Points are editorial, not player statistics
Every accepted answer carries an editor-assigned rarity value of exactly 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100. These weights express how unlikely an answer is to be named first in casual play, as judged by our content reviewers at review time. They are not a measurement of what percentage of real players chose each answer — we do not pretend to have that data. If crowd-based rarity ever replaces editorial weights, it will be a new, separately versioned scoring release.
A reviewed, finite answer bank
Each question in the live bank ships with a fully enumerated answer set (for example: the eight IAU planets, the five Platonic solids, the six chess piece types), a precise boundary statement shown with the question, a per-answer rationale, and a verifiable source list with snapshot dates. Our content provenance and review decisions are published in our internal documentation and audited before any question enters the draw pool.
Recognition and aliases
Your input is normalized (Unicode NFC, case folding, whitespace collapse) and compared against canonical labels plus a short list of individually reviewed aliases — for example “Lake Huron” for Huron, or “fall” for Autumn. We deliberately do no fuzzy, typo-tolerant or prefix matching: an unapproved spelling scores zero rather than being guessed into points. Unrecognized means “not in our reviewed set,” not “wrong.”
Score values
| Editorial value | Label | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | Classic pick | The answer most people say first |
| 40 | Familiar | Well known, rarely the first pick |
| 60 | Uncommon | Seldom named under time pressure |
| 80 | Rare find | Almost never the first answer |
| 100 | Ultra rare | The deepest cut in the set |
Frozen versions, fair duels
Scoring runs on our server against a frozen question-set and score version. Your five rounds and any duel you challenge a friend to are settled on the exact versions they started with — later bank updates never rewrite a finished game. Every submission is idempotent and order-checked, so refreshes and double-clicks can't change a score.
Think we missed a valid answer?
After any unrecognized round, tap “Report it.” Reports go to a review queue with the round reference (never your analytics). If an answer or alias is added, it applies to future games under a new content version — historical results stay untouched.