Uncommet

Uncommet is a free daily rare answer trivia game. Every day brings eight prompts, the same for everyone: a country in Africa, a Pixar film, a US Supreme Court justice, a chemical element. You type one real answer to each before a 20-second clock runs out. Every answer on our list counts, and the rarer your answer, the more it is worth: the answer everyone says first scores 10 points, one that almost nobody thinks of scores 100. It is a quick brain teaser for anyone who loves quiz games and the feeling of knowing something nobody else thought of.

The whole day is one journey. Each answer is a burn that pushes your rocket further from Earth, starting wherever the last one left it, and your running total is your place on a real scale: past the Eiffel Tower, Everest and the Kármán line where space begins, the Space Station and the satellites, then out among the worlds. Your rocket lands on the Moon at 186 points, Mars at 273, Europa under Jupiter at 367, Titan under Saturn at 454 and Pluto at 611, and a perfect 800 meets Voyager 1 one light-day out. Every landmark carries one true fact. Every prompt also hides Today's Comet, one hand-picked answer with a fact attached; name it and the comet streaks in beside your rocket. Miss it and it stays a secret: the game never tells you an answer you did not give.

Rarity is not a guess. Every list is built from Wikidata and checked against the matching Wikipedia list, so a correct answer is always on it, other names and spellings count too, and small typos are forgiven. Your answer is painted down the side of your rocket as you type. Press Enter or LAUNCH: a name on the list launches at once, and if you were close (a typo, or most of a long name), the game asks "Did you mean …?" with one answer you can launch with a tap. Nothing is suggested while you type, so the game never hands you an answer you did not think of. How rare an answer is comes from how often people look it up on Wikipedia and how many languages have an article on it, measured the same way for everyone, so your score is fair and verified like every ranked game on Gamefinity. A name that is not on the list is refused and you can try again while the clock runs; made-up words never score.

Each day is a numbered mission, and you fly it once: one mission a day for each account and each browser, so every score on the board is a first try. The game never pauses with a question open, so nobody can stop the clock to look an answer up: if you switch away mid-question, that stage gets no burn. After every burn the flight log prints a true fact about the answer you gave, and the next prompt waits until you press NEXT LAUNCH, so you can read it at your own pace. At the end you get the mission chart, your whole flight path with a flag at every stage, and the flight report: your score out of 800, where the journey reached, your best burn, and a share line that shows your score without spoiling any answers. More than 1,000 prompts cover places and geography, people and history, nature, food, music, film and TV, books, art, games, sport, science and language: cities by country and by state, rivers, islands and national parks, presidents, monarchs and Nobel laureates, dog breeds and dinosaurs, cheeses and cocktails, songs and albums by artist, films by actor and director, the elements and the constellations, football clubs and NFL teams. No prompt comes back for months. Each day starts with easy prompts and builds to harder ones, and a new set arrives at midnight ET. If you liked Krillion and are looking for games like Krillion, this is our take on the rare answer idea, with our own scale, scoring and look; Gamefinity is not affiliated with Krillion.

It plays on every screen. On a phone, type on your phone's own keyboard (swipe typing works too) and press send or tap LAUNCH; on a computer, just type and press Enter. A mission takes three or four minutes, and your result goes on the day's leaderboard when you are signed in. Find it with our other daily games, daily trivia games, brain games, geography games and quick games, on mobile or PC.