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Rarest Answer Game — Guess the Rarest Answer

Daily round

Today's round

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Before you play

  1. Rarer answers score more, from 5 to 100.
  2. 25 seconds on the clock. A miss costs 1 second.
  3. Spotlight doubles one prompt, and only when you score.

How to play

  1. Press Play. A daily round deals 7 prompts when the list is full, fewer when a category is still empty, and the same prompts for everyone on your local date.
  2. Type any real answer and press Enter. Capital letters, accents, punctuation, and a leading "the" do not matter. On a name of six letters or more, one wrong character still counts.
  3. You have 25 seconds. A wrong guess takes 1 second off the clock and you can try again. Turn the timer off before the round if you want to think, then use Pass when you are done.
  4. Arm Spotlight once per round to double that prompt. It is spent only when you score, and you can turn it off again before you submit.
  5. After each prompt you see your tier. A list of ten or fewer answers is shown in full, rarest first. A longer list shows the ten rarest and the ten most common. The share grid is colored squares. It does not include what you typed.
  6. From the answer box, Enter submits. Tab moves to Guess and Pass. Escape closes a dialog.

Your stats

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Best streak
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Best daily
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Dailies
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Rounds
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Points
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Guesses by tier
Daily scores

What is the Rarest Answer game?

Finding rare answers is the skill. Every prompt has many right answers, and the rarest answer wins the points. A common guess still counts.

The Rarest Answer game is free daily trivia in the browser. Each prompt has many correct answers. You guess the rarest answer you can still defend, because the rarest answer wins the points. A rare answer game still scores a common guess. It just scores less. Finding rare answers means staying inside the set.

There is no account. The daily round is one shared set for your local date, saved in this browser, and it resets at local midnight. Unlimited play and each category page deal extra rounds that do not move the streak.

The full rules are on how to play the Rarest Answer game . A daily round works like this.

  1. Press Play. A daily round deals 7 prompts when the list is full, fewer when a category is still empty, and the same prompts for everyone on your local date.
  2. Type any real answer and press Enter. Capital letters, accents, punctuation, and a leading "the" do not matter. On a name of six letters or more, one wrong character still counts.
  3. You have 25 seconds. A wrong guess takes 1 second off the clock and you can try again. Turn the timer off before the round if you want to think, then use Pass when you are done.
  4. Arm Spotlight once per round to double that prompt. It is spent only when you score, and you can turn it off again before you submit.
  5. After each prompt you see your tier. A list of ten or fewer answers is shown in full, rarest first. A longer list shows the ten rarest and the ten most common. The share grid is colored squares. It does not include what you typed.
  6. From the answer box, Enter submits. Tab moves to Guess and Pass. Escape closes a dialog.

How rarity is measured

Rarity is a rank inside one prompt. A name is common or legendary only beside the other accepted answers on that prompt. When the source names Wikipedia, the answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0) and monthly English Wikipedia pageviews set the rank. More views means a lower tier. When the source names Wiktionary, the rank uses monthly English Wiktionary pageviews. Any other source is placeholder popularity, not a live pageview count. Every prompt in this list records a pageview source: "English Wikipedia "List of Stranger Things characters" via MediaWiki parse (cast tables, character headings, and recurring/guest credits) + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10); a name with no article counts as 1", "Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10)", and "Wikidata lexemes + Wiktionary pageviews (2026-10)".

Each published prompt has its ranking on rarest answers.

Scoring tiers

Points for one prompt. Spotlight doubles those points once per round.
Tier What it means Points
Common Most players will say it 5
Familiar Widely known 10
Uncommon A solid, less obvious pick 20
Rare Specialist knowledge 40
Epic Few people land here 70
Legendary Among the least known answers on this prompt 100

Tips for finding rare answers

Finding rare answers means skipping the famous name when you still have a legal one. A guess the list does not accept scores nothing, and a common legal answer still beats a blank. Save Spotlight for a specific answer you can defend. The guides below are the long version.

Rarest Answer and Krillion

Rarest Answer is the game on this site. Krillion is a separate daily game. The Krillion page here is unofficial. It says krillion.io has an Unlimited path, and that a public rules page for that path's limits was not available when the guide was checked on 14 November 2026. Unlimited rounds on this site do not use Krillion's scoring. The games-like-Krillion page is the comparison with other daily games opened for this site.

More ways to play

Rarest Answer questions

A free daily trivia game in the browser. Each prompt has many correct answers. You type one, and rarer answers score more points. There is no account and no download.

Skip the first name that comes to mind. Other players will type it too, and it lands in a low tier. A specific answer you know from a niche usually scores higher. A common answer still beats a blank one. Finding rare answers is mostly refusing your own first instinct.

At midnight in your own time zone. Everyone on the same local date gets the same prompts. The round is saved in this browser, so a reload continues it. Play again the next local day and the streak continues. Skip a day and it starts over.

A wrong guess costs 1 second and the box shakes. You can try again until the 25-second clock runs out. Typing the same guess again is rejected and does not cost another second. With the timer off, a wrong guess only shakes, and Pass ends the prompt with no points.

Once each round you can arm Spotlight before you answer. That prompt scores double. It is spent only when you actually score, so a timeout with Spotlight armed does not waste it. Tap it again to disarm it before you submit.

Rarity is a rank inside one prompt. A name is common or legendary only beside the other accepted answers on that prompt. When the source names Wikipedia, the answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0) and monthly English Wikipedia pageviews set the rank. More views means a lower tier. When the source names Wiktionary, the rank uses monthly English Wiktionary pageviews. Any other source is placeholder popularity, not a live pageview count. Every prompt in this list records a pageview source: "English Wikipedia "List of Stranger Things characters" via MediaWiki parse (cast tables, character headings, and recurring/guest credits) + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10); a name with no article counts as 1", "Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10)", and "Wikidata lexemes + Wiktionary pageviews (2026-10)". The six tiers, from most common to rarest, are Common (5), Familiar (10), Uncommon (20), Rare (40), Epic (70), Legendary (100).

The daily round is once per local day. Unlimited mode deals a fresh round whenever you want. Each category page does the same for one topic. Those rounds do not change the daily streak.

Yes. The daily round, unlimited mode, the category rounds, and the no-timer option are free. If ads are turned on later, they stay outside the play area.