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.

Guesstimate

In Casual some questions ask for a number: “How high is Mount Kilimanjaro?” Type your guess in the box under the question, as often as you like until the time is up: your last guess counts, and nobody sees it before the result. A number in the chat is a guess too, kept from the others, and so is anything after /answer.

The first three places need a guess within 40% of the answer (a year: within 25 years); if nobody is that close, nobody wins the round. The closest guess wins the round and the streak; of two guesses just as close, the one sent first. The round always runs until its time is up. The points above are for a guess right away. Like a typed answer's, they fall with the time of your last guess: each place gets its share of 1000 less 10 a second, at least 100.

The hint says roughly how big the number is, the same for everyone, and costs nothing. A guesstimate counts the same whatever its difficulty.

Chaos

In Chaos every question asks for a list of 5 to 10 answers: “Name the planets of the Solar System.” Every answer shows as blanks. Type them in the chat, one per message, each name in full: the first to name an answer gets it, and it shows in its place with their picture. Capitals, accents, punctuation and a leading “the” don't matter; “i think mars” and typos don't count.

Your share of the list counts, so a list of 5 pays as much for 2 answers as a list of 10 for 4. The most answers win the round and the streak; of two with as many, whoever got there first. Second and third get 60% and 40% of their answers' points, everyone else who named one 20%. Naming every answer yourself, with someone else playing, adds 20 points an answer: a clean sweep.

Halfway through, a hint shows the first letters of each answer, and costs nothing. The round ends once every answer is named, and a list counts the same whatever its difficulty.

Fix the order

In Fix the Order every question asks you to put 4 to 6 items in order: “Put these mountains in order, highest first.” Casual asks some too. Drag the items into order, or tap one and then its place, and send it. Where the room has a chat, you can type their letters in your order instead, like B D A C, or after /answer: nobody else sees it.

One try every 3 seconds. After a wrong one you see how many items are in place, not which. The order as it was dealt and an order you tried before use no try.

The fewest tries win the round and the streak; of two with as many, the faster. A right order scores 850 less 10 a second, and 100 less for each wrong try before it, at least 100. In Fix the Order only the winner's right order scores. In Casual everyone who gets it right does, 50 less for each place behind the best, at most 500 less, and never more than a better place.

An order question lasts at least 30 seconds, with no hints, and counts the same whatever its difficulty. If nobody gets it, the best try one swap from right earns 50 points where near misses do.

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.