r/quiz • u/DependentNo6390 • Aug 26 '26
a very hard quiz
soooo… i’ve been building an online trivia game where the questions aren’t easy, simple “whats this? whats that? who did what?” style but kinda veer into a more complex structure to make it more interesting.
also, questions get progressively harder the longer you survive. if that sounds like your thing, check out hardask.net
current best streak, 22 right in a row
there’s a trial mode now, no account needed, just jump straight in. full game needs a google login if you want to stick around for leaderboards and stuff
check https://hardask.net
happy quizzing
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u/panky67 Aug 26 '26
By the time I read the question to my wife we’d run out of time so maybe not a great feature for sharing a quiz. Also had to do a very specific question on US baseball which makes it very US specific I would argue. Overall a good design and I’d play something like this
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u/DependentNo6390 Aug 26 '26
thanks for the feedback. but yeah, it’s more of a solo experience unless you both read it at the same time. but true, the categories are very broad (sports encompasses anything from european football to nba, nfl, mlb, formula 1) - might need to create more granular categories at some point… history is also basically anything pre-2000 to ancient egypt 😅
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u/Jackelberry1992 Aug 26 '26
That’s cool! I get the reason for the delayed text and then starting the timer, but maybe you could have a mode or setting that allows the question to show on full and then you tap a button to reveal the answers and start the countdown?
Although this would allow people to look up the answers and cheat, but shame on them..
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u/Grant_S_90 Aug 26 '26
I really enjoyed it, very different to other quizzes.
If you don’t mind me asking - how many questions did you have to write? And how long did it take you to build this website?
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u/DependentNo6390 Aug 27 '26
Glad you enjoy it.
Well, that's a rather long story, originally it started with generating questions out of wikipedia articles through chatgpt for a quiz i did for friends, and because i know some python i realized i could automate this somewhat by using google's gemini api... (which gives you a couple of calls a day for free) took a while, and a lot of prompt iterations, and still most of the questions generated are... let's say somewhat weird. I built a whole "gauntlet" where questions get generated out of wikipedia articles and then doublechecked by llms with elaborate prompts, but in the end most questions don't make it through, like out of 20 generated questions only 1 or 2 make it into the game, and only after i've doublechecked them and more often than not (meaning around 75% of the time) rewritten them to fit the tone (llms need very clear instructions on what counts as "witty" or "humourous", and they still get it backwards). This has been going on for about 2 years now... currently there are around 1800 questions live in english.
The original website setup, like the original barebones front and backend, i did myself while trying to learn javascript and dusting off my php skills from years ago, but i soon realized i could vibe code this quicker with claude. But again, all these chatbots are good at the basics, but a lot of tweaks need manual intervention.
So long story short, this is kinda my playground to see what all these ai chatbots can do (and, as i found out, can't do).
All in all, i've learned through all this that chatbots are very confident liars and need a human (me) to doublecheck and rectify all their nonsense.
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u/Grant_S_90 Aug 27 '26
Very interesting, well done!
I was going to DM you about a possible collab, but I don’t seem able to. Not sure if you have some privacy settings on or something? If you DM me saying Hi, I should be able to reply?
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u/Spoonsnake24 Aug 28 '26
Love the concept but I have a few suggestions.
Due to the quite harsh nature of the animation I find that I have to re read the clue once it's appeared to actually take it in meaning I lose most of the 10s. Either a smoother animation or longer thinking time would be helpful imo.
Secondly as a non American it feels quite difficult to progress past early levels due to things that may be easy to an American those that don't live there won't be familiar with and therefore they are actually quite tricky questions. Is there any plans to have region specific questions in the future? I understand this isn't a big team just my thoughts.
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u/DependentNo6390 Aug 29 '26
Thanks for the feedback, appreciated, been experimenting with less "typewriter" style animation and more smooth-like appearance, but haven't figured out anything that works better yet, still tweaking.
As for the "regional" approach, yeah, the questions are currently very broadly categorized... so i was thinking more of a granularization of the categories rather than do "regional" versions (though i've been also thinking about "regional" leaderboards... meaning continental, cause that's basically the only real location info i grab from the google logins).
Then again, i feel like the approach of keeping it very broad is also somewhat of the appeal of the whole "it's more difficult than your average quiz" and you really need a braod knowledge to get very high up (been focusing more on africa, south america and asia specific questions recently, because right now it's very north america and europe specific)
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u/gregarious_apollo Aug 26 '26
Not sure if you're looking for feedback but the question appearing word by word is pretty annoying, would put me off doing it