The basics

Fränk hosts, while Hilary adds her commentary from the sidelines. Choose how many players are joining in and pick a difficulty. Then it's time for ten questions.

Question types

Multiple choice — four answers, one is right.
True or false? — one statement, two buttons.
Take a guess — two values, one is right.

Scoring

You get 1,000 points for each correct answer, plus up to 500 extra for speed. The little flag on the timer shows how many points your answer is currently worth. Maximum: 1,500 per question.

Question ten is the final question, worth double points. That means you can score up to 3,000 points — enough for someone who's trailing to take the lead.

Passing the round

Easy — 60 seconds per question, 5 out of 10 correct to pass.
Medium — 45 seconds, 7 out of 10.
Hard — 30 seconds, 9 out of 10.

The timer only starts once the question and answers have been read aloud. You can tap an answer at any time. Answering early stops the narration and gives you credit for the full time remaining.

Playing together

Up to four players take turns on one device. The current player's name appears at the top. By the way, Fränk can't say your names out loud.

Where your scores live

The leaderboard, player names, and history of questions you've already seen are stored in this browser, rather than on a server. Nobody else can see them, and they never leave your device.

That also means clearing your browser data erases them. In a private browsing window or on another device, you'll be starting from scratch too.

That's what Back up on the start screen is for. It saves everything in a file: your leaderboard, names, settings, and history of questions you've already seen. Store it in your cloud storage or email it to yourself. On a new phone, use the same button to import it, and pick up where you left off. Your full-game purchase isn't included in the backup. It's linked to your Google account and is restored automatically when you sign in.

So nothing stutters

So that you can enjoy the show without interruptions or gaps in the sound, we recommend downloading the audio files once. It's about …, so Wi-Fi is the friendlier option, and it takes a few minutes.

After that, every voice is there the instant it's needed: no waiting between the question and Hilary reading it out, and no silence where a song should be. The button sits on the start screen, and you can pause and resume whenever you like.

If you've downloaded the audio

The audio isn't saved as loose files somewhere on your phone. It's kept in this browser's storage, right alongside your leaderboard. So there's no need to go hunting for it.

If you want to uninstall the game, delete the downloaded audio first. You'll find the button in Please download, just below the download button. One tap clears it all.

Uninstall first, and a few hundred megabytes will stay on your device. We're not keeping hold of them: once the game is uninstalled, it's gone from your phone, along with the button that deletes the audio. But that storage belongs to the browser, rather than the app, and the browser won't clear it automatically.

Already uninstalled? Just install the game again. Your downloaded audio will still be there. Delete it under Please download, then you can go ahead and uninstall us. That's the easiest option, and your leaderboard stays intact.

You can also clear the data through your browser: open Site settings for niche.sortylendo.com. On most phones, that's in Chrome; Samsung devices may use Samsung Internet. If you're playing in a browser, use the one you opened the game in. This option will also erase your leaderboard.

If questions keep coming back

The game remembers which questions you've seen and picks different ones next time. If it still feels like you're getting the same questions, tap Shuffle questions on the start screen. That puts the entire collection back in the mix. Restarting in the middle of a show also reshuffles the questions.

Four rewards. You play them free.

Every correct answer brings you closer to the next reward — and a mistake does not take that progress away. What counts is your correct answers in total, not in a row. How many you need depends on the difficulty:

	Easy	Medium	Hard
Two Out!	2	3	4
Double Chance	3	4	5
Time Bonus	4	5	6
Shield	5	6	7

Each reward comes once per player, per show. Earned stays earned until you use it. The line under your name always names the next one still open.

Two Out! removes two wrong answers. That only works on a question with four answers — otherwise the correct one would be left standing alone, and that would be no help any more. The timer keeps running. On Hard, Two Out! is blocked on the vocabulary question. The button is not there and comes back on the next question — the reward stays with you. On Medium it works on the vocabulary question too.

Double Chance lets you pick two different answers to the same question. Nothing is revealed after the first one — only after the second. If either one is correct, the question counts as correct. If time runs out after you picked only one, that one counts. It does not work on typed estimates or on two-answer questions.

Two Out! and Double Chance do not work on the same question. Two Out! leaves two answers standing, one of them correct — ticking both would be a certainty, not a chance. That would hand you the answer. Use one of the two and the other disappears for that question, and is back on the next one.

The Time Bonus has no button — it works by itself. With five seconds left, your timer fills up once to the full time for your difficulty: 60, 45 or 30 seconds. The possible speed bonus is restored with it, on typed estimates too. It does not fire during a pause.

The Shield has no button — it works by itself. If the Final Question is wrong or its timer runs out, the 2,000-point penalty is dropped. The answer still counts as wrong: your hit rate and your pass target do not change. A correct Final Question earns its normal points.

Streaks pay points

Correct answers in a row are a second route, and that one pays in points instead of rewards. At each of the four thresholds for your difficulty you get 500 extra points, once — on Medium that is at 3, 4, 5 and 6 in a row. Together that is up to 2,000 extra points per player, per show. A threshold already paid does not pay again. A mistake only resets the running streak, nothing else.

Rewards and the streak bonus belong to the main show. Score Rush has its own counters and unlocks nothing here.

Show badges: Triple means three correct in a row; Comeback means getting your next answer right after a mistake. These badges do not award points and do not hang on the rewards. In the same line you see the Time Bonus and the Shield — the two rewards with nothing to press. Your best streak appears in the results.

Your Score Rush streak

Score Rush has a separate streak for each player. Get 5 correct in a row for +500 points, 7 for +700, and 10 for +1,000. These bonuses add up: a ten-answer streak earns 2,200 bonus points on top of the normal answer points.

Each bonus level pays out once per player, per Score Rush. A wrong answer or timeout breaks your streak, but you keep any bonuses you have already earned. Reaching the same level again does not pay out twice. Three correct answers get a celebration, but no extra points. In multiplayer, you can earn the bonuses your own question count allows.

Your best score streak and bonuses appear in the results. Main-show rewards are not available or earned in Score Rush. The usual penalties for wrong or unanswered questions still apply.

Controls

Tap an answer or press A, B, C, or D on your keyboard. For two-answer questions, Y and N also work. Use the controls at the bottom to pause, restart, or quit. Sound can be switched on or off on the start screen.