This section is a description of what you as the player are being asked to do in order to win. A dialog box will open as shown above. A random verse of the Bible is displayed. Your job is to try to guess where that verse is found in the Bible.
Starting with the Testament, you may choose Old or New. Once you make a choice, you may then move on to Book, then Chapter, then Verse. Copout answers are divisions more general than Books, but more specific than Testaments.
One very important thing to note is that you may hit the submit button at any time. Depending on the choices you have made, you will get a certain number of points:
correct Testament = 1 point
correct Book = 2 points
correct Chapter = 4 points
correct Verse = 8 points
correct Copout = 2 points
For each one correctly guessed, you will receive the specified number of points. However, if your most specific guess is wrong, then you will get 0 points. You must, therefore, be sure to only answer what you know for certain. The player with the most points wins. If there is a tie, then a new verse is chosen and you do it again.
If you correctly guess a copout answer, then you will only get 2 points, but if you guess the correct Testament, Book, Chapter, and Verse you will get 15 points ( 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 ).
The copout answers are as follows:
Old Testament:
Law (Genesis through Deuteronomy)
History (Joshua through Nehemiah)
Writings (Job through Song of Solomon)
Prophets (Isaiah through Malachi)
New Testament:
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)
Pauline Epistle (Romans through Philemon)
Jewish Epistle (Hebrews through Jude)
An example should suffice. In the window above, a verse is displayed: "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach". Now, if you know for certain that it is a New Testament passage, select the New Testament in the Testament Box. If you do not know for sure which book it is in, but you know not what book it is in, hit submit and you will receive 1 point. If you knew for sure that it was a Jewish Epistle, then would have gotten 2 points. Knowing it was in Hebrews gives you 3 points. If you even knew it was in Hebrews 13 somewhere, you would get 7 points. If you knew that it was Hebrews 13:14, then you would receive 0 points, because, in fact, it is verse 13.
If this is a normalization battle (i.e. not elimination), then the winner's flag will enlarge to the maximum size. In elimination, the flag sizes start off relative to one another based on the number of wins they need to advance. The smaller the flag, the more wins they need. For every win during elimination, the flag gets a little bigger. Once the flag has reached its maximum size, then elimination is over.
