Help on How To Play Can You Name

Can You Name? is a very simple but fun memory trivia game. Just name as many answers to the question by typing them in. If you get one right our game will give you a point. Not only is Can You Name? fun to play but we also believe that it helps get your brain working as well as help to improve your general knowledge, spelling and speed-typing abilities too.

Controlling the Clock
Each Can You Name? game has a clock which will give you a specific amount of time to input your answers. This will be a time ranging from 1 minute to a huge 10 minutes depending on the number of answers in the game and how difficult we want to make it for you...



Just above the clock you will see these controls. Click the Start Playing button and the clock begins to count down click the Give Up button to end the game if you can't remember any more answers.



Entering Your Answers
As soon as the clock starts to countdown, the large text box becomes active allowing you to type in the answers. You need to make sure that your spelling is up to scratch as misspellings are not accepted. Can You Name accepts your answers in two ways - most games as soon as you have typed in a correct answer, the game will accept it but on some games you will have to press enter to get the game to accept each answer. This is due to answer being very similar such as in our "Can You Name Countries?" there is both Niger and Nigeria. A message is shown below the clock on games where you must press enter as a friendly reminder which looks like this...



Keeping Score
As shown below, right next to the game controls you will see there are some progress bars. You will only see the previous saved score bar if you are logged in. The average score bar shows the average score which are users have achieved on the game, the other two bars show your current average score and the time.



The Answers
There are two ways we display your answers depending on the game. One way is a simple alphabetical list of all named answers and the other way puts your answers into a grid. As each answer is named the grid square that the answer goes in will change from red to green.

After The Game Has Finished
Once the clock has reached zero or you have clicked on the Give Up button the control buttons change to look like this.



The "Display What You Missed button" will display all answers which you have missed either in a red box below or if the answers are in a grid then the grid will be updated. The retry button can be clicked which will refresh the page so you can start all over again with the current game.

Commenting and Voting On Each Game
Once you have created an account and logged in, you can easily vote and comment on each game. At the bottom of each game page you can see a button like this...



Clicking this button will display all comments currently left on that game and also the comment box for you to leave your own comment. We hide the comments because some people may write answers which could ruin your game if you accidentally see them.

I Still Need Help!
If you still need help playing, tick the Help Mode checkbox as shown below and move your mouse over objects round the screen to see a popup box explaining what each item is.



We hope this helps you to get playing and we hope you enjoy playing as much as we enjoy creating new games for you. Oh and if you can think of a great game you would like to see, head over to our Suggestion Box and tell us about it and you never know we might make it.

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