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Outrivia: The daily trivia game where rare answers win
Think beyond the obvious. Name what nobody else will and pull the crowd your way.
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A daily trivia game you can play in your browser
Outrivia is a free trivia game where the answer nobody else thinks of wins.
Every day Outrivia brings ten trivia prompts with 30 seconds each. Name anything that fits: the rarer your answer, the more points you score and the more of the table's 100 people follow you home.
There is nothing to install and no account to make. Press Play above for today's ten, or open Unlimited for another trivia run whenever you like. It works with a mouse and keyboard, and on a phone with the on-screen keyboard open.
How to play Outrivia
Outrivia is a rare answers game: one trivia prompt, thirty seconds, and a crowd that follows the rarest answer.
Each trivia prompt names a category, such as “Name a capital city in Europe”, and Outrivia gives you 30 seconds to type an answer of your own.
In most trivia games the first right answer is enough. In Outrivia, the first idea that comes to mind is usually everyone's, and those answers are the busy tiles.
Your Outrivia figurine hops to your answer. The rarer it is, the more points you score, and the more of the table's 100 people walk over to your home tile.
Read the full rules for what counts as an answer, how the reveal works, streaks and challenge links.
Why the rare answer wins
Same Outrivia prompt, five answers. Tap one to see what it scores.
Every Outrivia prompt has a crowd. When you answer, the table shows the five answers most people give as tiles with the crowd standing on them, and everyone else waits under Other answers. For “Name a capital city in Europe” the busy tiles are Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and Madrid.
Then your figurine hops to your answer. Say and you squeeze onto the busiest tile: 10 points, and nobody turns round. Say and you get a tile of your own, far from everyone: 100 points, the whole table turns to look, and some of the crowd follow you home.
Every accepted answer scores something, so a quick safe answer is never wasted. But in Outrivia the rarest answers are worth ten times the most common ones. That is the whole idea of a rare answers game: length and spelling don't matter, only how few people would think of it.
OUTLIERSkopje+200
Almost nobody thinks of this.
100 points × 2 for question 4
8 people follow you
How Outrivia scoring works
Each accepted answer falls into one of five Outrivia bands. The band comes from a commonness score we give every answer in our trivia question bank, and it sets the base points.
- CrowdMost people's first answer.×10×20×31×41
10pts - PopularPlenty of people think of this.×11×22×33×44
25pts - UncommonFewer people get here.×12×24×36×48
50pts - StandoutFew people think of this.×13×26×39×412
75pts - OutlierAlmost nobody thinks of this.×14×28×312×416
100pts
Base points for each Outrivia band, and how many people follow one answer in a ×1, ×2, ×3 and ×4 question.
Questions 3 to 5 of an Outrivia Daily count twice, 6 to 8 three times and 9 and 10 four times, and every 25 points pulls one person to your home tile. For the thresholds, a worked example and how each title is earned, see how scoring works in detail.
Win the crowd
Every Outrivia run starts with a hundred people on the table. The rarer you answer, the more of them follow you home.
The crowd is 100 little tourists. After each answer, one of them walks over to your home tile for every 25 points you scored, and stays there with a ring in your colour. The number on your tile keeps count.
At the end of an Outrivia run the result reads “You pulled 26 of 100”. Ten Outliers pull all 100: that is a perfect Daily. The people are what count: a challenge, its board and today's percentile all compare how many you pulled, and points only break a tie on the board.
A title for how you played
Every Outrivia run ends with a title: The Outlier for three or more Outliers, Wildcard for two or more Outliers alongside three or more Crowd answers, then the rest as your answers get more common.
- The Outlier
- Wildcard
- Free Thinker
- Side-Stepper
- Trend Spotter
- Crowd Pleaser
How to think of an answer nobody else will
In most trivia you look for the right answer. In a rare answers game like Outrivia you look for the unusual one, and three habits help.
Name a capital city in Europe
- Where everyone startsParisCrowdLondonCrowdRomeCrowd
- Go northOsloPopularHelsinkiUncommon
- Into the AlpsBernUncommonVaduzOutlier
- Down to the BalkansZagrebStandoutSkopjeOutlier
Name the crowd's answer, then leave it
The first answer that comes to mind is usually the crowd's. Say it to yourself, then look somewhere else on purpose. After every answer the Outrivia reveal card shows “Most said Paris, London, Rome (est.)”, the first thoughts you were up against, so each prompt teaches you where the crowd stands.
Give your memory a route
Don't search everything at once. For European capitals, go region by region. For a moon in our solar system, go planet by planet: Earth gives The Moon (Crowd), Mars gives Deimos (Uncommon) and Jupiter gives Adrastea (Outlier).
Keep a safe answer ready
Thirty seconds go fast. A Crowd answer still scores, while a brilliant idea still in the box when time runs out scores nothing. Unlimited is the place to practise, and after every run the answers review shows a few rare answers from our list that you could have given.
A free daily trivia game with a streak to keep
Everyone plays the same ten Outrivia prompts each day, and new ones arrive at midnight.
More than ten?
Outrivia Unlimited is the same game with no daily cap: 10, 20 or endless prompts from the whole bank, free, whenever you like.
After the Daily, open the answers review to see your answer and its band, what most people said, and a few rare answers from our list. The full list stays hidden, so an Outrivia prompt is still fun when it comes round again.
Share your result and challenge a friend
Trivia is more fun against someone you know, so every Outrivia run ends with cards and a link made for that.
When an Outrivia run ends, Share & challenge makes share cards and a short text. The text shows how many people you pulled, one coloured circle per question and your title, but none of your answers, so it never spoils the Daily for anyone.
Outrivia Unlimited · 🧍38/100 🟢⚪🔵🟣⚪🔵🟣🔵⚪🟣 Side-Stepper · beat Mia 38–25 outrivia.com/c/…
Play the same prompts as your friends
Every Daily share, and every share of a 10- or 20-prompt Unlimited run, carries a challenge link. A friend who opens it plays the same prompts, and after each answer they see your figurine on the tile you chose, with your name on it. At the end they see where they landed on the board of everyone who played that link.
When your friend shares, their link brings new players to the same board, so a whole group can play one challenge. It's an easy way to play trivia with friends online: no account, just a random nickname such as Swift Otter that you can change before you send.
Outrivia FAQ
Short answers to what people ask before their first Outrivia run.
Is Outrivia free?
Yes. Outrivia is a free daily trivia game with no account and no paywall, and Unlimited is free too. Start from the game at the top of this page.
Can I play Outrivia on my phone?
Yes. Outrivia runs in a phone browser, and the answer box stays above the on-screen keyboard for the whole run. Press Go, or your keyboard's Go key, to answer.
How long does an Outrivia Daily take?
Ten trivia prompts with up to 30 seconds each is at most five minutes of answering, plus a few seconds of reveal after each answer. Answer sooner to finish sooner, or tap the table to speed up a reveal.
How is Outrivia different from other trivia games?
Most trivia games have one right answer and reward whoever finds it first. Outrivia accepts many right answers and rewards the one fewest people would give. That makes it a rare answers game: knowing a lot helps, but thinking differently wins.
What kind of trivia questions does Outrivia ask?
Prompts come from everyday categories: places, food, music, books, sport and the human body. Each one names a category, such as a capital city in Europe or a Pixar film, and accepts many answers, from the famous to the forgotten.
How does Outrivia decide which answers are rare?
Every accepted answer in our trivia question bank has a commonness score, set in advance, and that score decides its band. Bands aren't live percentages of other players, which is why “Most said” is marked (est.). An Outlier means very few people think of that answer, not that you were the only one.
Why wasn't my answer accepted?
Each prompt has a prepared list of accepted answers. Common variants, plurals and small typos are recognised, but no list is complete, so try another answer while the clock runs. If you pass or run out of time, the result card has a “Should this count? Tell us” button for answers you think we missed, and every answer the game turns down is counted anonymously so we can add the ones that should count.
How do challenge links work?
Every share carries a short link like outrivia.com/c/k7Qm2x9A. Your friend plays the same prompts and sees your pick after each of theirs, and everyone who plays that link lands on one board. To make the board and today's percentile work we keep each finished run: your nickname, answers and scores, and a random id created in your browser. There is no account and no email.
Is my progress saved?
Your Daily progress, streak and settings are saved in this browser when storage is available. They don't follow you to another device or a private window, and clearing this site's data removes them.
Can I see all the answers?
Not all of them. After a run you see your answer's band, what most people said and a few rare answers from our list. The full list stays hidden so a prompt is still worth playing when it comes round again.
Ten prompts. One crowd. How many will you pull?
Play today's ten trivia prompts, or warm up in Unlimited. The answers nobody else gives win the most.