Trivia

How a question goes

Whoever raises the game picks a topic, anything from “Premier League history” to “90s music”, and Kontest writes the questions for it. Each question is multiple choice (four answers) or true or false. Everybody sees it at the same moment and has 15 seconds to tap an answer. Your answers are in a different order from everybody else’s, so a glance at a friend’s screen tells you nothing.

A question closes as soon as everybody has answered, or when its time runs out. A question you didn’t answer scores nothing.

Classic, Buzzer and Survival

• Classic: everybody answers every question. Right is worth 50 points, and up to 50 more for speed. Most points wins.
• Buzzer: the first right answer takes the question, for 100 points. A wrong answer locks you out of that question, and the others can still take it.
• Survival: miss a question, wrong or too slow, and you’re out. If everybody still in misses the same one, nobody goes. The last one in wins; the rest are placed by when they went out, then by right answers.

Two players is a duel in any mode. Level points at the end is a draw.

A wrong question

Questions are written by AI and checked by a second one, but a mistake can slip through. While a question’s answer and the standings are showing, you can flag it. If more than half the players flag it, it is voided: it counts for nobody, and scores and Survival are worked out as if it was never asked.

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