Hopdown: How to Answer for Maximum Depth
Hopdown gives you trivia questions and a bunny who digs down for answers most people miss. The scoring is not published as a table like Eraly's, but the principle is the same one Cosmillion uses: the crowd answer is worth almost nothing.
The bunny only moves for unusual answers
The obvious answer barely moves the bunny at all. That is the entire feedback loop of the game: the first answer you think of is the one that does nothing, so you have to keep looking inside the same category for something the crowd skipped.
Stay obviously correct
This is the trap. An answer so unusual that it might not even fit the prompt scores nothing at all, because the game has to be able to judge it. Aim for something a reasonable person would accept as a correct answer, but that most people would not have written down first.
Change the category, not the wording
If the prompt has a wide range of answers, picking a different sub-category is almost always worth more than rephrasing the answer you already had. A different kind of thing beats a better word for the same thing.
Trivia prompts hide their own answer
The prompt is the whole puzzle, and prompts that sound narrow are often broad. Before you settle for the first plausible answer, spend a moment asking what the setter was actually expecting — that answer is usually worth more than the inventive one.
Recognise the screen
The Hopdown start screen has a white rabbit above a cross-section of brown soil. The bright orange button starts the daily dive; pumpkins, ghosts and small objects mark the surface and underground layers.
Use the next prompt to adjust
After each answer, compare how far the bunny moved. If a familiar answer barely advances the dive, try a less obvious example from the next prompt while keeping the category clear. The depth is the feedback the game gives you.
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