I made a Red Dwarf themed Bracket City quiz

[Nick R]

You might know of The Atlantic’s daily nested clues quiz, Bracket City.

They’ve just released a tool called the Bracket City Suburb Builder, which lets anyone make quizzes in the same format.

I’ve used it to make one with a (mostly) Red Dwarf theme:
https://suburbs.bracket.city/4J381I

Give it a try and post your score! Or make your own and share it here!

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[Ian Symes]

I had no idea what I was doing, but enjoyed it, and got a score of 78. My main mistake was, not knowing how it worked, trying to be clever and skipping ahead once I’d figured out where each bracket was heading.

[Flap Jack]

Fun stuff. I got so many wrong answers because I kept trying to answer for segments that hadn’t had all their clues revealed yet (plus a couple instances of me using synonyms rather than the actual words). I got through the whole quiz without understanding the order I was supposed to answer things, but that’s my fault for never playing the quiz format this was based on. Final score: 33.

I got embarassingly stuck on the penultimate clue of

[@’s [average [“nivello” is Esperanto for “_”] of cruelty]ing]

because I just wasn’t expecting cryptic clues.

[Warbodog]

98 with 1 mistake, after seeing the explanation here that you have to do the highlighted parts first, and cheating just the once by looking up which translation it was in the Smega-Drive because that’s Series VII knowledge I don’t have.

[RunawayTrain]

Score: 0.0

Wrong guesses: 60

Clues peeked: 7

Answers revealed: 2

Score breakdown
Base score: 100.0
Wrong guess penalty: -120.0
Peek penalty: -35.0
Reveal penalty: -40.0
Final score: 0.0

Total keystrokes: 467

Minimum keystrokes needed: 145

Excess keystrokes: 322

I still don’t understand how it worked!  Most of those ‘wrong guesses’ were correct words just in the wrong place … I have no idea where it even started.  About 5 of those peeks were because I realised it let me type there 😅  Fun though!  Thanks for making it.

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