Earlier this week a reader of my newsletter sent me a question looking for a way to limit the number of times that an answer choice could be used on a Google Form. My first suggestion was to try the Google Forms add-on called Choice Eliminator 2. 

Choice Eliminator 2 is a Google Forms add-on that I’ve used for years to limit the number of times that an answer choice can be used on a Google Form. When the limit is reached, the answer choice stops appearing on the form. For example, if I create a multiple choice question like “what’s your first choice of winter carnival activity?” and then give four answer choices, I can then use Choice Eliminator 2 to only allow answer choice “A” to be chosen three times before it disappears from the form. In fact, that’s exactly what I demonstrate in the second half of this video. 

Choice Removal is another Google Forms add-on that will remove answer choices from a Google Form as they get used up. The difference between Choice Removal and Choice Eliminator 2 is that Choice Removal doesn’t allow you to specify how many times an answer choice can be used. Instead, Choice Removal simply removes an answer choice as soon as it has been used one time. 

In this video I demonstrate how both Choice Eliminator 2 and Choice Removal work.