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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4973591, member: 105098"]Just stick with the standard dictionary definition "a flat, typically round piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money".</p><p><br /></p><p>To restrict potentially also correct answers, start off with the rule that "all questions have only one acceptable answer, although, there may be other answers. besides the one I am looking for that is the correct one." answer with, That's not the answer we are looking for here. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>jeopardy! for instance tries to avoid questions with more than one correct answer, but it's still happens from time to time. they just give credit for any of the correct answers when it happens and fix the score later after it's protested and looked at. </p><p><br /></p><p>You could also do that, believe it or not, it's pretty difficult to weed out every potential answer to a question and be certain their is only one right answer without setting a rule to deal with it if it occurs.</p><p><br /></p><p>instead of defining everything, much easier to define how to handle the situation in the rules instead and either only accept the one answer, or credit any correct answer even if it's the one you aren't looking for exactly but still correct to the question. if rules apply equally in every situation, it doesn't create unfairness. it's when you get caught off guard and have to make it up as you go along it becomes a mess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4973591, member: 105098"]Just stick with the standard dictionary definition "a flat, typically round piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money". To restrict potentially also correct answers, start off with the rule that "all questions have only one acceptable answer, although, there may be other answers. besides the one I am looking for that is the correct one." answer with, That's not the answer we are looking for here. jeopardy! for instance tries to avoid questions with more than one correct answer, but it's still happens from time to time. they just give credit for any of the correct answers when it happens and fix the score later after it's protested and looked at. You could also do that, believe it or not, it's pretty difficult to weed out every potential answer to a question and be certain their is only one right answer without setting a rule to deal with it if it occurs. instead of defining everything, much easier to define how to handle the situation in the rules instead and either only accept the one answer, or credit any correct answer even if it's the one you aren't looking for exactly but still correct to the question. if rules apply equally in every situation, it doesn't create unfairness. it's when you get caught off guard and have to make it up as you go along it becomes a mess.[/QUOTE]
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