Rules & scoring
How to play Rarest Answer
Rarest Answer flips normal trivia upside down. You don’t need to know the answer — you need to know one almost nobody else would say out loud.
The daily dig, step by step
- One dig per day. Every player gets the same 7 questions, generated at 00:00 UTC. No account needed — your progress is saved in your browser.
- 25 seconds per question. The timer starts the moment the question appears. Type an answer and press Enter as many times as you like.
- First correct guess scores. The moment one of your guesses is valid, the question is scored and moves on. Faster isn’t better — rarer is better.
- Miss or run out of time? The question scores zero, and the full curated answer list is revealed.
- Seven answers, 700 points max. Your total updates your best score and, if you complete the dig, your streak.
The four rarity tiers
Every question carries a hand-curated answer list. Curators sort each valid answer into one of four tiers:
Common25 pts
The answer almost everyone reaches for first. Valid, but obvious.
Uncommon55 pts
A solid answer hiding just beyond the obvious.
Rare80 pts
A deep cut that takes real recall — the sweet spot.
Stellar100 pts
A valid answer almost nobody remembers. Bragging rights.
A worked example
Take the question “Name an animal that can fly but is not a bird.” Its list starts like this:
Common · 25
- bat
- butterfly
- bee
Uncommon · 55
- flying fish
- dragonfly
- flying squirrel
Rare · 80
- pterodactyl
- sugar glider
- flying snake
Stellar · 100
- colugo
- hawk moth
- gliding squid
Guess “bat” and you bank 25. Say “sugar glider” and you nearly quadruple it. The colugo — the flying lemur of Southeast Asia — is the kind of memory that wins the day.
Strategy tips
- Pause before you type. Your first impulse is exactly the common tier. Give it three seconds.
- Change the country, the decade, the phylum. Most players answer within their own culture. Swapping continents almost always jumps a tier.
- Offspring and hybrids count. If the question says “animal”, the juvenile form is usually a Stellar-tier trap everyone forgets.
- Don’t rush the wrong thing. You have 25 seconds for many guesses. Burn the first ten on shortlists, not on one desperate long shot.
- Streaks reward showing up. A complete dig keeps your streak alive even at 12/700. Miss a day and it resets.