Clamber

Clamber is a daily trivia game by an independent developer who signs as Zane. It runs in the browser at clamber.me with no account or download, and the same game is listed on itch.io, Game Jolt and IndieDB.

Every day there is one climb, numbered from Climb #1 on 25 October 2026. A climb is ten prompts like "Name a shark" or "Name a Beatles album", ordered from easier to harder. You get 20 seconds per prompt to type a single answer. If it is true, the game sorts it into one of six tiers by how widely known it is. The most common answers add nothing. Middling ones add 25 points, and the rarest add 100. The tenth prompt is the "Summit Push", worth one and a half times as much.

The points turn into altitude. A small climber in a hard hat goes up a ladder over a city, and the counter tells you how far it is to the next landmark, starting with the Statue of Liberty. There are 25 landmarks on the way up, and 930 points reaches the Moon. You carry three hard hats. A wrong answer, a timeout or a skip costs one, and losing all three means you "lose your grip". An answer the game does not recognise as a word only costs two seconds, so typos are cheap. The first two prompts are a warm-up where a timeout counts like a skip.

What counts as true comes from Wikidata. How rare an answer is comes from English Wikipedia, which the site uses to measure how widely known each thing is. The tiers are fixed before the day starts, so your score does not depend on what other players typed that morning. That is the main difference from games such as Krillion or Rarest Answer, which score you against the crowd.

The daily set is drawn from a bank of 650 prompts on a schedule. Each prompt comes back every 60 days, though the mix of ten is new each day. The climb opens at your own midnight, and a countdown shows when the next one starts.

After the climb you can share your result or send a challenge link to a friend. The daily leaderboard ranks by height, then by how many Rare and Rarest answers you found, then by time. Past climbs are posted two days later and can be played from the climbs page. Endless mode keeps going past the Moon while the clock shrinks from 20 seconds to 10. The eight packs cover geography, animals, food, movies, music, sports, science and history, about 80 prompts each, all free.

Clamber is free and carries Google ads, but none sat over the board when we played on a laptop or a phone.