How often do you get to spotlight another quiz?

Submitted by akjlddkjslfsd on December 2, 2025
It seems that I've never gotten a spotlight award since I reached level 50.

How often do you get one, on average?

16 Comments
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Level 56
Dec 2, 2025
I need numbers. Simply saying "very rare" is vague and doesn't address my question.

Is it once every 5 years, 10 years, or even longer than that?

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Level 72
Dec 2, 2025
never

joking, i got a few like 2 years ago. but none since. very rarely.

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Level 68
Dec 2, 2025
"We will randomly choose users who are at level 50 or higher, and who have been on the site for at least six months."

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Basically, it's random, albeit very low.

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Level 56
Dec 2, 2025
But like how many eligible users are there in total, and how often do they hand out an award? Once we know those it'll be easy to do the math to find out the answer.
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Level 57
Dec 2, 2025
Just add up all of the users for the levels 50 and above on the user ranks and percentiles page.
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Level 79
Dec 2, 2025
It also scales based on level. I’ve usually gotten one every couple of months
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Level 72
Dec 2, 2025
lucky
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Level 82
Dec 2, 2025
It's very, very rare. I only ever got one.
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Level 27
Dec 2, 2025
the only person who might be able to give you numbers is QM
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Level 56
Dec 2, 2025
In the 8 months (i have no idea how many months it is but im guessing 8) ive gotten one a week ago
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Level 52
Dec 2, 2025
How common is it to get your quiz spotlighted?
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Level 56
Dec 2, 2025
Two or three times in 5 years
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Level 82
Dec 2, 2025
I'll expand on my answer: it apparently works like a lottery, every JP user with a level greater or equal than 50 gets a ticket + 1 ticket for each 10 more level they have (so lv 60 gets you 2 tickets, lv 70 3 tickets and so on). Only english language levels count. Since there's a page that lists the amount of users per level, it could be possible to calculate the probability of receiving a spotlight.

Maybe i'll do it later.

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Level 71
Dec 2, 2025
I haven't gotten any. I think I've passed level 50 for at least 4-5 months.

I have, however gotten two spotlight awards from other users.

On a note - Kilonova keeps getting both spotlights to give, and recieves spotlights. A lot.

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Level 61
Dec 2, 2025
I've gotten a grand total of 1 spotlight to give...I just receive a lot
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Level 71
Dec 2, 2025
Huh. But you had a spotlight for your own quiz, and after you spotlighted mine? Or am I missing something?