QuizQuilt Documentation
QuizQuilt is a trivia game with a twist. Each puzzle consists of a set of genus trivia questions whose answers provide the solution to a cryptic quilt clue. If you're stuck, hints are available. Or just check out the quilt solution and read the bonus explanations and factoids with each answer.
QuizQuilt runs on almost every PDA or cell phone using PalmOS.
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| Quilt Screen (blank) | Quilt Screen (filled) | Question Screen | Solution Screen |
Note: all screenshots in this document are real, but to avoid spoiling the puzzles, the answers presented are not from the bundled quizzes.
Table of Contents
Each QuizQuilt puzzle consists of a set of trivia questions and a quilt clue for you to solve.
QuizQuilt has two main screens that you will work on. The Quilt screen presents all of your current answers in a grid and allows you to select where the quilt answer should run through them. The Question screen presents each category question and gives you a place to enter your answer (you can also enter the answer on the Quilt screen).
When you think you've solved the quilt, or you just want to see the answers, you can go to the Solution screen. You can also check your score at any time on the Scores screen.
Each quilt includes one question from each of the following six genus categories:
- Entertainment & Food - food and drinks, movies, music, and television questions
- History & Government - government, history, and politics questions
- Math & Science - computers, math, and science questions
- Geography & Nature - geography and nature questions
- Literature & Arts - art, books, comics, mythology, poetry, and religion questions
- Sports & Games - games, sports, and toys questions
You can view the categories of the questions on the Quilt & Module Info screen.
Category answers can be entered on either the Quilt screen or the Question screen.
- Each category answer is a single word with no spaces or punctuation marks. Capitalization is ignored (although capital letters are displayed, you can enter lower case letters instead).
- Each category answer begins in the leftmost column and will have between one and ten letters. Leave unused boxes to the right blank.
- If the category answer is a person, the last name is usually required unless the person is commonly known by just a first name (e.g., MADONNA).
- If the category answer is known by both a multi-word name and an acronym, the acronym is desired (e.g., GE for General Electric).
- If the category answer is a sports team, the nickname is required for professional sports and the university or college name for college sports (e.g., METS for the New York Mets and DUKE for the Duke University Blue Devils).
Your currently calculated quilt answer appears at the bottom left of the Quilt screen and at the bottom of the Scores screen. Hyphens indicate missing letters.
- The quilt answer will always be six letters long, spelled out in a straight line through all of the category answers. It is usually one word but may consist of two or three words concatenated with no spaces.
- The possible positions for the quilt answer are: Nth Letters (1st through 9th), Last Letters, Diagonal (starting in the first column), or Reverse Diagonal (ending in the first column). The direction can be Up or Down. See examples on the screenshots throughout this document.
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| Quilt Screen 1 | Quilt Screen 2 | Quilt Screen 3 | Quilt Screen 4 |
The Quilt screen is the main QuizQuilt screen where you can see all of your answers and contains the following:
- Quilt Question: The cryptic clue that you are trying to solve appears at the top left of the screen. The quilt answer will consist of six letters found in a straight line through the category answers.
- Quilt #: The number of the current quilt appears at the top right of the screen. Tap on the quilt number to go to the Select Quilt screen to choose a different quilt to work on.
- Category Question buttons (1 to 6): Tap to display the trivia question for the selected row. This will take you to the Question screen. On color devices, the color of the button indicates the category type (see Quilt & Module Info in the Help menu for more information).
- Category Answer boxes: Enter your answer to each question to the right of its corresponding question button, starting in the leftmost box (column 1). Each answer will be from 1 to 10 letters, with possible extra spaces on the right. You can move around the boxes using the arrow keys and other hardware buttons (see Preferences), or you can just tap on the box you want to go to.
- Quilt Answer: The currently calculated quilt answer, based on your category answers and the Position and Direction popups, appears at the bottom left of the screen. The letters used in the quilt answer are highlighted with a thick border in the Answer boxes.
- Position popup: The quilt answer can be composed of the 1st Letters of the category answers, the 2nd Letters, the 3rd Letters, an so forth, the Last Letters, or one of the two main diagonals touching a left corner box. Diagonal starts in the first column and goes right, while Reverse Diagonal starts in the sixth column and goes left. Note that there is no 10th Letters choice because Last Letters covers that possibility and is more flexible.
- Direction popup: The quilt answer can go Down or Up through the category answers.
- Prefs button: Allows you to set various Preferences including the question font and lines, sound, and hardware button usage.
- Hint button: Reveals a letter in one or all category answers or shows the quilt position and direction. More details can be found in the description of the Hint menu option.
- Register button: Allows you to enter your QuizQuilt registration code, which gives you access to all available quilts. This button will disappear once you have registered. See the sections below on Pricing and Registering QuizQuilt.
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| Question Screen |
The Question screen displays the category questions and includes the following:
- Question buttons (1 to 6): Tap to select the question in that row (you can also enter the number 1 through 6 using Graffiti or a keyboard). On color devices, the color of the button indicates the category type (see Quilt & Module Info in the Help menu for more information).
- Hint button: Reveals a letter in one or all category answer or shows the quilt position and direction. More details can be found in the description of the Hint menu option.
- Category Question: The trivia question is displayed in the middle of the screen. A one-word answer from 1 to 10 letters long is required.
- Category Answer boxes: Use Graffiti or your device's keyboard to enter the letters of the answer in the ten boxes at the bottom of the screen. The answer is a single word beginning in the leftmost box. You can use the arrow and other hardware buttons to move around (see Preferences). The space and backspace keys do the obvious, while the return key puts you at the first columns of the next category answer.
- OK button: Return to the Quilt screen.
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| Solution Screen (question) | Solution Screen (answer) |
The Solution screen shows you the answers to the current quilt and displays the following:
- Question buttons (1 to 6): Tap to select the question in that row (you can also enter the number 1 through 6 using Graffiti or a keyboard). On color devices, the color of the buttons indicate the category types (see Quilt & Module Info in the Help menu for more information).
- Question or Answer text: The selected category or quilt question or answer appears in the middle of the screen. All answers are accompanied by additional explanatory text or a related factoid.
- Question and Answer buttons: Tap the Question button to see the question and the Answer button to see the answer.
- OK button: Return to the Quilt screen.
On color devices, the color of the category number buttons indicate the category types (see Quilt & Module Info screen in the Help menu for more information).
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| Preferences |
Six QuizQuilt options can be set on the Preferences screen:
- Font - Sets the font used for the question/answer field (Standard, Bold, Large, or Large Bold.
- Lines - Sets whether lines are displayed in the question/answer field or not.
- Skip Intro - Sets whether the introduction is displayed when QuizQuilt is launched on the Quilt screen.
- Animation - Sets whether transitions to and from the Quilt screen are animated or not.
- Hardware Btns - Sets whether the hardware buttons can be used to navigate on the Quilt and Question screens. If this option is checked, the Address hardware button moves left, and the To Do (Mail on some devices) hardware button moves right. The Page Up and Page Down hardware buttons always work, regardless of this setting.
- Sound - Sets whether sound is turned On, Off, or set to match the System Game Sounds preference (checked at startup).
In addition, on color devices you can tap on the Set Colors button to set the background colors used on the Quilt, Question, and Solution screens. Each color can be individually set or reverted back to its default.
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| Set Background Colors |
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| QuizQuilt Menu | Beam Menu | Help Menu |
Three menus are available on QuizQuilt's main screens.
- QuizQuilt Menu:
- Scores - Displays your score on the current quilt. Each correct category answer is worth one point, and the quilt answer is worth four points for a total of ten possible points. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/C".
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| Scores |
- Hint - Reveals a letter in one or all category answers or shows the quilt position and direction. If the hint letter is the last letter of the answer (whether from a "Current", "Another", or "Last" hint), any unnecessary letters to the right will be cleared. The "Another" and "Current" hints can be used as many times as you want. This menu option is not available on the Solution screen. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/H". (You can also tap on the Hint button on the Quilt screen or the Question screen.)
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| Hint Screen |
- Display Solution - Shows the answers to the category questions and the quilt on the Solution screen. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/D". (You can also tap on the Solution button on the Scores screen.)
- Next Quilt - Takes you to the next quilt. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/N".
- Select Quilt... - Displays a screen on which you can choose which QuizQuilt quilt to play. Tap on any row to select that quilt. Each row displays the quilt number, quilt question, and your score. The current quilt is indicated with a double-right arrow on the left. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/S". (You can also tap on the quilt number in the upper right of the Quilt screen.)
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| Select Quilt |
- Clear Answers... - Clears all of your answers for the current quilt. This action is not undoable.
- Preferences... - Displays the Preferences screen. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/R".
- Registration... - For unregistered copies of QuizQuilt, displays a screen on which you can enter your registration code after you have paid. This removes the five-quilt limit. See the sections below on Pricing and Registering QuizQuilt.
- Beam Menu - The QuizQuilt Application option beams the QuizQuilt application (QuizQuilt.prc) to another Palm device via infrared or Bluetooth.
- Help Menu:
- Game Rules - Displays the general rules for QuizQuilt.
- Quilt & Module Info - Displays information about the current quilt and module. The question categories are listed in the order they appear in the quilt. On color devices, the columns of boxes show the color for unselected categories on the left and the selected category on the right. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/M".
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| Quilt & Module Info |
- Welcome Message - Displays the welcome message that is shown the first time QuizQuilt is run.
- About QuizQuilt - Displays information about QuizQuilt, including the version number. The Graffiti shortcut for this option is "/I".
QuizQuilt is $9.95 shareware. All future upgrades are free, including any new quilts that are published. Unregistered copies of QuizQuilt are limited to the first five quilts (out of one hundred).
See the Purchasing.html document or tap on the Information button ("i") on QuizQuilt's Registration screen for details on how obtain a registration code.
Once you have your registration code, go back into QuizQuilt and use the Registration menu option to bring up the Registration screen. Enter the code and click on the OK button. You should get a confirmation window indicating that you're all set. Thanks!
In the Docs folder, the file QuizQuiltDoc.pdb is a Doc-formatted version of this file. This file can be read on your PalmOS device (or PC or Macintosh) if you have a Doc reader installed such as the free eReader (http://www.ereader.com/product/browse/software).
In the Docs folder the following files can also be found:
QuizQuilt Version 1.1.0, October 1, 2007
QuizQuilt is Copyright (C)2006-2007 by Robert Jen.
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