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Understand exactly how Doozy scores a quiz: how points are earned, how the speed bonus works, why every quiz is scored out of 1000, and how Trivia is different. To see how scores combine across a series of quizzes, see Challenges.

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⚡ The short version

A quiz score has two parts:
  1. Correctness: getting questions right. Each question counts by its weight (Standard, Double, or Triple), set on the quiz.
  2. Speed bonus: optional extra for answering quickly. Set when you schedule the quiz (or on a challenge), and off by default.
each question you get right  →  counts for its weight (+ speed bonus, if on)
each question you get wrong  →  counts for nothing
To keep every quiz comparable, your total is rescaled to a score out of 1000. A flawless run is 1000. Trivia is the one exception and keeps its classic “points + position” style.
This page describes how scoring works for your team and how to set it up. People always see their own correct and incorrect results; the leaderboard settings only control who sees ranks and the board.

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👥 For your team: what a score means

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Getting answers right

Get a question right and it counts toward your score; get it wrong and it counts for nothing. There’s no penalty for a wrong answer beyond missing out on that question. Most quizzes count every question equally, though a question can be weighted to count more (see the admin section below).

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The speed bonus

If the speed bonus is turned on, answering quickly earns extra points on top of a correct answer. The bonus is biggest the instant a question posts and shrinks steadily until it reaches zero at the end of the bonus window. After that, a correct answer is still worth full correctness points, just no bonus. The speed bonus can add up to half again on top of a correct answer, so a perfect, instant answer counts for 1.5× a correct-but-slow one. You’re racing the clock, not other people, so you can earn the full bonus even if you’re the only one playing. If the speed bonus is off, only correctness counts and timing makes no difference.

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Your “X / Y”

Next to your score you’ll see something like 4 / 5. That’s how many you got right out of how many were delivered to you. A delivered question you didn’t answer counts as a miss, so skipping one shows as “3 / 5”, not “3 / 3”.

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Why your score is out of 1000

A quiz might have 5 questions or 50, and some may count more than others. To keep every quiz on the same footing (and to let scores add up across a challenge), Doozy rescales your total to a score out of 1000. A perfect run is exactly 1000, and people who tie at the top each get 1000 (ties are never split). So getting 4 of 5 equally weighted questions right, with no speed bonus, shows as 800 / 1000.

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Late answers

If a quiz has a due date and the organizer turned on partial credit, answers submitted after the due date (but before the quiz closes) earn a reduced share of their normal credit and no speed bonus. Answer on time to earn full points.

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🛠️ For admins: setting up scoring

Scoring uses the same controls in two places:
  • On a single quiz’s schedule: the scoring options when you schedule a quiz.
  • On a challenge: set once and applied uniformly to every quiz in it (see Challenges).

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Question weighting

You can’t put a custom point value on a question. Instead, each question has a weight that decides how much it counts toward the score:
WeightCounts as
Standard (default)Once
DoubleTwice
TripleThree times
New questions start at Standard. Set a question to Double or Triple to give it a bigger share of the quiz’s 1000 points. With every question at Standard, they all count equally.

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Speed bonus: on or off

SettingWhat players experience
No speed bonus (default)Only correctness counts; timing is irrelevant.
Speed bonusFaster correct answers earn extra, decaying to zero across the bonus window.
When the speed bonus is on, you also set the bonus window: how long after a question posts the bonus takes to decay to zero. It defaults to 1 hour and can be set in minutes, hours, or days. Shorter windows reward only the very quickest answers.
The speed bonus tops out at +50%: answering the instant a question posts counts for 1.5× its normal credit, decaying to no bonus by the end of the window. This headroom is built into the out-of-1000 rescaling, so a flawless, instant run lands at exactly 1000 and never more.

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Late submissions

If a quiz has a due date, you choose what a late-but-still-open answer is worth:
SettingEffect
Full points (default)Late answers score the same as on-time ones, until the quiz closes.
Partial creditLate correct answers earn a set share of their normal credit (default 50%) and no speed bonus.
Partial credit only takes effect if the quiz has a due date. Answers after the quiz fully closes are rejected and never scored.

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Leaderboard visibility

The leaderboard control sets who sees what. People always see their own results either way, and admins always see the full board.
OptionWhat people see
LeaderboardEveryone sees the full ranked board with names and scores.
Own rankEach person sees only their own standing (e.g. “#3 of 24”).
HiddenNo rank and no board, just each person’s own score.

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🧠 Trivia is different

Trivia (the recurring weekly or monthly quiz) keeps its classic arcade scoring and is not rescaled to 1000:
  • Each correct answer is worth a flat 100 points.
  • The first to answer correctly gets a +20 position bonus, the second +19, down to +1 for the 20th, then nothing.
  • Boards show raw “X pts” plus your rank.
Because that position bonus is about beating the room rather than the clock, Trivia scores aren’t normalized and Trivia can’t be part of a challenge. See Trivia and Icebreakers for more.

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🔢 Worked examples

A 5-question quiz where every question is Standard weight, so each is an equal share of the 1000. Dana gets 4 right.
earned = 4 of the 5 equal shares
score  = 4 / 5 × 1000 = 800     →  "800 / 1000",  "4 / 5"
A 5-question quiz with four Standard questions and one Double. The Double counts twice, so the quiz is scored over 6 shares (4 × 1 + 1 × 2).
miss one Standard question   → earned 5 of 6 shares → 833 / 1000
miss the Double question     → earned 4 of 6 shares → 667 / 1000
Same number wrong, different score: the Double question carries more weight.
A one-question quiz with the speed bonus on (1-hour window). The most you can score is 1000, by answering correctly the instant the question posts.
correct, instant              →  1000 / 1000   (full speed bonus)
correct, halfway through      →   833 / 1000   (half the speed bonus)
correct, at the window's end  →   667 / 1000   (bonus gone)
wrong                         →     0 / 1000
A correct answer always beats a wrong one, and among correct answers the quicker one ranks higher. Only a perfect, instant run reaches 1000.
A trivia question worth the flat 100. Priya answers correctly first, Alex second.
Priya = 100 + 20 (first)  = 120 pts
Alex  = 100 + 19 (second) = 119 pts
Shown raw as “120 pts” and “119 pts” with each player’s rank. No /1000 here.

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🏆 What a board looks like

A normal (rescaled) quiz board: 
🏆  Weekly Knowledge Check

  1.  Dana Okafor        1000 / 1000   ·  5 / 5
  2.  Sam Rivera          833 / 1000   ·  4 / 5
  3.  Jordan Lee          800 / 1000   ·  4 / 5
  4.  Priya Shah          600 / 1000   ·  3 / 5
A Trivia board (raw points + position): 
🧠  Trivia this week

  1.  Priya Shah         420 pts
  2.  Alex Morgan        399 pts
  3.  Dana Okafor        300 pts

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❓ FAQ

So every quiz is comparable and scores add up cleanly across a challenge. Your raw points are rescaled; a perfect run is always 1000.
On a quiz with the speed bonus on, the maximum (1000) assumes you answered every question correctly and instantly. Correct-but-slower answers land below 1000.
No. A wrong answer just earns nothing for that question. There’s no negative scoring.
The score is never split. With no speed bonus, everyone who gets every question right ties at the full 1000. With the speed bonus on, getting everything right isn’t enough to reach 1000 on its own; you also need to be quick. So the speed bonus is what separates otherwise-tied players, and only a perfect, instant run hits 1000.
Leaderboards refresh within a few seconds. Re-open the board and it’ll catch up.

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🔗 Related

Challenges

Combine quizzes into one running leaderboard

Schedule a quiz

Set scoring and delivery when you send a quiz

Quiz results

View participation, scores, and feedback

Trivia

The recurring trivia game and its scoring