tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post861428464272608855..comments2024-03-12T12:54:32.926-07:00Comments on Life After Mastermind: Morally Deficient NumptiesLondiniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-883215985379438132012-09-07T15:13:07.161-07:002012-09-07T15:13:07.161-07:00Hi Everyone
Thanks for all of your advice and com...Hi Everyone<br /><br />Thanks for all of your advice and comments. Davidbod - thanks especially for your calming words. Since then the next Qm actually made a point of mentioning the use of phones in the quiz last night and it did make a difference. We all know who's doing it - the thing we have to all do when we're QM is to let them know that it's not on. Londiniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07871325359167581176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-15974775792535890222012-09-03T03:10:54.225-07:002012-09-03T03:10:54.225-07:00If you're trying to flush out the cheats, try ...If you're trying to flush out the cheats, try this.<br /><br />Put 2/3 questions in the quiz each week which ARE NOT going to count towards the final total, make them so obscure that nobody will question the answer.. DO NOT TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS.<br /><br />THEN, the master stroke - for said questions, edit the Wikipedia pages with some wrong answers that people cannot possibly have guessed. For example, ask 'When Egghead Pat Gibson won Mastermind, he chose what subject his first round?'.. Plant the answer on his wikipedia page, something like The Life and Publications of Hugh Hefner or The Members of Blazin Squad. First team to put this as an answer = CHEAT. You'd have to be more creative than my topics above, but you get the idea..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-10118506373257346242012-09-03T02:05:09.869-07:002012-09-03T02:05:09.869-07:00This is, of course, the reason I gave up on pub qu...This is, of course, the reason I gave up on pub quizzes. It's especially annoying when you've slaved over setting a quiz to make it interesting, varied and balanced, and someone just googles the answers. Really, what is the point in that? It's like cheating at Patience, or filing the edges on a jigsaw to make it fit, especially if there is just a few pounds at stake. I suppose the only solution is to constantly name and shame the guilty, perhaps the public humiliation will work if it's done every week - peer pressure is a powerful thing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17005504982536146457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-56976223603669889802012-09-02T05:00:19.534-07:002012-09-02T05:00:19.534-07:00I did a quiz on Wednesday with some big cash jackp...I did a quiz on Wednesday with some big cash jackpots (£20 a round over 4 rounds and an jackpot prize to whoever got the highest score of £30) at the end of the 2nd round a team had scored maximum on the 1st two rounds so I annoucned that once you'd won a round you couldn't win again and suddenly this team's score dropped to just 2 out of 10 and 3 out of 10. They obviously kept playing, so either they just didn't bother to write down any answers or didn't bother to think - or they were cheating and knowing that they couldn't win anything more, didn't bother to cheat. <br /><br />I like the idea QuizQuizQuiz has - but it can't be policed in an ordinary pub where punters come and go - for a smoke, to the loo etc. <br /><br />What I do if there is a team of known cheaters in now is put in a question that you can Google and get the correct answer for - but is a question you'd only get right if you Googled as nobody else would know it. Then if a team has it right, you can call them out on Googling. Ben Duttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626732284749728398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-24236640765376054092012-09-01T12:15:38.950-07:002012-09-01T12:15:38.950-07:00QuizQuizQuiz did a nice long article about this: h...QuizQuizQuiz did a nice long article about this: http://www.quizquizquiz.com/blog/pub-quiz/cheating-in-pub-quizzes<br /><br />Personally, I think it has to stem from the quizmaster. In the (monstrously difficult) quiz I do in central London, the QM basically bans all phones and says anyone caught with one in active mode will have 10 points added to their score. Sometimes hundreds of pounds are at stake as prize money.<br /><br />I think if you see it going on, you have to raise it with the management rather than tackling these things head on. No-one has the right to be the Quiz Police other than the gaffer running the joint.davidbodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06069767281654752637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401280171563686515.post-74022583180761659662012-09-01T08:58:39.392-07:002012-09-01T08:58:39.392-07:00Using phones (or anything else) to look up the ans...Using phones (or anything else) to look up the answers makes the whole quiz pointless.<br /> A quiz is meant to test memory and ability to put bits of knowledge together. Taking part in a quiz is a way of challenging yourself.<br /><br />I'd react to cheats, especially such blatent ones, in the same way you do. Cheating, week after week, is making a mockery of the whole thing. They aren't making the effort to genuinely compete, so why should they be allowed to take part ? Would an athlete known to take drugs be allowed to compete time after time ? <br />When a quizmaster puts time and effort into coming up with a quiz intended to provide a pleasurable challenge for players, it's an insult to not play the game properly. Why bother going to the effort of devising a good quiz - which is a skill - when you might just as well pick a bunch of random statistics off the internet because all your players are going to do it look up the answers on the internet anyway ?<br /><br />The cheaters aren't just dishonest, they are rude, too.Skiffle.cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14196107677175829685noreply@blogger.com