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Creating a Riddle Guessing Game system on a Wordpress site

  • 21-06-2012 12:48pm
    #1
    Eddie-B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭


    Hi All! I have a website hosted by godaddy and using wordpress for all the posting and look of the site. Now for my problem.

    I used to run a game on twitter where i would give clues to a song i was thinking of and people would send their guesses to me and i created an excel for the points scoring system. FIrst correct gets 3 points, any time correct gets 1 point etc. It became fairly popular amongst a group of people and i want to bring it to my site now. Except i have no idea of where to begin.

    I can easily get the questions to the people but it is recieving the answers that i am having trouble with. Going through 50 emails a day was getting tiring! Is there a way to create a way for them log a username into a databas and then get them to input that username with their answers. This would store the answer under the username.

    It is just a start to my idea but i am struggling with even the beggining so any help would be great.

    If this is not in the right place or just mindblowingly stupid then just say and i will delete it.

    Thanks,

    Eddie


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  • #2
    Feathers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Feathers


    Eddie-B wrote: »
    Hi All! I have a website hosted by godaddy and using wordpress for all the posting and look of the site. Now for my problem.

    I used to run a game on twitter where i would give clues to a song i was thinking of and people would send their guesses to me and i created an excel for the points scoring system. FIrst correct gets 3 points, any time correct gets 1 point etc. It became fairly popular amongst a group of people and i want to bring it to my site now. Except i have no idea of where to begin.

    I can easily get the questions to the people but it is recieving the answers that i am having trouble with. Going through 50 emails a day was getting tiring! Is there a way to create a way for them log a username into a databas and then get them to input that username with their answers. This would store the answer under the username.

    It is just a start to my idea but i am struggling with even the beggining so any help would be great.

    If this is not in the right place or just mindblowingly stupid then just say and i will delete it.

    Thanks,

    Eddie

    Hi Eddie,

    yes this sounds very possible alright, either to write from scratch or more likely to get a plugin that you could adapt.

    I would suggest finding a plugin & then adapting it, as you don't have to worry as much about people trying to hack your DB by putting malicious SQL into your form rather than an answer. (Although security is always a concern when taking in info from people).

    The part you're most likely to have to customise would be the increased points for first answer. That might not be widely implemented by others.

    What have you come across so far in looking? I did a quick Google search for "wordpress quiz plugin". This article could be a good start.


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