So I am writing a new story and it is completely unlike anything I have ever written. I am trying to do a time choice mini-game but instead of it defaulting I would like to make it if the MC doesn’t answer in time, someone else answers the question. I have never used timed choices before or mini-games, are they a similar format to regular choices, like can I do it if the timer runs out I can put another person answering under the bracket of whatever I default to?
TYIA
Okay from my experiment the timed choice automatically chooses the last option, so this is what I did.
NARRATOR
Please answer this question
choice (question) [timed:4]
“Answer 1” {
GIRL (talk_apathetic)
Answer.
} "Answer 2 " {
GIRL (talk_airquotes)
Answered
}“Don’t Answer”{
}
if (question is “Answer 1”) {
@GIRL is idle_happy
@BOY is eyeroll
} elif(question is “Answer 2”) {
@GIRL is idle_happy
@BOY is eyeroll
}
else {
BOY (talk_apathetic)
Answer.
@GIRL is idle_awkward
}
Is there a wrong answer included?
Thank you for testing this, sorry I had to pick my husband from work. I am writing a contestant type story, so its more about if the reader (MC) doesn’t know the answer she loses points and one of the other contestants answers the question.
Its okay and I hope your married life is doing you good girl 
Is It like optional? like the Mc has to find or learn the answer somehow?
yeah the first 2 chapters give you clues (answers) and you need to pass chapter 3 to continue the story, its all point based so even if you don’t pass chapter 3 if you try to go to 4 you will just get an message with the script from 3 with the option to end the game or continue and try and gain the points. I hope that makes sense.
Married life is awesome now. 
I’m super excited about this story, but I have been working on it for months LOL I am almost done with 3 and just pumped to get it published, but I want it to be perfect as well.
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well I can’t say that I tried im at lost cause right now. The problem with this is that when using timed choices, after the timer hits 0 it goes straight to last choice instead of skipping the choices. Sorry I couldn’t help much
actually this helps immensely, because the last choice I will just alter the script to someone else answering it. so thank you, I am going to credit you in the story with coding help.
aww that’s sweet but don’t credit me I did the bare minimum 
I really don’t mind, I appreciate any help I get.
oh yeah here’s another version just in case where npc can get the question wrong if she didnt get the clues or she was slow.
#Pretend this is chapter 2 {
GIRL (think)
(Do I want to read the book FILLED WITH ANSWERS?)
choice “No” {
gain nobook
} “YES ANSWERS” {
&GIRL is idle_read_book
@pause for 2
gain readbook
&GIRL is dustoff_loop then GIRL is shiftweight
}
#}
NARRATOR
It’s time for TRIVIA!
NARRATOR
Please answer this question
choice (question) [timed:4]
“Answer 1” {
GIRL (talk_apathetic)
The answer is c
} "Answer 2 " {
GIRL (talk_airquotes)
The answer is C
}“Answer 3”{
GIRL (talk_airquotes)
The answer is C
}“Answered to Slow”{
BOY (talk_apathetic)
Answer.
@GIRL is idle_awkward
goto skip
}
if (readbook) {
@GIRL is idle_happy
@BOY is eyeroll
}elif (nobook) {
NARR
WRONG!
@GIRL is idle_awkward
@BOY is primp_condescend
}
else {
BOY (talk_apathetic)
Answer.
@GIRL is idle_awkward
}
label skip
@pause for 2
Yeah I got a lot of work to do with figuring out how to make it that someone answers if they let the timer run out or get the answer wrong.
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