Meaningful? Probably not but besides the new character medallions on my last cruise I won a goody bag of DCL stuff- A small DCL backpack, DCL baseball hat, DCL journal, DCL cooling towel, cheap DCL sunglasses, and my favorite a DCL fidget spinner.
Fair, but maybe that's part of the reason why the outcome would be different if you are scoring your own versus scoring for someone else. If grading your own, you would know if the situation was "I can't remember, but it was something with an M and and ended in O, oh well, let's guess and see if we get lucky"--in which case it's just a wrong answer and not a mere spelling error. But if grading for another team, you may give the benefit of the doubt and assume that someone gave the correct answer but the team's scribe wrote it down wrong.
Does any cruise line offer anything like that? I mean people will cheat to win Mickey medallions so I can't imagine what would happen if something of such value was on the table.
I totally get that but if someone scores you too high you can easily adjust the score down since you are self reporting. If the team grading is confused to why you didn't win, you can explain it to them.
On the Celebrity cruise I was on during Christmas, one of the game shows had a free cruise as the top prize. The trivia throughout the cruise didn't have a prize, just bragging rights I guess.
That’s a nice price. On which cruise was that?
Wish Cruise May 10-13 at the 18+ trivia's; they gave out one gift set with those prizes at most of the 18+ trivia's. We won 3 in total, one I took home, one my DD22 took home, and then we had a random team mate for the first one and split gifts up from that one.
When I sailed to Alaska on the Wonder in summer 2023, they were giving away similar prize bags for trivia contests. I almost got one. Missed it by one!
One of cruises we won some pretty nice DCL windbreakers.
…didn’t I mention the medals? Win enough and you can pose like Mark Spitz (without all the hair).
Love the flex. I can't wait to pose with my medals on the next cruise. It literally took 2 cruises and a friend pixie dusting the last medal I needed to get the whole set. If you can team up with other people and share medals it's a lot easier to win. My cruises last year were honor system and did the pledge. Maybe with the switching it might take time depending on where the trivia is being held.
This is what I do for trivia scribble or write funny stuff. I'm never close to winningFrom my experience we always switched before Covid. After Covid they stopped and did the honor system, but now on our most recent cruises they have started switching again. That could just be coincidence though.
Personally I prefer the honor system as I'm usually scribbling fast and my writing is not very legible.
On a funny note, we recently switched with a couple who knew they were not doing well. They started filling in nonsense answers that just had us cracking up. Some were so good I gave them bonus points (I knew they weren't going to win so it was more for fun I did that...it didn't affect anyone else). It gave us a good laugh.
