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One of the highlights of 2024 was the unexpected #flashquiz, attracting users from every corner of Steemit who worked together in an effort to unravel steemcurator's crazy clues.

From Google Maps, to Craig's List, the clues were addictive and even led to one user contacting some random person in the USA to enquire whether their campervan was still for sale!

Inspired by this (in my opinion), the Learning Challenges were borne and with nobody feeling confident enough to teach "Cryptic Clue Solving", we've been devoid of the challenge that we so enjoyed over the Summer.

So, to bring a little bit of that life back for 2025, I'll be running a year-long, Steemit Quiz.

⚙ How will it work?

To start off, get your friends together and enter a team in the comments below. Teams can be any size from 1 to 5 users and you're welcome to enter with as many scam filled teams as you wish. If you want to enter alone, then you can. If you want to enter a team with 5 of your alt. accounts, you can do that too. My recommendation though, would be to create a team of 5 people from different time zones who read and post within a variety of communities - I'll frequently include Steemit themed rounds so the more of the Steemit World you can cover, the better.

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📊 What is the format?

Each week, on a Sunday (UK Time), I will announce the Rounds for the forthcoming week. Each week, there will be 3 Rounds of 10 Questions.

Round 1 - Monday & Tuesday
Round 2 - Wednesday & Thursday
Round 3 - Friday & Saturday

The questions will appear in the comments of Sunday's Announcement Post at random intervals. I might post a question each hour, I might post all 10 questions in a round before I go to bed. My intention is to make it so random, that there's no advantage to European Users than there is to any other continent. (You'll now see why a mixed team will work well.)

🚩 How many guesses do I get?

For each question, each team member is entitled to 1 attempt at the answer. DO NOT EDIT YOUR ANSWER! Any edited answers will be muted and will therefore be ineligible. Only the FIRST correct answer will be awarded the prize for that question.

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🏆 What are the prizes?

For the first person to answer correctly, they will receive a 100% upvote from me. According to Steemworld, that's worth $0.88 so over the course of each week, there's $26.40 in my upvotes available. In addition to this, you'll also score 1 point for your team with the highest scoring team each week receiving 10% beneficiary (split across team members) from the next week's post. Another 10% of each week's post (starting with this one) will go into a pot (@el-gorila) which will be divided amongst the winning team at the end of the year.

In total, the prize pool could be in the region of $1,500 over the course of the quiz.

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What if I'm late to join?

That's no problem. Teams can enter any time but if you want the big prize at the end of the year, the sooner you join, the better.

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What do I do now?

It's time to get your team together.

Please spread the word - the more people who join in, the more fun we'll have.

Look out for Week 1 which I'll be posting on the 5th January 2025.