Trivia Gauntlet — a daily trivia game where you don't need to know the answer
Game Title: Trivia Gauntlet
Playable Link: http://trivia-gauntlet.com
Platform: Web
I got tired of trivia games where you either know it or you don't. Miss a multiple-choice question, get a red X, feel dumb, move on. So I built one around estimation instead. You can play sports, geography, history, and entertainment.
Trivia Gauntlet is a free daily browser game. Most questions are numbers — how many career yards, what year did this happen, how long is this river — and you score based on how close you land. If the answer is 1,847 and you guess 1,900, you still bank most of the points. It turns out "I have a rough sense of this" is a much more interesting skill to test than "I memorized this."
The mechanic I'm most curious to hear about: you can spend points to reveal a reference point. Stuck on a river's length? Burn some of your score and I'll show you a river you've heard of and how long that one is. Now you're not guessing blind, you're triangulating. It turns a dead question into a solvable one, but you pay for it. The real decision is whether your hunch is worth more than the points.
We also released the following modes:
GeoGauntlet — rank places by some superlative (largest, longest, highest). Harder than it sounds once the gaps get tight.
Sports Gauntlet — rank sports stats. Players and teams across major sports.
Higher/Lower - sports, history, entertainment, geography. You’re presented with 2 stats and you choose which is higher or lower. Keep going until your streak ends.
New puzzles daily, takes about two minutes, and you get a shareable result at the end.
It's free, no ads, no paywall. Game was developed over the last month by me and a friend.
Happy to answer anything about the data sourcing or how the scoring formula works. I'll be in the comments and would love feedback.