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In Trivvy you type the answer yourself. There are no options to choose from, so you actually have to know the answer – but you don't have to spell it perfectly. The app accepts the solution, common variants and typos, and for years it accepts an answer within the margin shown on the card. Answers in one of the other languages the card exists in count too.

You can play as a guest with a nickname and an avatar, or create an account. With an account, your results, rating and friends list follow you from device to device. After each question you see the solution, and if you find a mistake in a card, you can tell us with “Something wrong with this card?” where the solution is shown.

Room with friends

Tap “Create a new room”. You become the quiz master and choose the category, the difficulty, how many questions the round has (10, 20 or 30) and how long each question gets (30 seconds, one minute or two minutes). You can pick one category, several that are mixed in the same round, or Mixed bag, which draws from all the main categories. You also choose whether the room is public – then it's listed on the front page until the round starts – or only for people with the code, and whether the cards can require local knowledge about your own country.

The others join by typing the four-character room code on the front page, or by opening the link you share. In the lobby everyone can see who's in, and each player can say they're ready. The quiz master starts the round, or sets a countdown so it starts by itself.

Everyone gets the same question at the same time and types the answer on their own phone. The question stays up until time runs out, or until everyone present has answered. Each correct answer gives one point. Then the solution appears along with everyone's answers, and you can react to each other's answers with an emoji.

If you disagree that your answer was wrong, you can dispute it while the solution is shown. The others in the room then vote, and the majority decides whether you get the point. If someone loses their connection, the game carries on without waiting for them, and they get straight back in when they return.

After the last question comes the podium with the winner, the full standings and awards like longest streak and fastest answer. You can vote for the funniest wrong answer of the round, and then play another round in the same room.

Hint mode

Hint mode is chosen when you create the room. As the clock runs, the letters of the solution appear one by one from the start – never more than three letters and never more than half the answer, so the last part of the time is always hint-free. Answer correctly before the first hint and you get four points. For each hint shown when you answer, you get one point less, down to one point.

Daily quiz

The daily quiz is five questions that are the same for everyone, and they change at midnight Norwegian time. You have one minute for each question, and after each answer you see the solution before moving on. You can play the daily quiz once a day. Play several days in a row and you build up a streak, and with an account you make it onto the leaderboard for the day.

Quiz rush

In Quiz rush you choose three or five minutes, and then it's all about answering as many questions correctly as you can before time runs out. You have three lives, and each wrong answer costs one. The round is over when the clock runs out or your lives are used up.

The questions start easy and gradually get harder. To keep things fast, the app judges the answers on the spot by itself: the solution, variants and typos are accepted, but not rephrasings. After the round you see your points, your longest streak and the hardest question you got right, plus your stats for today, this week and all time.

Quiz battle

Quiz battle is rush against another player. You choose three or five minutes and join the queue, and the app matches you with whoever is waiting with the rating closest to yours. You both get the same questions, you both have three lives, and whoever has the most correct answers when the round is over wins. You see your opponent's points and lives as you go, but never their answers.

If the app can't find an opponent after a little while, you can play against a recording of a real rush round instead. Battle gives rating, even when you play as a guest, but not against a recording. After the round you can ask for a rematch: if you both say yes within one minute, a new round starts.

Quiz challenge

In Quiz challenge you make a regular quiz with 5, 10 or 20 questions in a category you choose, and send the link to the people you want to challenge. Everyone gets the same questions, but each player plays when it suits them – nobody has to be on at the same time. If you have an account, you can also pick friends who get notified in the app.

You play your own round with the solution between each question. The link doesn't show the others' points, and you only see the standings once you've finished yourself. Each person can take a challenge once, and it stays open for a week.

30 questions

30 questions is the long round: 30 questions at your own pace, with no clock and no lives. After each answer you see the solution, and you move on when you're ready. If you close the page mid-round, you can pick up where you left off in the same browser. When you're done, you see your result and can play another round.

Family game

The family game is played taking turns around the table. One person creates the room and gets a five-letter code that the others type in. Each phone can hold one or more players, so a child without a phone can play from a grown-up's. Each player gets a level, and everyone gets questions at their own level, so kids can beat grown-ups.

Only the phone of the player whose turn it is can answer. You can also pass, or say the answer out loud – then a grown-up on another phone decides whether it was right. The room can have from one to ten rounds. If a child is playing, no ads are shown in the room. The family game is new, and we're still fine-tuning it.

Ghost rounds

You'll find ghost rounds in the lobby. A ghost round is a real round others have played before, replayed: the same questions, with the other players' answers coming in at the same pace as when they were given. The players are shown only as “Player 1”, “Player 2” and so on, without names. Ghost rounds don't give rating.

Countries and categories

The cards are divided into main categories like history, geography and sports, niches like film, music and food, and countries. Pick a country and you get questions about that particular country, across all topics. You can also combine several categories in the same room or challenge, and the round then takes turns between them. The difficulty can be easy, medium, hard or mixed.

Rating and leaderboard

If you have an account, you get a rating per category when you play in rooms with others. Everyone starts at 800, and after each round your rating goes up or down depending on how you did against each of the others in the room. It moves the most in your first games. Rooms where you play alone, the daily quiz and ghost rounds don't give rating. On the leaderboard you'll find the best at the daily quiz and the highest-rated players in each category.