T-Squared: QRANK's Final Answer
This morning some of our readers go cold turkey.
Twenty months ago, we inaugurated our partnership with QRANK, a daily news quiz with questions and answers pulled straight from Tribune articles. Created by Austin-based Ricochet Labs, QRANK became an addiction for many Trib loyalists, who competed to prove their command of current events and earn prizes and bragging rights.
Sad to say, August was our last month to host QRANK games. Ricochet Labs is in the process of selling the QRANK technology to another game company. That company will build upon what the Ricochet team started and take the social ...
Comments (5)
Bill Moore
OH NO!
Joe Deshotel
sad day!
Susan Rushing
WAH! I will miss it!
Susan Syler
This article sounds like it was written by two people - Evan Smith at the beginning and the founder of Ricochet Labs towards the end. Who is Trib's new hire?
Bill Carson
QRANK is a fun game, and I enjoyed playing it here at the Trib. However, if the game has one weakness, it would have to be cheating. Each month, there were always a few players (perhaps the same player) who managed to achieve--day after day--astronomically high scores, way above the rest of the field. The only viable explanation is that these players were cheating, probably by playing under more than one user name.