# Not Answering After Wagering Points Results In No Points Lost **URL:** \ **Category:** Features\ **Tags:** features\ **Created:** [March 16, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372 "2022-03-16T00:05:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hirebruce2day](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/hirebruce2day/32/251_2.png) [@Hirebruce2day](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/Hirebruce2day)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/1 "2022-03-16T00:05:55Z")
I had a player today place a bet, then not answer and not lose points. Is this a choice, or a mistake. If it’s a choice, I want to know so I can inform players if it’s with intent. Thanks, and wagering has been VERY well received. ---
**Author:** ![jemma](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/jemma/32/380_2.png) [@jemma](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/jemma)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/2 "2022-03-16T15:59:16Z")
Hi @Hirebruce2day, While this is not the intent, this does occur due to the current design of all non-answers not affecting the score/rankings as Ross previously mentioned in this thread: > [@Wager question doesn’t remove points](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/wager-question-doesn-t-remove-points/357/2): > > The player sees their answer as incorrect due to “running out of time” on their phone but there is no scoring penalty, regardless if you have **Points Wagering** or a **Lose Points When Incorrect** setting that _should_ cause the player to lose points for an incorrect answer. > > We’re working on correcting this so that a non-vote would trigger the appropriate **Lose Points When Incorrect** or **Points Wager** loss. Thanks for your feedback! Please stay tuned as our team works on correcting this function. ---
**Author:** ![garry](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/garry/32/427_2.png) [@garry](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/garry)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/3 "2025-08-06T11:01:27Z")
Hi Jemma, Any timeline on fixing it so a non-answer on a wager question, would result in lost points? Lots of our “big” teams use this as a strategy…would be great to remove this option. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![jemma](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/jemma/32/380_2.png) [@jemma](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/jemma)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/4 "2025-08-07T00:17:44Z")
Hi @garry, thanks for checking in! While I don’t currently have a specific timeframe on this feature, we’ll be sure to report back on this forum thread with any new updates. ---
**Author:** ![arniedavis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/arniedavis/32/349_2.png) [@arniedavis](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/arniedavis)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/5 "2025-08-24T06:41:38Z")
Hi, I would just like to add my voice to this topic. I would very much like for this to be fixed so that if people don’t submit an answer on wager questions and “lose points” questions, they still lose points as if they had submitted an incorrect answer. I hope it’s something you will fix soon. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![RossN](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/rossn/32/74_2.png) [@RossN](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/RossN)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/6 "2025-09-17T20:33:08Z")
@gnip @playvirtualgamenight @markmagoo @j.sneddon @tom1 @trivia @huntstreet @AquariumDaily Hey everyone. I wanted to get some feedback as we’re about to implement this fix/feature. This thread has the most views so I’m going to discuss it here and have tagged the other users from the other threads about this topic. Implementing a points-loss for a non-answered question seems pretty straight-forward on the surface. Especially if **Use Question Timer** is enabled. When the question timer reaches zero, if the the player hasn’t answered, then trigger any lost points per the **Points Wager** or **Lose Points When Incorrect** settings. However, it gets murkier if **Use Question Timer** is disabled. Some hosts prefer not to have a question timer and give their players an open-ended amount of time to answer a question, and then stop the answering when they see fit - which happens once you enable **Show Answer Results (A), Show Correct Answer (C)**, or any of the various **Rankings Leaderboards**. However, we’re discussing when, in this use-case, you would want to see the lost points applied. If there’s no question timer, does the points-loss occur once any of the above views are enabled? Does it occur once you activate another question? If so, then showing the rankings on the current question wouldn’t have the lost points reflected until you trigger the next question. What about revisiting questions by the host? When **Use Question Timer** is enabled, if the timer runs out while a player is on the question, they they are locked out and cannot ever answer the question again, even if the question is revisited. If they were not signed in on that question, or the active question is updated to a new question _before_ the timer runs out, upon the host revisiting the old question the player _can_ still answer the question (and a new timer is triggered). With **Use Question Timer** disabled, is a player allowed to answer a question if they didn’t answer it before? As that is how it works now. If there’s no question timer, then the player can always answer a question if it’s revisited by the host. But if they are to lose points for not answering, how does that work upon revisiting the question with no question timer enabled? It seems they should not be allowed to answer the question again if there’s any loss of points applied for not answering the first time. Curious about your thoughts on this use-case. As I said above, the more standard setting of having **Use Question Timer** enabled is pretty straight-forward thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![tom1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/tom1/32/487_2.png) [@tom1](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/tom1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/7 "2025-09-18T15:50:14Z")
Heya Ross, thanks for putting the question out there. I’ll detail my particular use cases here for you to see how I would integrate it. We exclusively use the question timer for all of our corporate events. We’re often on a time crunch, so we need to instill some pressure on players, as well as use the decreasing points feature to eliminate possibilities of a tie score as much as possible. If I need to hurry it along faster than the displayed timer, I then use the show answer results to forcefully stop people from being able to submit and show the score right away. I’ll verbally tell them that we’re moving faster during the show so that they don’t get too mad when I end a question early. If I were to use the lose-points feature, I’d want it to only apply when showing the correct answer. On longer questions, I might show the answer results to give them insight to the crowd, and I wouldn’t want the loss to be enabled there. I wouldn’t want it on “next question” either, because sometimes we get a bad question (a number with a decimal point in the Numerical Answer question, and they don’t have a button for decimals on the screen) and I don’t want to award or take away any points, so I would move to the next question without showing the correct answer. Usually I revisit a question if I accidentally move the active question too quickly. So the timer rarely finishes. This is why I would only want point actions to take place on showing the question, just in case of minor user errors by the host. I would think losing points on a missed answer should mean that you can’t ever answer a question that has been displayed at any point. I would hate to see a person join a show late and then start off with negative points bc the system sees them as having “missed” questions they weren’t even present for. Hope the above helps in some way, happy to directly email to limit any clutter on the thread! ---
**Author:** ![RossN](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.crowdpurr.com/rossn/32/74_2.png) [@RossN](https://community.crowdpurr.com/u/RossN)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/not-answering-after-wagering-points-results-in-no-points-lost/372/8 "2026-10-01T22:46:18Z")
We are working on this and discussing it in another thread, FYI: > [@Wager question doesn’t remove points](https://community.crowdpurr.com/t/wager-question-doesn-t-remove-points/357/10): > > So there’s a gotcha that we have found while working on this, and I’m curious about your opinion as trivia hosts and users. To review: the idea is that any non-answer cast will cause a player to lose points if either “Lose Points When Incorrect” is enabled or the question has a points wager. Where right now, not answering has no consequence. In the above use-case of an individual trivia game it’s pretty straight-forward for how it will function. When a player doesn’t answer, they actually cast…