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The ceiling for original quizzes

Submitted by AnAmerican on July 4, 2025
I've been thinking about this recently. At some point, do you think that quiz makers may run out of unique ideas for quizzes on JetPunk? I'm definitely not the first person to wonder this, but I feel like outside of new quiz formats, the number of original and featured quizzes has been slowing down a little bit. Granted there are still quite a few original ideas as well as old quizzes that could be improved on, but most good quiz ideas have already been taken advantage of.

One of the criteria for featured quizzes is that they shouldn't be too esoteric, and the average quiz taker should be able to take it and do at least somewhat well, but do you think this is limiting? I'm not saying at all that you should make quizzes only with the intention that they will get featured, but that is one of the aspirations for many quiz makers, including me. Obviously Quizmaster has the right to do whatever he wants since it's his site.

Anyways, just an idea that I've been thinking about, and I could be wrong about it, but I just wanted to give my take.

7 Comments
Lindwyrm
+3
Level 82
Jul 4, 2025
I've been thinking about that too, but I think it will take a good while. I see a lot of cool quizzes being made every day tbh.
AnAmerican
+1
Level 78
Jul 4, 2025
Yeah there are for sure many good and interesting quizzes still being made, and I don't think the ceiling for original quizzes has been reached yet. I'm just worried that it's not far off from now.
Dimby
+3
Level 83
Jul 4, 2025
If I weren’t so dang busy these days I’d be pumping out quizzes on the daily. Since there are multiple ways to quiz the same information, I don’t see any approaching limit on new quizzes.
nichster
+2
Level 57
Jul 5, 2025
It takes me longer nowadays to come up with new ideas, especially given the sheer quantity of quizzes I or others have done. But I still post and update a steady stream of new quizzes so it isn't impossible.
XYU
+3
Level 62
Jul 5, 2025
I know what you mean; most things have been done already, and I think the way ahead is to have multi-part quizzes where the user has to solve a puzzle to reach the answer. For instance, unscramble an anagram of a person's name, and then match them to the country that they're from.
XYU
+2
Level 62
Jul 5, 2025
Another possibility is to add some humour to the proceedings, and then that opens the door to all sorts of things.
graphicality
+3
Level 54
Jul 5, 2025
For basic quizzes? Absolutely. Probably already reached that ceiling.

Realistically? Never.

For one, there are new things being made all the time (TV shows, people becoming famous, new fields of science) so there will always be new things to make quizzes on.

Secondly, there is always more and better data coming out which will help with new topics to make quizzes on that weren't possible before because there was no data.

Plus, people are so freaking creative. There are literally endless possibilities of things to think about and to quiz each other on.

TL;DR: Always increasingly more new things to create quizzes on, people are too creative to run out of ideas.

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