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====== Section for Players ======

Playing takes four steps: sign up, gather a team if the game needs one, enroll in the game and enter it. After that everything happens on a single page: the task, the answer box and the hints.

===== Signing up =====

The registration works for all the game sub-domains: sign up on one of them and you log in to any of them with the same account.

{{ :players_main:player_register_en.png |Signing up: a login, an e-mail and a password — that is enough to play}}

Not much of it is required: a login, a password and the e-mail your password is recovered through. The phone number is not always needed — the organizers of city games ask for it so that they can reach the team out on the route.

Once you have signed up, you can already play single-player games.

===== Team =====

Team games need a team. Your own is created by giving it a name; you join somebody else's through an invitation link — the captain hands it out, and it also sits in the team information page.

{{ :players_main:player_team_en.png?800 |A team: your own is created by name, somebody else's is joined through the captain's invitation link}}

===== Enrolling and entering the game =====

The game card first carries the **"Enroll"** button. The organizer accepts the application — by hand in some games, automatically in others — and **"Enter the game"** appears in its place. The button starts working once the game has begun.

{{ :players_main:player_game_card_en.png?800 |The game card: the application, and after it is accepted — "Enter the game" and a link to the statistics}}

===== The game window =====

Everything you need while playing is on one page: the level name and the answer box at the top, the task text below it, and under that the hints, which open on a timer or are taken by a button for a penalty.

{{ :players_main:player_task_en.png?800 |The game window: the task, the answer box, the hints}}

The page never reloads: an answer leaves and comes back in place, and the **"Previous answers"** list remembers what has already been tried.

{{ :players_main:player_answer_frame_en.png?800 |The answer box}}

{{ :players_main:player_code_en.gif |A wrong code and then a right one: the answer arrives on the same page}}

The looks are set by the author of the game: colours, fonts and images differ from game to game, but the answer box and the hints always stay where they are.

===== On a phone =====

City games are played from a phone, and the level page is built for a narrow screen: the same answer box on top, the same text underneath.

{{ :players_main:player_task_mobile.png |The same task on a phone}}

===== Where to practise =====

You can get acquainted with the game system [[https://qeng.org/index.php?gid=80|here]].

Also, [[https://qeng.org/game.php?gid=3970|this game]] can be useful for newbies to train on how to play.