SporcleReviews 44

Have never witnessed such a horribly ran site in my life. Paying to remove ads is not the answer when you can't even enjoy the site at all on mobile due to huge ads covering the entire quiz.
You might as well not even bother creating quizzes because they only publish their payers and/or special members they cater too for publishing. You always see the same members be chosen. It's like a lame high school clique.
Cannot believe this site has survived past 2011 as that was its downfall.

The user, SporcleEXP, which is listed as Admin, steals unpublished quizzes by other users and posts them as its own. I used to create quizzes on Sporcle but then decided to stop using the site and deleted my account. I decided recently to rejoin and have found several of my quizzes I created before deleting my profile on the site as unpublished quizzes under the user name SporcleEXP.
https://www.sporcle.com/user/SporcleEXP

Every quiz on the following playlist, I created before I deleted my account:
https://www.sporcle.com/playlists/SporcleExp/razzie-awards

Venue was very small. Computer Monitor on very low table making pics impossible to see. "DJ" had speakers CRANKED with repeated requests to lower volume ignored.
Sporcle questions were confusing at best preferring to obscure enough information to even relate category to question. Several of the "clues" were misleading, again promoting confusion as to what was even the actual question.
Several of the "answers" had nothing to do with the question and two of the answers were pointedly incorrect.
If this were my only Trivia experience, I would think I had a problem, but it isn't, and I don't.
Cannot recommend. Will continue to relay my experience to every bar and restaurant who considers these yoyo's for entertainment.

The ads and moderators have ruined the site. They blocked my account stating my account is associated with an account associated with violating their terms, which it isn't. I can no longer create quizzes or play showdowns. Sporcle responded to my email inquiring about this with the following response: "After deliberation among site moderators, we decided that we will not be lifting your site block at this time. We may reconsider our decision in the future, however." The site is run by unpaid moderators, most likely teenagers. Being an unpaid moderator on a free gaming website is probably their only power in life. The site has been ruined by the intrusive ads and the unpaid moderators on a power trip.

Bunch of nerds on here who downvote every comment if you're not in their "cliche". It's become a site of bullying and degrading people who are not "published". Don't understand the appeal. Not to mention I know of two people who have several multi-accounts who are not banned but I had a legit reason to have multi-accounts in a multi-family household and they banned my multi-accounts. Worst site ever who caters to people who probably give them thousands a year to play the same trivia you can play free everywhere else. Dumb.

Registered for a little over a year and have learnt much regards Geography and Other. More to come...

I really enjoy playing the quizzes on this site and they can be very educational. The downside is that the owners of the site seem desperate for people to subscribe by placing a massive amount of ads on the site which cover up some of the quizzes, these are removed if you subscribe which I don't intend to do as I understand you get bombarded with emails. Ad block plus eventually dealt with this but when you have completed a quiz they put very sarcastic comments in an attempt to belittle you if you don't do very well - you can remove these comments only if you subscribe. Good quizzes but arrogant, egotistical owners.

Sporcle is not a REAL trivia site, in that it has VERY few quizzes of the traditional trivia type. Hardly any featuring a question with several answers to choose from. The site features message boards where you can comment on various things. It doesn't tolerate ANY criticism of the site, you receive immediate backlash even for constructive advice. If you post ANYTHING pro-conservative or anti-liberal you are viciously attacked. If you post something like this several times, you are banned from the boards. Pro-conservative thoughts are NOT tolerated. This site is infected with loony loser liberals, from the owner and originator of the site down to the majority of the people that play on it. If you're conservative in your political views, stay away from this site.

LOTS of variety on quizzes, trivia, and game topics. I love this website! Also like that you can submit games of your own.

Not only fun for adults -- but kids too! There are lots of topics that can get them interested to play (I hooked a kid with a Pokémon game then challenged him to a geography game --- sneaky!)

Games come in different varieties: matching, spelling, selecting from a list, ordering, naming & identifying, fill in the blank, listing, etc. Excellent to keep brain sharp and just have fun!

Sporcle is perhaps best known for their geography quizzes such as the excellent "How many countries of the world can you type in 15 minutes?" (with a map). That can get a bit cluttered, so doing them continent by continent in separate quizzes is also possible. I've learned a lot of geography from this site, including how to correctly spell Kyrgyzstan on the first try. There is a lot of variety; use the search feature, and this site can keep you busy for a while.

Logged in users can submit quizzes of their own as well. If well received by other Sporcle users, these can sometimes become "official" and get promoted to the front page. Note that this is a community of trivia buffs so be sure to carefully check your work if you plan to design quizzes. You will hear about it in the comments if you forget that France borders Brazil, that Denmark is the 13th largest country by area, or that the West African country between Liberia and Ghana prefers to be alphabetized under "C", not "I".

User experiments with the flexibility of the quiz design feature have yielded many different types of quiz formats beyond the simple "List all the___'s". Quizzes have been designed to simulate various game show formats, crossword puzzles, music lyrics, and matching.

The site is quite functional for logged out users, but registering with an email address allow commenting, rating, user statistics, and quiz creation.