Which game was that?
You remember the picture, not the name. Here is every game we know, with a close-up of the thing you actually saw on screen, so you can match it in a second.
Every picture below is a real screenshot taken from the live game.
A small green alien
A little green alien standing next to his crashed ship, usually with a pumpkin beside him. He is the only character on the screen.
- A night forest — Pixel-art woods after dark, with a spiderweb hanging in the top-left corner and a black sky behind the trees.
- A score, a run number and a clock — SCORE sits in the top-left, RUN #15 in the top-right, and the question count and countdown sit under the picture.
A rocket on a launch pad
A night sky over a launch pad. Your rocket lifts off and climbs higher the rarer your answer is.
- A worked example on the screen — The prompt screen shows a common answer worth +10 next to an obscure one worth +100, so you can see the scale before you type anything.
- A countdown beside the question — Each question comes with a 25-second timer, and the answer box sits directly under the prompt.
A krill in the ocean
A little krill descends through a deep blue ocean as your answers score.
- Depth markers — Ocean zones and depth labels appear along the dive.
- Begin Descent — The opening screen invites you to begin a daily dive.
A museum object
Each round begins with a photographed artifact from an open-access museum collection.
- A world map — You place a pin on the map to guess where the object was made.
- A timeline — You also choose the time period before submitting the round.
A daily clue
The opening screen shows a short clue and a Play Now button.
- Six-letter guesses — The puzzle board and keyboard accept six-letter answers.
- More clues after mistakes — Each wrong guess unlocks another hint about the same word.
A bunny digging downwards
A cross-section of soil with a rabbit burrowing down through it, and pumpkins and Halloween decorations on the surface above.
- Warm earth colours — Autumn browns and pumpkin orange, with the tunnel getting deeper as the run goes on.
- A trivia question above ground — The prompt sits above the scene. You read the question, then watch the bunny descend for your answer.
Balloons rising over a forest
A pixel-art forest with a pond at the bottom and a small character at the base, with balloons carrying you up into the sky.
- A list of four stages — The menu shows four stages: Sky climb, Tabletop, Frozen Peak and Haunted Manor.
- A rule that inverts everything else — This is the game where the most common answer wins, so you are trying to guess what a stranger would type rather than what is unusual.
A retro CRT screen
Amber text on a curved old-television picture with scanlines. It looks like nothing else on this list.
- A timeline underneath — Your time traveller stands on a horizontal timeline, and the closer your year is to the truth, the further along they travel.
- A column of points — The screen shows the scoring bands: exact 100, close 85, near 60, rough 30, else 10.
Still not sure?
They look almost nothing alike on purpose. If you remember the rules rather than the picture, that is the easier way in.
- The rare one wins. A rocket, a bunny, a krill, an alien — unusual answers score highest.
- The common one wins. Balloons — guess what a stranger would type.
- The precise one wins. A timeline — closer years score more.
- The place wins. A map — pin where the object was made, and when.