How PortuQuest works

Four separate measures, so that no one of them can buy another.

1. Language mastery

A lesson is passed the first time you score at least 80% on it. Untimed play is always available.
Only your first answer to each question counts. Typing accents and hyphens correctly matters: an answer that differs only by an accent counts with a warning, except where the accent changes the word (têm / tem, porquê / porque) or in verb conjugations.
Passed lessons come back for review after 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 days. A review done on time and passed pushes the next one further out; one that goes badly brings it back the next day. You never lose a passed lesson.

Each town has two lessons. Pass both and you're invited to its festa: 8 mixed questions from those lessons. Score 80% and the town feels like home.
% of Portugal = towns that feel like home ÷ towns on the trip (11), rounded down. It is not land area.
When a lesson is due for review, its town misses you (a red marker on the map). Catch up with a quick review. The town stays home either way.
Portugal is home when all 11 towns are, which means you've passed every A1 and A2 lesson.
Your trip is your own. Other players compete with you on points, but nobody can take your towns.

Lesson passed for the first time: 20. Review done when due and passed: 10. Festa won for the first time: 30.
Daily challenge: 10 per correct answer (10 questions), plus up to 20 if you choose the timed mode, scaled by how many you got right. One attempt a day; the same questions for everyone.
Challenges: win 15, draw 8, loss 3; the same two players score at most 3 challenges a week.
Replaying lessons you have already passed earns no league points.
Leagues run Monday to Sunday (Lisbon time) in divisions Bronze, Prata, Ouro, Azulejo. The top 20% with at least 50 points move up; in divisions of 5 or more, the bottom 20% move down.

When you use a member deal at a partner business through Algarve Offseason (scanning the QR code at the till), you can play a short Portuguese mission for a collectible tile.
One reward per business every 30 days, at most 3 a week, claimed within 7 days of the visit.
Visit rewards never count toward lessons, towns or league points.

Other players see your game name, never your email. You choose who sees it: only you, signed-in players, or anyone (share links).
Challenges are off until you turn them on, for friends or for anyone. You can block or mute any player.
The optional conversation partner runs on our own server. What you type to it is not stored, apart from a count used to limit how often it is used.