Welcome to Quinzical!

How to Play

If you've always wanted to learn more about New Zealand, here's your chance. The game is very easy to play!

You will be presented with a start up screen where you can either choose to play the real game, or practice some of the questions from each category.

In the 'Play' section, you will be presented with 5 randomly chosen categories with question values underneath them. You will only be able to play the lowest value that hasn't been answered in each category, but you won't know what the question is! Select one of them and you'll be in to win that much money. Be careful, enter a wrong answer and you'll lose that much money. Once you've completed 2 categories, the international category will be unlocked for you to play.

In the 'Practice' section, you will be presented with all the possible categories. Simply click one and a randomly chosen question from that category will be asked. You will be given 3 attempts the answer the question - on your third attempt, the first letter of the answer is given. Don't worry about getting it wrong! The questions aren't worth anything, they're simply there for you to practice.

When you've completed all the questions in the 'Play' section, enter a name to save your score and the game will reset. A new set of questions will be generated for you to play again!

You can also add your own questions! Read below to find out how

Screenshots

Requirements

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
• Java11+ JDK
• Linux with festival installed

Download

Note: It is very important that you have at least 5 categories with at least 5 questions in each

Linux

1. Download the Quinzical.jar file
2. Download the categories.zip file
   • Alternatively, you can create your own categories and questions. See below for how to do this
   • Unpack the .zip and move the 'categories' folder into the same directory as Quinzical.jar
3. Open the terminal and execute the following commands

   > cd "path/to/jar"
   > chmod +x Quinzical.jar
   > java -jar Quinzical.jar
   

Adding Categories And Questions

You may add your own categories and questions as long you follow the correct format.

• The category file must be a plain text file
• It must be located within the 'categories' folder
• The 'categories' folder must be in the same directory that the .jar file is in
• You may not change the name of the 'categories' folder however, you can name the category file whatever you like
• Each question within a category must be separated by a new line
• Within each question, the format is as follows:
  • question(what/who/where is)answer
    • So, the line must start with the question, followed by a a bracketed (who is), (what is), etc. depending on the question, then the answer
  • One example might be: This New Zealander was the first person to climb Mount Everest(Who is)Edmund Hillary