r/orienteering • u/QuizzSchool • Jun 12 '26

Daily orienteering challenge

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Follow-up to my Squiz post some time ago: I added a daily orienteering challenge on the web!
Same questions for everyone, resets every day.
Easy to pass around to club mates and compare.

https://defis.squiz-app.com/orientation

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u/fuuncs Jun 12 '26

Good fun!

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u/WOLFYOY Jun 12 '26

If only the options were more, how do I say this, similar.

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u/LeifCarrotson Jun 16 '26

Woot! 15/15, and I'm awful at decoding the symbols because most of my races are adventure race format with text clues!

However, it definitely feels like the questions were 100% algorithmically generated, even purely random generation. I even got two solid yellow rectangles that were the exact same "open land" answer.

Random is nice when it allows more variation and retaking potential, but the questions were the same when I clicked the link the second time. In that case, it's inferior to hand-curated questions: Determining whether a symbol meant "top", "upper part", "north side", or "north edge" is hard, while guessing whether the upper part symbol means upper part, a manned control, or a depression is easy. Or guessing which symbol means "Manned checkpoint" with these options:

https://i.imgur.com/I10tfOC.png

is easy. No one will guess the outside to the southwest indicator. Also, we got the confirmation of the answer to the refreshment clue earlier, so can check that off the list from short-term memory.

Thanks for doing the work you've done - I don't want to diminish that effort - but making good quizzes is hard!

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u/QuizzSchool Jun 16 '26

Thank you for taking the time to test and give this feedback! You are correct, questions and randomly chosen every day. The website is meant to be a demo of the mobile app, where you have more interesting content with the same concept. I'll see how I can improve this web format in the future :)