
Text size and formatting
Underline, see Text size and formatting

Other indexes: Alphabetical, Classic quizzes, Clickable quizzes, Slideshow quizzes

Alphabetical index to links, by Topic

Alternate answers
Answers showing up at end of quiz, see Revealing answers at end of quiz
Bold, see Text size and formatting
Brackets
Checkmarks (clickable), see Shooting Gallery
Classic quizzes, see Classic category index
Clickable quizzes, see Clickable category index
Color, see Text color
Criteria quiz
“Different” text to trigger mines
Display answers with “go”, see Using “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Editing tags
Embedded image quizzes
Embedded YouTube video
End of quiz, see Revealing answers at end of quiz
Figure Out the Lyrics
Font size, see Text size and formatting
Forced order minefield
General help, see General help category index
Go, see Using “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Grouping answers with the same hint
Hide hint column, see Hint column hidden
Hide third column, see Third column hidden
Hint column hidden
Hint column shown
Image quizzes, see Embedded image quizzes or the Slideshow category page
Italics, see Text size and formatting
Labyrinth, see Word Labyrinth
Line break, see New lines
Logic Quiz Tutorial: YouTube presentation by vikZ
Logic quiz, see Resources, Logic quiz cell size, or Logic quiz mines
Logic quiz cell size
Logic quiz mines
Match Em Up
Minefield, see Forced order minefield or “Different” text to trigger mines
Multiple chances, see Weighted quizzes
New lines
Reusing slideshow pictures with wrong answers
Revealing answers at end of quiz
Shooting Gallery
Show hints, see Hint column shown
Slideshow quizzes, see Slideshow category index
Slideshow hints
Slot Machine
Start of quiz, see Using “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Subscripts, see Text size and formatting
Superscripts, see Text size and formatting
Symbols
Tags, see Editing tags
Text color
Text size and formatting
Third column hidden
This or That
Underline, see Text size and formatting
Use “go” to display answers at the start of the quiz
Use same picture in slideshow more than once with wrong answers, see Reusing slideshow pictures with wrong answers
Video, see Embedded YouTube Video
Weighted quizzes
Word Labyrinth
Word Laddyrinth, see Word Labyrinth
YouTube video, see Embedded YouTube Video