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Trivia & Quizzes
General knowledge, guess-the-thing, higher-or-lower and the specific joy of getting an obscure question right. Good alone, better with someone watching.
17 sites
AltF Pulse
AltFA paused editorial preview that explains the sourcing and publishing controls required before stories return.
- 10 min
One song revealed a single instrument at a time, six guesses, one puzzle a day. Needs headphones and a decent musical memory.
- 2 min
- Sound on
Five photographs, one question each: what year was this taken? Points scale with how close you land, and the cars always give it away.
Six stills from one film, revealed one at a time. Getting it from the first frame is the only score really worth having.
A million questions written and edited by volunteers since 1999, filed under categories nobody would ever think to commission.
- 10 min
Name the video game from a blurred cover, then a screenshot, then artwork. New puzzle daily and several modes to lose at.
Family Fortunes played against Google autocomplete, which turns out to be a bleaker and much funnier opponent than a studio audience.
Look at a scatter plot and guess its correlation coefficient. A statistics lecture disguised as a slot machine, and it works.
- 2 min
- Desktop
A daily video game identified from progressively less obscure screenshots, with six guesses and a genuinely cruel first frame.
Every clue from every episode of the American quiz institution, transcribed by fans back to 1984 and playable board by board.
- 1 hr+
- Desktop
Cleaner and more factual than its rivals, strongest on geography and history, and mercifully free of which-character quizzes.
- 10 min
A noughts-and-crosses grid where every square needs a Pokemon matching two criteria at once, scored on how obscure your picks were.
The Only Connect connecting wall in thousands of user-made versions: sixteen clues, four groups, two and a half minutes.
Hundreds of thousands of user-made timed quizzes: name every element, every country, every Friends character. The genre's warehouse.
Two Google search terms, one question: which one gets searched more? Your instincts are far worse than you think they are.
- <1 min
Two portraits side by side, one photographed and one generated. A University of Washington project, and your score keeps falling.
Drag Wikipedia cards onto a timeline in the right order. Three lives, and you will lose one to the invention of the fork.
- 10 min
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Trivia & Quizzes: questions
How many sites are in Trivia & Quizzes?
17 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off. 1 of them is an AltF original that run right here.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
17 of the 17 are free and need no account. None of them are paid.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
15 of 17 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 17 are safe for work and 16 work with the sound off.