Rules

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.

Easy and hard questions count as in typed rooms.

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

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.

How multiple choice is played

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.

A guesstimate counts the same whatever its difficulty.

How a guesstimate is played

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.

A list counts the same whatever its difficulty.

How chaos is played

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 counts the same whatever its difficulty. If nobody gets it, the best try one swap from right earns 50 points where near misses do.

How fix the order is played

A blurry picture scores as a typed answer: 1000 less 10 a second, at least 100, and each of its 4 clearer steps you saw counts as a hint: 50 less. Its difficulty, the streak and the other bonuses count as for any typed answer.

In Blurry Pictures, a step every 6 seconds, before difficulty and bonuses.

How a blurry picture is played

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.

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.