Glossary
The words you will meet in Quorix, in plain language.
- Elo rating
- A number that goes up when you beat someone and down when you lose. Beating a higher-rated player moves you up more. Nineteen games keep one.
- Best-score board
- A leaderboard that ranks your best result instead of win and loss. Four games use it.
- Leaderboard
- The ranking of players for one game. Rated games rank by Elo, score games by best score.
- Coins
- What you earn by playing and winning. You spend them on cosmetic things only; they have no link to real money.
- Quests
- Daily and weekly small goals that pay coins.
- Achievements
- Badges you unlock for things you do in the games.
- Party
- A group of friends who queue up for a game together.
- Queue
- Waiting to be matched with other players for an online game.
- Practice mode
- Playing against the computer, offline. A few games have it so far: Tic-Tac-Toe, Battleship and Rock Paper Scissors.
- Rematch
- Challenging the same opponent again with one click after a match (Chess, Battleship, Rock Paper Scissors).
- Tournament
- A four-player single-elimination bracket: lose once and you are out. Available for Battleship and Rock Paper Scissors.
- Reconnection
- If your connection drops mid-match, the match pauses for up to 30 seconds while the app logs you back in and returns you to it.
- Dominion
- A persistent world where players found nations on a map of provinces, raise armies and make alliances.
- Province
- One region of the Dominion map. Armies march between neighbouring provinces.
- Nation
- Your country in Dominion. Each account can found one.
- Tick
- One in-game day in Dominion. The world moves on one day every 20 real minutes.
- Alliance and non-aggression pact
- Deals between nations that both sides must accept.
- War declaration
- A formal step before nations can fight. It does not start immediately, and a nation whose player is offline cannot be attacked.