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Asked: 2026-06-13T03:30:36+00:00

I have a friend who’s working at a newspaper and has been given a

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I have a friend who’s working at a newspaper and has been given a big flow-chart for a sort of “Which of these are you?”-type online quiz. You know the type — “Which type of athlete are you?”, “Which Television Show X character are you?”, etc.

Essentially Question A forks to two options, each of those options forks to another question with N options, each of which forks to another question with another arbitrary number of options, and so on, with the user eventually reaching an end-point. You might reach a “You are $this” response after 1 fork, or it might take 5. No question is used more than once.

I’m really quite curious what’d be the best way to do this. It could probably be done in ~1000 lines with a bunch of nested functions, but I get the feeling my lack of Computer Science education is failing me at this point. Alternatively, is there a library somewhere that’d be good for this, or is this simply a question of writing a bunch of code?

Any thoughts? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    If there is only one Final Conclusion in the flowchart quiz, then the problem is comparable to a 20Q Game, Category Page Arrangement, or an Org Chart.

    It may involve 3 columns: Child Question(s), Parent Question(s), and the List Of Answers.

    • A Child Question acts like a Parent Question where there are other Nodes under it,
    • A Final Conclusion acts like a Child Question (without any other Nodes, but just the Conclusion)
    • The List Of Answers leads to the next Child Questions or Final Conclusion.

    If the Final Question is asked, either it goes to the Final Conclusion (and ends) or it goes back to a certain Parent Question (to loop).

    Hope it makes sense.

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