Trivia Emporium

Greetings! I am getting close to having a sellable version of a Trivia Bot, and currently have one running 24/7 for testing purposes. The bot I have up right now has 2458 questions in it, but theoretically can hold tens of thousands. Basically the bot asks a question and gives anyone nearby 60 seconds to blurt out the answer. If no one gets it in that time, it tells everyone what the answer was and moves on. It keeps track of scores, and can currently display the top five players. Eventually, I would like to sell not only the trivia bot, but pre-packaged themed question bundles (with around 2000 questions each). On top of which, I was thinking of running weekly contests in which the top 3-5 players each week win a prize (or at least recognition of some sort). Ideas are always welcome.

If you'd like to try out the current version, just head to Rose (120, 90). I have a deck setup with a few chairs, and there is also a small glass room that will serve as the shop when I'm finished. A few useful commands when you are near the bot:

score - shows your current score
top5 - shows top five players
repeat - repeats last question
lastanswer - shows all acceptable answers to previous question
typo - reports a typo on the last question asked so I can fix it

YES, there are PLENTY of typos still present.

Feel free to use the typo command if the answer was too specific, also. For example, if the answer is "the eiffel tower" and "eiffel tower" was not accepted.

Also, any and all suggestions are welcome. Prior to the final bot version, I'll be holding a small tournament and the winners can have a free copy stocked with several questions to play with.

Enjoy.

Use the substring functions

That would probably work nicely for my example. Silly me.

Thanks.