News - 2020-01-11

• Quandary version 3 for Windows and Wine/Linux is available. You can download version 3.0.0.5 now. You can see examples of the exercise output here. You should be able to install and use it alongside version 2.x if you would like to keep using both versions. The source files are not compatible, though, so if you have custom source files for version 2, you will need to rewrite them for version 3.

What is Quandary?

Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the name Action Maze.

Action mazes can be used for many purposes, including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires. All of these types of use are easier to understand by example than they are to explain, so here are some example exercises.

Downloads

Download Quandary for Windows/Wine from here:

• Quandary 3.0 installer (Quandary for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, version 3.0.0.5).

You may also download the last (now unsupported) version 2 of Quandary (Quandary for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, version 2.4.2.1).

• Quandary 2.4 installer (Quandary for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, version 2.4.2.1).

Support

We no longer provide direct support for Quandary, but there is a Hot Potatoes users's group which has an active community many of whom also use Quandary.

Other software from the same authors

• Try our Language Teaching Clipart Library in your HotPot exercises.
• Hot Potatoes is a suite of authoring tools for creating Web-based exercises. Hot Potatoes is also freeware.
• Markin, TexToys and Transformer are other Windows programs written by Martin Holmes.