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General knowledge, guess-the-thing, higher-or-lower and the specific joy of getting an obscure question right. Good alone, better with someone watching.
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Lists, quizzes and the sort of low-stakes internet reading that fills a break without requiring anything of you.
One song revealed a single instrument at a time, six guesses, one puzzle a day. Needs headphones and a decent musical memory.
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.
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.
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.
Cleaner and more factual than its rivals, strongest on geography and history, and mercifully free of which-character quizzes.
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.
Take a quiz or build one and send it on. Results are shareable without anybody having to make an account first.
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.
Drag Wikipedia cards onto a timeline in the right order. Three lives, and you will lose one to the invention of the fork.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.