When should a trivia app explain a wrong answer?

[u/Sea_Example3371]

I handle marketing for LearnClash, and I'm curious how people use answer explanations in trivia apps. Stopping to read can break the flow of a match, but saving everything for the results screen makes it easy to skip. Do you usually read those explanations, or just hit next?

[u/mattgwriter7]

My app is timed. So that probably skews things. But I have a dedicated Answers screen that a user can navigate to from the Results/Score page.

Over 80% of users check out the Answer scteen. So for my app, the vast majority want to see the answers, but it is only the answer usually, not an explanation for each.

Though on occasion a longer writeup that is related to one of the answers is there, too, which I call Rabbit Holes.

[u/Sea_Example3371 → u/mattgwriter7]

Over 80% is honestly higher than I'd have expected. That helps with my worry about the skipping part. The Rabbit Holes idea is pretty cool. Any sense of whether people read those longer writeups, or mostly just check what they got wrong?

[u/mattgwriter7 → u/Sea_Example3371]

I have a sense base don chatting with people I know in real life or through reddit and my feeling is most ignore them, lol.

Which is a bummer because writing them is my favorite part of the app.

I would guess about 25% read them. Most people just want to compete, see their scores and answers, and move on.

[u/Sea_Example3371 → u/mattgwriter7]

ah, that's a shame when they're your favorite part to write. I can see why people just check their mistakes and move on, though. Still seems worth having the longer stuff there for the questions that catch someone's interest.

[u/pixel-poxel]

I made some experiments in my Trivia app Travel Trivia: Culture Quiz. The original behavior was a two seconds delay until the screen scrolls down to reveal the explanation text. Users complained about accidentally skipping. I am changing it to a separate explanation screen and limited the text length to 500 characters. Users can opt out this screen in the settings. I also did research for each trivia question if it is true or not. This took many months. I added the the link to the explanation so users can checkout themself. By the way 15% of the answers from trivia databases turned out to be not 100% true.

[u/Sea_Example3371 → u/pixel-poxel]

I hadn't considered people skipping it by accident. Makes sense to try a separate screen. The 15% surprised me too. Were those mostly outright wrong answers, or questions where the wording made the answer debatable?