How to play

Answering

• Capitals, accents and punctuation don't matter, and umlauts can be written either way: “Müller”, “Muller” and “Mueller” all count.
• A leading “the” is optional: “Beatles” answers “The Beatles”.
• Sentences count too: “I think it's Paris” answers “Paris”.
• Some questions ask for several things, such as both names of a duo. Then one message needs all of them, in any order.
• One answer per message: a message that lists other answers besides the right one, like “oxygen helium carbon”, doesn't count.

Hints

Every 10 seconds without a correct answer, a hint reveals some of the answer's letters, up to 3 hints.

Each hint that was shown costs the winner 50 points.

Points

The winner of a round scores:

A question counts as easy or hard once it was played more than 3 times. Points are rounded to 10.

Once a question was solved 3 times, how long that took counts too: solved in under 15 seconds on average, it counts one step easier (× 0.75 instead of × 1, × 1.25 instead of × 1.5); taking more than 27 seconds on average, one step harder (× 1.25 instead of × 1, × 0.75 instead of × 0.5).

The more people play, the more the winner earns: each person beyond the second who answered, chatted or used a command in the last 2 minutes adds 100 bonus points, times the question's difficulty, up to 300 points from 5 people on.

“So close” counts a little: an answer one typo away (a wrong, missing, extra or swapped letter; two in answers of 8 letters or more; none in shorter than 5 letters or in numbers), or the right answer less than 0.5 seconds after the winner's, earns 50 points, times the question's difficulty. It doesn't win the round or count for a streak, and not when playing alone.

Multiple choice

In Casual nobody types: tap one of the answers shown. Everyone who's right scores, the faster the more. There are no hints.

Easy and hard questions count as in typed rooms. Your first pick is final, and the round ends once everyone playing has picked.

The fastest right answer wins the round, and with it the streak: anyone else being fastest ends it.

A question with several answers takes a pick for each. Some of them right earns 50 points for each right pick, times the question's difficulty; a wrong pick costs nothing.

A multiple-choice win counts half toward posting links in the chat.

Streaks

Every round you win in a row adds to your streak. From 5 wins in a row, each round you win earns 100 bonus points, and 100 more for every further 5 wins.

Win the round that ends someone else's streak and you get their streak bonus once.

A streak bonus stops growing at 500 points, times the question's difficulty, and is never more than 200 points above what the answer earned.

A streak ends after 1 hour without a win.

Leaderboards

The leaderboards rank everyone by points for each day, week, month and year, and for all time. Days start at midnight UTC.

Since Jan. 1, 2026, rounds are scored by v3 rules: a round played alone scores nothing and pauses streaks. Points from before and after aren't comparable, so the all-time leaderboard, the all-time numbers on player pages and the records count from then on. “Classic (2017⁠–⁠2025)” on the all-time leaderboard and the records shows the numbers from before. Months and years stay as they were.

Fair play

• No looking up answers: this isn't a contest of who searches fastest.
• One account per person. Other accounts of a banned player are banned with them, and for a while guests on their network can only watch. How we tell: what we keep and why.
• Be nice, and welcome new players. Rude players get banned.
• Found a wrong question? Vote it down or report it after the round, or use /report.
• Someone rude, cheating or spamming? Report them: tap their name and then Report, use the flag on their message, or type /report @name. Moderators see who reported, and what was said.