I was considering asking if Crowdpurr could grey out quizzes/questions we’ve already used but, contemplating how difficult that might be (at least retroactively), I’ve decided to ask that you, more simply (?), implement a way for us to mark quizzes/questions as used previously (ideally with date but I’m a dreamer.) 
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Hi @huntstreet. We actually considered this feature many times over the years. It’s fairly easy to do but it involves saving and comparing a lot of data as you use the trivia library.
Additionally, it gets tricky to know when you actually use a trivia game/question. Is it when you clone it? When you run it the first time? What if you’re just testing?
I’ve put some thought into it and have always come to the conclusion that it wasn’t worth the effort.
We do have a feature coming later this year that would require this functionality. We want to release a more user-friendly, turn-key type feature where a user simply puts Crowdpurr on a screen, presses a button to start, and the screen automatically loops trivia games forever. Never repeating an old game and always updating with any new games that we publish. The working title is Super Bar Mode as it would be ideal for a bar or restaurant to just put up on their screens. And it would involve no management whatsoever. So this type of feature would need some kind of functionality to know which games have been played. But… it could be as simple as just having a massive list and moving down one game at a time in order. Versus how a user like you would choose different games out of order and they would need to be tracked/stored. For Super Bar Mode we could simply save a count/number that represents where they are on the master list of games. Much simpler.
I’ll update here when we have news about this.
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I completely understand! Thank you for sharing this! Loving everything the software has to offer 
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@neoinoakleys @vwarfield @qwizard
We’re wanting to implement this feature and I wanted to get some feedback from the users who have requested it. There’s several threads about this topic but I think it’s best to just discuss it in one thread here, as it has the most views and I have tagged the other users from other threads.
In implementing this, we think we’ve come up with the following features for tracking used trivia games/questions in the Trivia Library:
Marking Questions As Used
When a trivia game or set of questions from multiple games is cloned out of the Trivia Library, either for a new game or adding questions to an existing game, its questions will be marked as “used” and then be colored appropriately so you can tell they have been used when revisiting the Trivia Library.
Marking them as “used” upon cloning is the easiest way to do it. As it gets more nebulous if we mark them as “used” once you start a trivia game, or once a player votes on the question. When the game is cloned, even if you haven’t run the game yet, you’ll know the question has been used and is somewhere in a trivia game in your Experiences List.
Additional Functions
- If all fifteen questions of a Trivia Library’s game are used, then the game as a whole will also indicate that it has been used (via color, etc.)
- The ability to manually mark a question or entire game as used or unused in the Trivia Library (in case you made a mistake and/or just want to re-use some questions). Or, for example, you want to go in and mark a bunch of games/questions you know you’ve already cloned as used.
- The ability to go into an existing cloned trivia game from your My Experiences List and mark all of its questions as used or unused from within the Experience Dashboard. This will make it easy and quick to mark cloned sets of questions as unused (or reverting to used) versus having to pick through them in the Trivia Library.
- The ability to drill down on used questions in the Trivia Library and see the date they were used.
- The ability to fully reset your “used questions” database and start over.
What other functionality would be useful for this feature?
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For us, we sometimes get repeat clients with the majority of their attendees the same, and sometimes it’s the same client but a different business group. What could potentially be useful is the ability to tag questions? This way we could mark questions that are good either for certain themes or particular clients, so we don’t reuse old ones for groups that have already seen them. And since we work in charity events, being able to group questions by sector, for example “this question is great for events giving back to pediatric cancer patients” so that when we build out experiences of a similar theme we can pull from a list of that tag.
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Copy that. Tags are always a good way of doing something. Perhaps the first version of this could be a “Used” tag. Then we could roll out multiple tags and organization of questions into tag groups later. Thanks for the feedback.
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I’m soooooooooooo happy!!! 
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I’m super excited for this as well. I host weekly trivia at a local bar and go through 9 quizzes a week, so having the feature to know what quizzes and questions have been used at a glance, and being able to add notes/ tags to quizzes will also be extremely helpful.
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