There appears to be an issue affecting quiz polls sent through the Telegram Bot API using the "sendPoll" method with "type="quiz"".
When a bot sends a quiz poll through "sendPoll", the poll frequently fails to send and displays a red exclamation mark. The poll remains unsent.
This issue is not limited to a single bot implementation. The same behavior can also be reproduced using the official @QuizBot, indicating that the problem is not specific to one bot, library, or hosting environment.
Important observation:
Quiz polls created directly inside the Telegram application work normally. Users can manually create and send anonymous quiz polls through Telegram's built-in poll interface without any problem.
The issue appears to affect quiz polls sent through the Bot API ("sendPoll" with "type="quiz""), while manually created quiz polls continue to work.
Steps to reproduce
Open @QuizBot or any bot that sends quiz polls through the Bot API.
Trigger a quiz poll while creating new quiz through the keyboard button called "Create a question"
Create quiz poll and enable anonymous voting and select correct answer option then press CREATE button above
The bot calls "sendPoll" with "type="quiz"".
The quiz poll fails to send and displays a red exclamation mark❗️ below it and when pressing retry to retry sending it it keeps failing.
Manually created anonymous quiz polls work correctly while quiz polls sent through the Bot API and @QuizBot fail, the issue appears to be related to Bot API quiz poll delivery or handling of sendPoll when type="quiz" is used. Please fix this as a lot of users reported It
Admin Dog
Can you please clarify? Message sent showing an exclamation mark are sent from the app, not via API, so that’s an app issue.
The reason I suspected a Bot API / QuizBot issue is that manually created anonymous quiz polls from the Telegram app work normally, while the problem consistently occurs when using @QuizBot or other bots that send quiz polls. I understand that the red exclamation mark itself is an app-side indicator. However, the issue appears to be triggered specifically during quiz poll workflows involving bots.
Yeah i have my bot already @QuizAsLM_BOT try start it and choose manual mode and press the create quiz keyboard button and same thing happens and even multiple users reported me about that thinking it is from my bot-side. i found many other users here complaining same thing, i even tried play store app version and telegram apk version and other devices all of them are the same
I understand that the red exclamation mark itself is an app-side indicator. However, the issue appears to be triggered specifically during quiz poll workflows involving bots.