You might have seen or heard of Gregory aka Gregoriev, one of our many Ringorang players. Not only does the New Jersey resident play the game, he's also participated in several hangman games during the Friday video casts.

We caught up with him and did a quick interview. Check it out below!

GLENN: How did you find out about Ringorang?

GREGORY: In the first couple of weeks of Ringorang, everyone in the unfiction IRC room had somewhat of an obsession. This was before they made a ringorang IRC room, and everybody, once every hour, started discussing the question and the answer. I asked them, and they either outright ignored me, or they were talking too fast to see my question. One week, Mrs_Caro, or @CaroNZ on Twitter, finally told me about ringorang, and linked me to the site. Hooked ever since.

GLENN: You're one of the veterans of the game. What has been your favorite week and why?

GREGORY: That is a good question. All of the weeks were pretty fun save the football week and the Oscars. I watch neither, for lack of interest. My *most favorite* week was...hmm. That is a good question. Probably my first week, seeing as ever since, I have not won anything except in the raffles. On the first week, I was number 10, and got a shirt.

GLENN: On your Twitter, you have an avatar of Heath Ledger's Joker saying "Why So Cereal?" So I'm guessing you're either a fan of The Dark Knight or really like parodies. Or, maybe it's both. Explain.

GREGORY: More of parodies than of Heath Ledger(or Batman), actually. On one episode of South Park, entitled ManBearPig (I'm pretty sure there were others, though), the topic was Al Gore's obsession with global warming, and everytime he said Serious, he said Cereal instead. I've referenced that occasionally, ever since. When The Dark Knight came out, I wasn't excited. I don't usually ride the hype wave. Afterwards, several of my friends on AOL Instant Messenger switched their icons to Why So Serious? with a joker picture, and I had heard the phrase repeated countless times. The first thing that really popped into my head was "Why So Cereal?", but at that point, it was just a phrase in my mind. Several months later, I watched the movie through....questionable means. It was surprisingly good, and at the time, my friends and I were photoshopping practically everything parodically, so I came across that picture, and I remade it. Granted, the picture sucks, because I have amateur skills in image editing, but it sort of stuck. Beforehand, I channeled my Batman obsession through IRC, bothering everyone in the unfiction channel with stupid reenactments, and whatnot. Afterwards, I kind of mellowed out. There was even one humorous occasion in the unfiction thread for the Movie Guessing Game, where the movie chosen was the dark knight, they showed a very obvious frame, and I totally misguessed. Another friend of mine mocked me for days following the event.

GLENN: Why do you like playing Ringorang?

GREGORY: I...don't know. It's just fun. It's trivia, in a convenient form where you limit yourself. With a trivia site, I would just race through every question, and I could end up with an entire site of questions I already knew by the end of the day. This sort of limits it, putting it into rations, and while that would usually be a bad thing, this provides interesting nuggets of useful information and provides a bit of conversation in the Ringorang room for the following 10 or so minutes after. However, the decisive moment when I decided I would obsess over Ringorang is on a week where there was a question about marxism, and the answer was Karl Marx himself, and I thought to myself, "Wow, how obscure. It's this kind of information I could use more of in my life."

GLENN: Do you have a favorite topic that we at Ringorang should dedicate a whole week to?

GREGORY: History. Definitely. Best subject of mine, behind math, but I doubt you could pull off putting quadratics into trivia form. I love 20th and 19th century history, interests me the most. Best times of humanity.

In case you didn't know, we're on Plurk, so if you have an account on Plurk, be sure to befriend us. We'll drop some surprises there from time to time.

Here's our Plurk page. See you there!

Being born in the 80s, I was right in the Back to the Future timeframe. So all of the "McFlyyyyyyyyy!!!" and "You callin' me chicken?" was right in my wheel house.

I bring this up because of last night's question:

The DeLorean DMC-12 was manufactured in what country?

Ireland <--
Germany
America
West Arctica

I didn't know back during the Back to the Future days that you could buy the DeLorean. I thought it was just a revamped version of a 1980s Honda Civic.

And of course, because I was a kid, I was amazed at the doors. I thought that was the coolest thing ever, until my parents and the rest of society collectively said, "Uh, park right next to another car and try to get out."

As a kid, I thought that was the demise of the DeLorean, it's doors killed the coolness of the car. But it turned out that the company went bankrupt and the owner was busted for drug trafficking.

I wonder what the 2010 version of the DeLorean would look like? Would it still be a box? Or would it be like a PT Cruiser. Or, would it be like a Pontiac Grand Prix W-Body, but actually wide?

I think the DeLorean, should it ever be reborn, is one of those cars that should remain like a box. It just has that unique look.

Speaking of unique look, I see this ...



This made me scratch my head, and the more I'm looking at the picture, the more I believe it has been photoshopped.

Oh well, the DeLorean was still way cooler than the Fiat I had to squeeze into during those days.

I know you love or used to love "Wannabe" by Spice Girls.

It was released in 1996. At the time, I was still in high school, and every girl I knew (that didn't play basketball) loved this song. It came to a point where I said "If you wanna be my friend, you'll stop singing that song." But nope, the girls kept on singing it.

Combine that, and the release of the Macarena that year, and I was wondering if someone took my ear and expanded them, so that I would be forced to hear one of the two songs at all times during the day.

(By the way, a year later I met my best friend, and she was a total geek for all Marc Anthony songs. That just screams, "Please hit me with 10 baguettes, ECW style").

About six years later, I got into Dance Dance Revolution, and I started to learn all of the soundtracks that were used in making the different versions. A friend handed me a burned CD of Zipmania, one of the many nonstop mix albums (think MTV Party to Go) used for DDR, but it wasn't labeled.

About 15 really good songs in, the mix transfers from a Bad Girls remix to, "Soooooooo..." And I ejected the CD and put it aside, just sighing.

Sorry, everyone. We're all going to be very busy today that we won't be able to do a video cast.

We'll be back next week, so don't worry! =)

The Next Game is underway. We won't tell you where to go specifically, but we think you'll figure it out since it's on Twitter.

Its time to play

I can give you a couple names that are associated with more than one person. It's weird how some people associate a name with one person, and you might have a totally different perspective.

I bring this up because of the 8 p.m. PT question last night.

Q: Born John Richie in 1957, who grew up to play bass guitar for the Sex Pistols:

* -- Sid Vicious <--
* -- Johnny Rotten
* -- John Lydon
* -- John Lennon

When I saw the question, I said to myself, "It can't be Sid Vicious because he was a wrestler. So I'll go with Johnny Rotten."

And of course, I got it wrong.

For the rest of the night, I said to myself, "What in the ... but Sid Vicious IS a wrestler!" I waited until the morning to get the good knowledge from the rest of the Ringorang team regarding Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols.

Humor came when I Google searched "Sid Vicious." The first HTML search result was of the wrestler's Wikipedia page. But the first 20 image results are of the Sex Pistols member.

Well, who would you want to spend lunch with?



But Sid Vicious (both of them) aren't the only ones I can think of where saying one name gives you multiple famous people.

Here's another example:

I just heard about Steve Austin last night on the radio. The hosts mentioned Steve Austin, the Six-Million Dollar Man. But you know what's hilarious? Type "Steve Austin" on Google search, and the first result is the pro wrestler.

Speaking of Steve, how about Steve Smith? There's several of them: the sports analyst, the New York Giants player, or the Carolina Panthers player.

Don't forget Howard Stern the radio host as well as the guy with the "K" initial. Or, how about Howard Johnson? And what about Milton Bradley?

Let's sing some Kenny Rogers songs as you think of more of these situations. Wait, sing? You thought Kenny Rogers throws a baseball?

If you didn't know, playhouse76 figured out The Answer to "The Game."

Honestly, I thought it was going to be over in 2 days. I didn't think it was easy, but I was repeatedly bashed in the head with thoughts of "ARG PLAYERS WILL EAT YOU FOR BREAKFAST."

But then by Tuesday afternoon, we got no correct answers. Then Wednesday. Then Thursday. And then I started freaking out because either the game was too hard to begin with or everyone quit because it got hard.

And no, never did I imagine that because the topic was athletic-related that people would stop playing (although I was told today that apparently, it was the case for some *wink* *wink*) Reason being was that if you had any notion that it was sports, you had to be close to figuring it out.

Before I continue, I wanted to let you know that I'll be running another game starting Monday at 10 a.m. So be prepared. =)

Oh, and I want to point something out. I know how to work Photoshop, and that was just part of the storytelling. Apparently, a friend of mine playing The Game acted like a scrub and went off on a 5-minute tangent about how to recover pictures after saving over them.

Anyway, this is the picture that started it all:



It was actually an altered picture of the moment Derek Fisher hit "the 0.4 shot" in the playoffs against the San Antonio Spurs a few years ago. If you live in Southern California or Texas, you had to have known of this moment regardless of being a sports fan or not.



I slapped on a "Chrome" altering, and it turned out really well. So well that, when I tried to undo it by reversing the Chrome, it didn't work. =)

The First Clue

Mayor Mark Stodola and his office. I'm sure typing in Mayor Mark Stodola on a search engine gives you hundreds of results of "Little Rock, Ark." And that was the clue. Little Rock is where Derek Fisher was born and raised.

The Second Clue

There were two pictures of Salt Lake City buildings, including the temple. Salt Lake City is home to the Utah Jazz, where Derek Fisher played briefly.

The Third Clue

I posted two videos on the Plurk page: Rob Base's "It Takes Two" and Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do." They were similar, although it didn't look like it. Sheryl Crow mentions Santa Monica Boulevard. Type that in a search engine and what comes up? The 2 Freeway. Point was, the number 2 was the clue. I'm sure you can see in the un-altered picture how the 2 comes into play.

The Fourth Clue

The Great Lakes. Well, that doesn't make sense until you see ...

The Fifth Clue

A picture of purple and yellow, the Lakers colors. Put those together, and Los Angeles Lakers come to mind.

The Sixth Clue

This was the video of me trying to reenact Fisher's 0.4 shot. I was hoping that this was the dead giveaway, but it turned out that it wasn't.

By the way, here's the real 0.4 moment (btw, Bruce Bowen's reaction is still priceless).

Speaking of 0.4, that's the clue I wanted to avoid, but I gave it anyway.

Again, I thought it was going to be over in 2 days, but I guessed wrong. So I can't wait for next week. The winner will receive a Ringorang T-shirt.

Sometime about 2:30 p.m., we'll be hosting a live video chat. Come join us as we talk about the updates to Ringorang.

We'll talk about "The Game" as well as some other games.

You can watch the video cast below and take part in the chat.

Congrats to Playhouse76 for figuring out The Answer to "The Game."

The Answer was Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers.

To the ARG lovers, I wanted to know two things:

1. Is it OK to give out the responses that people guessed? (I don't want to say "should we" because after seeing some of the guesses, I was inclined to do it right away).

2. Is it OK to explain the story and what we did?

Our next game will likely be starting Monday, or soon after. More to come during today's videocast.

Q:

Jack Black has a brief role in what post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner film, once the most expensive film ever made?

A:
Waterworld <<<<
The Postman
Message in a Bottle
Robin Hood: Prince of Accents

"High above the mucky-muck, castle made of clouds,
There sits Wonderboy, sitting oh so proudly"

Thanks to our developers, our stats are now even more in depth. A lot of it is still a work in progress, and I'm going to need a few days to figure out how to process everything. As I've said in the past, I can handle statistics, but I'm not a sabermetrics type of person that eats numbers like they're Tic-Tacs.

And if you're wondering what the stats look like, check it out:



That's a lot of numbers. We'll be able to share with you some of the numbers when appropriate, but a lot of this will probably be in-house until we figure out how to present all of this.

Also, keep in mind that if you are having a dallions issue, e-mail us or head to the feedback forum and we'll be able to check out what happened.

Tygr20 brought this up during the live chat (and we'll be doing another one tomorrow), and I thought it was interesting.

Are there questions out there where you hesitate because it seems too easy?

It happened to me earlier today, during the Jackson 5 question (the answer was Michael). I thought "Michael" right away, but then I said to myself that it couldn't be that because it's too obvious. So I lost dallions because I second-guessed myself. I probably would have gotten 285-290 dallions had I just went with it.

Let me know if this has happened to you, especially during this week's challenge.

Q:
Which Al Pacino film is a remake of a 1932 film produced by Howard Hughes?

A:
Carlito's Way
Scarface <<<<
Frankie and Johnnie
Ocean's 1138

The original "Scarface" was notorious Chicago criminal Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone. Wikipedia [citation needed] helpfully states his occupation as "gangster, bootlegger, racketeer," and he is generally understood to be behind the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre, an effort to eliminate a rival gang infringing on his booze bootlegging.

Some time before he built the Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes produced an adaptation of a novel about the Capone-inspired Tony "Scarface" Camonte's rise to power. Originally titled "Scarface: The Shame of a Nation," the film featured the phrase "The world is yours" on a billboard.

"The world is yours" ends up on a blimp in the 1983 remake, which also features Tony "Scarface" Montana's oft-quoted theory of success:

"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. "

...as well as his equally oft-quoted manner of introducing his gun. The film ended up being a point of reference for many a hip-hop artist, especially in the late 80s and early 90s (Search "Scarface" on YouTube and see for yourself). And, of course, you're not really of any cultural significance unless you've been parodied on The Simpsons...

A mulligan on the March 9th 9:56PM PT question:

Who was the first playable female character in Nintendo's Mario series of games?

Princess Peach <<<<
Princess Toadstool
Princess Daisy
Princess Di

The answer choices are confusing as Peach and Toadstool are two different names for the same character. According to this (absurdly long) game guide: she is Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros. 2, when you can first play as the character, she is referred to simply as "Princess." The name Peach does not appear in-game until Super Mario 64.

Apologies for the oversight and thanks to everyone who pointed it out. I will now be thoroughly flogged by the staff.

Just for the record, I always enjoyed Super Mario Bros. 2.

When the team and I were talking about how to present the game to you, one of the things we debated was the presentation. My goal was to go all over the board, but there was talk about just drowning you all with information and stats.

So let me bore you ...

I wanted to do something with Photoshop the other day but I totally F'd up because I saved over the picture after making the mistakes. And now I can't find the original picture. My hope is that my friend saved the original picture and I can finish the job.

Well, here's how it looks now ...



After changing it to chrome, I accidentally saved it. So I said F it and did some more photoshop work to the picture just for kicks. Now, it actually looks really cool.

The picture was part of this larger presentation that I was going to have later in the week. I was hoping to get an interview with Mayor Mark Stodola, but I seriously doubt it. (I think my trip to Philadelphia could include a stop near Stodola's office).

If I get the original picture, I will let you all know, because I think the overall picture is going to be awesome.

Hey everyone, starting Monday at 10 a.m. PT, we're going to play a game.

Here's your task: You need to figure out "The Answer" based on the clues that we give you. Now, we're not going to just give you a clue, you're going to have to figure it out, whether it's deciphering a blog entry or twitter entry, answering a question or understanding a video.

I think a few of you have played this game before. If the clues end up being "Boston Celtics," "Marshmallows," "Milk" and "Battle Creek," then The Answer is Lucky Charms.

The first person to get it right wins a gift certificate from Fandango.

This is probably the unique part of the contest; each game we play will be of the personality of the Ringorang team member that came up with it. Therefore, the clues you will eventually get will be based on the person that is leading the game. Also, the person leading the game will give out clues at their own pace. Someone might give out a clue a day, others might give out all the clues in a day. You might have to go to 1 site, or maybe you have to go to 20 sites (and if you get lost, blame the game conductor =P).

Oh, and one more thing, we'll only tell you where to go first. It's up to you to figure out where to go next. You don't have to have all of the clues to figure out The Answer, but it definitely will help.

Maybe knowing who is leading the game will give you an idea of what The Answer might be. But I wouldn't rely on that.

And once you know, send your guess to contact at ringorang dot com (with the @ and .) with the headline "THE ANSWER IS."

You can only guess twice a day.

With that in mind, I will be leading the first game.

If you think you know The Answer already, stand up. Now you can sit down because you have no idea.

See you at 10 a.m. Monday here on the blog, and get ready to have some fun.

Sometime about 2:30 p.m., we'll be hosting a live video chat. Come join us as we talk about the updates to Ringorang.

Also, be prepared to be bombarded with the amount of side games that we're going to tell you about. We're going to be on OMGPOP, so if you're not a member of that very fun site, be sure to sign up.

You can watch the video cast below and take part in the chat.

The developers have told us that the bug in which players didn't receive the alert through the AIR client has been fixed. Therefore, you should be able to play Ringorang using the AIR client without any worry about missing a question.

Also, some players had told us that, through their Internet browser, they weren't receiving the bonus after getting three in a row correct. Turns out, they were receiving the bonus 150 dallions, but there was no notification. That has been fixed as well.

Keep in mind, when you earn Bonus City, you'll see this screen:



One more thing ... there's still a little bit of confusion about how and when you get Bonus City, so I'll try to clarify it.

You DO NOT earn Bonus City after getting just three questions correct. Example, if your play history is:

Miss, Correct, Miss, Miss, Correct, Pass, Correct

... you do not earn Bonus City. You might have answered three questions correctly, but they weren't three in a row.

Also, once you earn Bonus City, you don't keep earning Bonus City after every question until you miss (known as the pyramid scoring system). Example, if your play history is:

Correct, Correct, Correct, Correct, Correct, Miss

... you have only earned Bonus City once, not three times. In this example, the player got three questions in a row correct and received Bonus City. However, the streak starts over. Therefore, the player's next two questions, which were both correct, are not Bonus City.

Here's a detailed description of how to get Bonus City.

If you have any questions, be sure to let us know here or through the feedback forum.

Several people have reported the AIR client not working properly; that they're not receiving a question when it's time to play.

Our developers are taking a look into the situation and we hope to get the issue resolved right away.

In the meantime, to make sure you don't miss a question, head to the Ringorang game page and leave it open (also, make sure you're logged in there; just because you're logged into the AIR client does not automatically mean you're logged in on the Internet browser). So far, playing through the Internet browser is fine.

HOWEVER, if you minimize the Ringorang game page, you will not hear the ring tone. Please keep that in mind.

Again, we hope to have the AIR client issue resolved as soon as possible. If you're still receiving questions through the AIR client, you should be OK, but you might want to open up the Ringorang game page just to be safe.

Thanks a lot, and we apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any questions, be sure to let us know here or on the feedback forum.

Q:
Which modern term for an American originally came from an insult aimed at Dutch settlers or pirates?

A:
Yankee <<<<
Gringo
Johnnies
Obamaniacs

So says Online Etymology:

It may be from Dutch Janke, literally "Little John," dim. of common personal name Jan... It originally seems to have been applied insultingly to Dutch, especially freebooters, before they turned around and slapped it on the English.

Freebooter is from the word vrijbuiter, a combination of the Dutch words for "plunder" and "booty." In other words, pirates. Avast!

The first recording of "yankee" as a term of derision used by the British dates to 1775.

And there is this handy definition, from author E.B. White:

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.

To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.

To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.

To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.

To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.

And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

Last week, we had a brief interview with Joy, who you may know as Joyofzen on various sites. She's a Ringorang veteran, which is why we wanted to do a quick Q&A session. Here it is below:

GLENN: How did you find out about Ringorang?

JOY: I had to think back on this one, jivebotic is to blame. I met him on 12seconds and he was doing 12s about you guys and stuff he won. Took me awhile to be persuaded though, now I'm ruined for life.

GLENN: Do you have a funny moment playing Ringorang?

JOY: Did I wait to do something because of Ringorang? hahahahaha ALL the freaking time! I wait to go pee, do laundry, eat, shower, go out anywhere... And it never fails that shortly after I get up and am in another room when I hear the ringoding and come running like a mad woman to get to it in time. I am rather clumsy too, so you can imagine the hilarity. When I'm at school or work I'm DYING because I can't play.

GLENN: You are active on 12seconds.tv. What's the general theme of your videos?

JOY: I just looked at some vids I've done and there isn't really a theme, they are pretty random. From food, to dogs, to squirrels, to stress, to road trips, to Ringorang tweetups... I think I have a little bit of everything.

GLENN: What makes Ringorang interesting for you?

JOY: Well, I pretty much suck at it, but the questions keep it interesting. I always feel like I'm learning a fun fact when I play. I did actually make it in the top 10 this week though by some miracle! woot woot! Oh, and the drawings make it interesting too since I won a shirt and an Amazon gift card that way!

GLENN: We've brought back Bonus City. With that aside, if you could make one change to Ringorang right now, what would it be and why?

JOY: Excited to have bonus city back :) The only change I'd like to see is the addition of a mobile version. I don't have net on my phone, but so many other people do and they'd be hooked. It'd be good for those who aren't attached to a computer all the time, it would take away that advantage.

GLENN: We were thinking of having shorter tournaments. Would you prefer a one-day, or a weekend tourney if you had to choose one or the other, and why?

JOY: I like the weekend tourneys for the same reason as I was just talking about having a mobile version. For the people who aren't at the computer on the weekdays, but are on the weekends, it'd be fun for them to have a fighting chance to get on the leaderboard and win.

The team and I have talked about asking you the players to fill out a survey that encompasses everything about Ringorang. We want to know a lot things regarding what can make the game and the whole Ringorang experience more enjoyable for you.

This survey is long; yep, I'm forewarning you now about it because it's nearly 30 questions. Take your time in answering the questions, we want to make sure you have enough time to go through all of the questions we ask. Also, you can only take the survey once.

Here's Part 1 of the survey.

When you're done with that, head to Part 2.

And when you've completed those, go to Part 3.

Thanks for taking the time to complete it. As we've said in the past, we do meet regarding the results, and we go over what you all have to say, whether the results are surprising or not surprising. The more people that fill it out, the better idea we can get of what kind of players we have playing our game.

Thanks again!

There might be some confusion regarding the bonus streak and Bonus City; hopefully we can clear things up.

On the browser or AIR client, there's a row that says "Bonus Streak." It's pictured below:



As you can see, the Bonus Streak for this person is 0. That means one of three things have happened:

* -- The person has just started playing and hasn't received or played a question yet.
* -- The person's last try of a question was incorrect
* -- The person received Bonus City

Bonus Streak implies a player's current run to Bonus City. Therefore, you will only see a 0, 1 or 2. If you have a 2, that means the next question you get correctly will give you Bonus City. And when you do that, the Bonus Streak resets to 0.

Any time you break your streak, Bonus Streak will reset to 0.

If you have any questions, let us know here or on the feedback forum.

Q: The term "Nazi" is abbreviated from the first German word of Hitler's political party, which translates into what?

A:
Master Race
National Socialist <<<<
Purity
"Mein fuehrer, I can walk!"

Hitler's political party was the NSDAP: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist German Workers' Party, and never referred to itself as the Nazi party or Nazi Germany. (Of course, Germany doesn't refer to itself as "Germany" -- in the native tongue, the country is Deutschland.)

The phrase "Nazi Germany" was spread by German exiles moving abroad, while the official name under the NSDAP was Deutches Reich and later, Großdeutsches Reich. According to the Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (via Online Etymology Dictionary), opponents of National Socialism used Nazi as a colloquial term to mean a foolish, clumsy, or awkward person, as derived from the proper name Ignatz, a German form of Ignatius.

Nowadays, Nazi is Hollywood-speak for "Oscar bait." Just ask Kate Winslet.

That's right, Bonus City has been put back into Ringorang. Scores should be a lot higher in future games (only one person reached 10,000 dallions last week; we used to average about five players doing it).

It's a great little incentive to those that continue to do well. For those who have just joined us, or for those who have forgotten, here's how Bonus City works.

Everytime you answer three questions in a row correctly, you receive 150 bonus dallions. This is not a one-time deal. You will receive 150 bonus dallions everytime you answer three questions in a row correctly.

This is an example of what you'll see when you get Bonus City:



Keep in mind that you do not have to be around three consecutive hours to reach Bonus City (although we'd love you if you did). You can answer two questions in a row correctly, go to sleep, wake up and answer a question several hours later, get it right and still receive Bonus City.

Now, how do you lose your streak? There's several ways:

* -- You answer the question incorrectly (Obviously, but I have to say it because someone out there will ask about this)
* -- You run out of time
* -- You Pass

I'll break it down further.

When it's time to answer a question, you see this screen:



Let's say you press "YES." Your streak is on the line from that point on, so you better get it right.

However, let's say you press "NO." You don't see the question, and your streak remains intact.

Here's a third scenario; let's say you do NOTHING and it times out. Your streak remains intact. This is important to know. In the past, you had to turn off your browser and the game client because you lost your streak if you left your browser open and didn't answer the question. That is not the case anymore.

Alright, so you pressed "YES," and you see the question, which will look like this screen:



If you press "PASS," you lose your streak.

If you let the timer run out, you lose your streak.

If you get the question wrong, you lose your streak.

If you get the question correct, your streak remains intact.

The general thing to know about Bonus City is this: If you say Yes when it's time to play, your streak is on the line.

One final note: If you let the timer run out, you will not lose any dallions.

If you have any questions, be sure to let us know here or on the feedback forum.