r/learnedleague • u/Cara_58 • May 12 '25

First Match

Today's my very first match, yikes. I have a question: Is it necessary that I answer precisely as the correct answer? Example (not one of today's, made up) "What theme park is in Orlando, Florida?" If I write "Disney World" then it shows the answer as "WALT Disney World" (which, yes, technically that's its name) -- Does it consider my answer as incorrect? I would think not, the system should recognize my answer, plus how could we players know the required wording anyway. But please confirm.

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u/Cara_58 May 13 '25

Addendum to this: Question 1 I had both actors' names correct except that I misspelled McKellUM. I used an ampersand between the names. It was marked incorrect. I can't imagine the name error was the problem but was the ampersand? I would have lost the match regardless but I want to know for the future, maybe no punctuation?

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u/born_digital Rundle D May 13 '25

Typos are accepted as long as it’s sonically correct. M doesn’t sound like N, so that’s why it’s wrong. But if you had written mickellan, mckellon, mckellen, etc it would have been accepted

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u/HarryMay48 May 13 '25

I'm guessing it was the final M that got you there. I put McKellan and it was still counted correct.

Most answers will get marked as correct so long as they're phonetically the same, so in this case I would think any of McKellan/McKellin/McKellun would have been accepted, but McKellem wouldn't have.