Trivia Gauntlet

About Trivia Gauntlet

Trivia Gauntlet is a long-form trivia run from Mind Loft, the free daily puzzle and quiz site at mindloftdaily.com. Instead of playing each daily quiz on its own, you take them in one sitting: seven quizzes, around 180 multiple choice questions, with one score at the end.

The run always has a few fixed parts. Streak is forty questions of anything at all, and Deep is a shorter round on a single topic that changes daily (golf one day, ancient China the next). Around them sit five rounds that rotate through film and TV, sport, the arts, business, history, science, geography and famous lines. Each question gives you four answers and twenty seconds.

The stakes are what set it apart. Each quiz gives you one life: a wrong answer or a timeout ends that quiz, and the next one starts by itself. Your total is how many you got right across all seven. As you play, a panel shows how far you are behind the day's leader, the place you would hold if you stopped now, and how many players are still alive in the current quiz.

The start screen shows how many people have played that day, the leader's score, and for each quiz the average and the best run so far. A Rankings page lists the day's players. It is free, with no sign-up, and it suits players who already do Mind Loft's single quizzes and want a longer test, or anyone practising for a quiz show.

How to play Trivia Gauntlet

1. Open Trivia Gauntlet on Mind Loft and look over today's seven quizzes and their question counts.
2. Press Take your run to start the first quiz.
3. Read each question and pick one of four answers with a click or the keys 1 to 4 within twenty seconds.
4. Keep answering until you miss or run out of time; that ends the quiz and the next one starts on its own.
5. Play through all seven quizzes and compare your total of right answers with the day's rankings.

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Tips

• Use the number keys 1 to 4: they are quicker than the mouse when the timer runs low.
• The Streak round has forty questions, the most of any quiz, so a long run there counts for more than anywhere else.
• Check the Deep topic on the start screen before you begin; it changes daily and is the one round you can think about ahead.
• Watch the panel during the run: it shows how many more right answers would pass the next place or take first.

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