ext_76852 ([identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] undyingking 2007-10-23 09:46 am (UTC)

How about:

* A wrong answer is considered "good" if it receives a high proportion of votes.
* If the spread of quality amongst wrong answers to a question is wide enough, swap out the worst after some fixed number of uses.
* If the spread is narrow, randomly swap in any other dictionary word for the worst option, again after some fixed number of uses.

This will converge all questions to a situation where all but one of the false options are maximally confusing.

The tricky part is that you'd have to have a hand-coded list of all words which could be considered correct answers so that you never present one of those intending it as a false option!

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