New Challenge Features

If you've been receiving challenges lately, and you've been frustrated by your friends only sending you challenges that seem impossible to beat, you should try our latest new challenge feature, the Blind Challenge

All you have to do is go to the challenge page, select the friends you want to challenge, and the quiz category you want to play, and suddenly, you've entered the Sporcle Thunderdome.

Something else you may want to try is challenging multiple friends to a random category. Using this, you can get yourself up to ten random quizzes to play, which is perfect for an afternoon Sporcle Marathon.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Quizmaster Rankings

You may have seen a few changes with Sporcle in the last few weeks. We've made some tweaks to the look of the site here and there to help keep things organized.

We've also added a new feature that we've been working on for a while, Sporcle Quizmaster Rankings. This is a brand new leaderboard that ranks Sporcle users using a super-secret BCS-like formula based on contributed quizzes and gameplays (Amongst other things). The overall leader-board will change daily, so we encourage everyone out there to keep making great quizzes in order to improve your ranking.

To check out your individual ranking if you're not in the top 100, just click on your username when you're logged in and you'll be able to see your ranking right on your profile.

New Sporcle Challenge

A couple of weeks ago we released a new set of features aimed at allowing you to challenge your friends. We also challenged everyone to a round of '3 Letter Body
Parts'

If you haven't challenged your friends yet, now would be a great time to follow a couple of friends on the site and start challenging away. Our Sporcle team has been challenging each other since the release, and though some of our records are better than others, we've been having a great time.

To get started, just play a quiz (or pick a quiz you've already played), click the challenge button at the bottom of the quiz, and choose the friends you'd like to challenge.

You can also check out the new Challenge section in your Activity Page, so you can keep track of your open and completed challenges, and keep track of your overall challenge stats.

Embed Sporcle Quizzes on your Website

We here at Sporcle have just launched an exciting new feature that allows you embed quizzes directly onto your blog or website. When you're logged in, just go to our embed page and sign up. You can embed up to ten different quizzes on three separate domains.

The only restrictions to embedding are that certain quizzes (such as maps or image quizzes) are not yet allowed to be embedded, and you must also have FTP access to your site in order to upload a required HTML file.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns over at our Feedback page.

New Feature: Ability to block users following you

We have recently implemented a small, but much requested feature update that allows users to block others from following them. If a user begins following you on Sporcle and you'd rather they not see your updates, you can now go to your user profile (www.sporcle.com/user/USERNAME) click on the Connections link, look for the follower, and click the word Block. Their name will be crossed out, and they will no longer be allowed to see your updates in the activity feed, nor compare their scores to yours.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.

Sporcle College Rankings have arrived

You might have noticed a new feature that popped up on Sporcle last night. While you've had the ability to add your school info to your profile for some time, we've decided to incorporate that data into a wonderfully complicated BCS-style ranking system. Check out the top 25 for the week here.

If you haven't yet added your college to your profile, it's pretty easy. When you're logged in, simply click on Settings, find the word 'School', click 'Edit', search for your school name, then click Submit.

As per usual, if there are any features or changes you'd like to see, please let us know via our Feedback page.

Making Sporcle Even Better

You may have noticed that we had a little downtime last Saturday night, but as you can now see we updated the look and feel of Sporcle. (Look at that shading!) We've also recently updated our Editor's Picks page to a much more robust version. You can now click through and see all of the editor's picks from each category sorted by date, rating or number of game plays. This feature actually came directly from a user suggestion, so if you have a great idea for Sporcle, or you want to let us know what you think of the new changes, make sure and contact us at our feedback page.

The Daily Dose

You may have noticed that we have a new feature on our website called The Daily Dose. At Sporcle, we're always trying to come up with great new ideas, and this is our answer to folks who just need to get their Sporcle fix a little bit faster. Here's a little more detail about each game:

Minute Morsel: We know that sometimes you only have a couple of minutes before that next meeting or class and there's no way you'll be able to finish one of our longer quizzes. The Minute Morsel was created just for this. It's basically a small slice of a quiz already published on our site. If you happen to be in the mood to try the full quiz later, the link is right there below the morsel.

Missing Word: This is a quick fill-in-the blank style quiz that we're hoping is a fun mind-jogger Every day we'll have you filling in the blanks of various subjects. So far we've had subjects like movie and song titles, but we're looking for even more great ideas for future quizzes.

Scrambled Word: This quiz is designed to put a Sporcle twist on the old word scramble games from your morning paper. With this quiz, you might be unscrambling a celebrity name, or figuring out the answer to a joke.

While the Minute Morsel is compiled from existing published games, the Missing and Scrambled Word games are currently done by the Sporcle editors. However, we know that our community suprises us again and again with creative, excellent quizzes, so we definitely want to see a lot more user contributions to this part of our site. Think of it this way, with two new daily quizzes every day, these new quizzes are one the best ways to get yourself published on Sporcle.