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Idiom Quiz

Practice five carefully sourced English idioms through consistent four-choice completion and meaning cards.

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How to use

  1. 1.Read whether the card asks for a missing word or a figurative meaning, then choose one of four neutral answer options.
  2. 2.Use touch, pointer, number keys 1 through 4, or the arrow keys and Space to select; press Submit answer or Enter to grade.
  3. 3.Answer all five dictionary-checked cards correctly for 200 points each and an exact final score of 1,000.

About Idiom Quiz

Idiom Quiz is a compact five-round English practice game built from dictionary-checked fixed expressions. Three cards ask you to complete a missing word in an established idiom, while two cards ask you to choose the conventional figurative meaning. Every card uses the same four-choice interaction, the same selection state, and the same Submit answer control, so the question type changes without making the interface unpredictable. Each correct response awards 200 points and immediately advances. Completing all five rounds produces exactly 1,000 points.

The five expressions are break the ice, a piece of cake, spill the beans, under the weather, and hit the nail on the head. Their forms and meanings were checked item by item, not supplied from memory. Cambridge Dictionary serves as the primary source for each expression. A separate Wiktionary entry provides an independent cross-check for every item. All ten HTTPS pages returned HTTP 200 during implementation. Merriam-Webster and Collins pages were evaluated as possible cross-sources but returned HTTP 403 in the current environment, so they were not included as evidence.

The completion cards distinguish exact conventional wording from plausible but incorrect combinations. Break the ice does not become break the glass or break the snow. Spill the beans uses beans rather than seeds, peas, or rice. Hit the nail on the head ends with head rather than wall, board, or point. The meaning cards distinguish figurative use from literal-looking distractors. A piece of cake means something very easy to do. Under the weather means feeling slightly ill, not working outdoors, feeling uncertain, or arriving late.

Answers are not marked in accessible markup before grading. The current choices have neutral labels and selection state only; there is no answer data attribute, hidden explanation, correct class, or answer-bearing ARIA description. For a completion card, its meaning is not rendered before submission. For a meaning card, all four meanings must naturally appear as choices, but none is identified as correct. After a correct submission, a review note may reveal the previous idiom and its meaning. Wrong submissions never reveal the correct choice.

Error handling is deterministic and recoverable. A wrong signature combines the round number with the selected option. Submitting the identical wrong selection again is an atomic no-op, so a double click does not consume the run. A second different wrong signature ends the run until Restart. Invalid option indexes, fractional indexes, submitting with no selection, and all actions after completion or deadlock preserve state. Restart returns to the first card with zero score and no stored errors.

Touch and pointer users receive large answer rows and a full-width submit button, each at least 44 pixels high. Options use one column on narrow screens and two columns when space permits, with breakable text and no forced page overflow. Keyboard users can move the highlighted option with arrow keys, select with keys 1 through 4 or Space, and submit the highlighted choice with Enter. The shared GameShell supplies score, optional local best score, Restart, and the double-Escape boss screen.

The runtime keeps quiz logic separate from presentation. A pure reducer owns selection, cursor movement, scoring, error signatures, round progression, terminal freezing, and the post-answer reveal. Focused tests use literal external golden cases for all five fixed forms, three meanings, and two explicit false meanings. They also execute the complete five-answer route, exact scoring, repeated-error deduplication, second-error deadlock, invalid input guards, Restart, and terminal no-ops. No response leaves the browser, no account is required, no gameplay API is called, and no external asset or new package is loaded.

Methodology & sources

Five immutable four-option fixtures separate reference content from a pure state reducer. Forms and meanings are anchored to ten live dictionary pages. Runtime grading compares only the selected option index; UI markup never carries a correct-answer flag. Correct rounds award 200 and reveal only the previous explanation. Wrong signatures combine round and option, repeated signatures dedupe, and the second distinct signature deadlocks. Invalid, unselected, and terminal actions are atomic. Focused tests execute five literal answers plus meaning and counterexample goldens.

Frequently asked questions

Are the idioms and meanings sourced?
Yes. Every expression was checked on Cambridge Dictionary and independently cross-checked on its accessible Wiktionary entry.
Can the page reveal the answer before I submit?
No. Current choices remain neutral and no correct marker or explanation is placed in accessible markup before grading.
What happens if I submit the same wrong choice twice?
The repeated round-and-option signature is deduplicated. A second different wrong choice ends the run until Restart.

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