KEGILLION FIELD NOTES

How to play Kegillion

Recall one answer that fits the prompt. A less obvious accepted answer earns more editor-estimated points. You play seven prompts, with 25 seconds for each.

Your first round

1. Choose Daily Rush or a themed practice pack. Read the preparation screen before pressing Start.
2. Read both the prompt and its short condition. Type one answer, then press Enter or Submit. You do not need to name every valid answer.
3. Read your score and the explanation. Next prompt starts the next 25-second interval; feedback remains available until you continue.
4. Finish all seven prompts to see the total, each result and your best accepted answer. Copy a spoiler-safe text result or save the PNG scorecard.

What makes an answer rare?

Scores are editorial estimates for English-speaking US general trivia players. They are not measured player percentages. A short, everyday word can be less immediately recalled for one prompt; long spelling alone earns no bonus. There are no speed or streak bonuses.

For the practice prompt “Name an instrument that has strings,” guitar is an immediate association; another instrument may follow a different recall path. Your actual accepted answer and its fixed score appear after submission. Equivalent recorded aliases always receive the same score.

Each prompt has a rule ceiling of 100 and a round has a ceiling of 700. A particular prepared round may have a lower attainable maximum; not every question has a 100-point answer. Unrecognized, rejected and timed-out answers earn 0 when finalized.

Why was my answer not recognized?

The server checks a finite answer list and explicit aliases after normalizing letter case, Unicode width, punctuation and spacing. It does not use a live AI judge. An unrecognized answer may still be valid in the real world; it means this version has not recorded it. Your typed answer stays in the box. Edit and retry before the original deadline, or explicitly continue for 0.

“Does not fit this prompt” means an explicitly recorded exclusion conflicts with the visible condition. Read that condition and try another candidate while time remains. Corrections can be reported through Contact; include the prompt and mode, and avoid sending personal information.

Timing and refresh

The server starts a 25-second deadline when you start a prompt. Reloading, switching tabs or changing your device clock cannot pause or reset it. A retry uses the same deadline. You may take time reading feedback between prompts. Network failures keep the entered answer; retry or reload to recover the server-saved state.

Daily and themed practice

Daily uses the date in America/New_York and allows one attempt per browser identity for that date. An unfinished attempt expires at the next New York midnight; finished results remain saved. Prepared content is finite, not an unlimited daily feed. The game identifies the prepared window when one exists and stops offering a Daily when it runs out.

Each of the five themes has three prepared seven-question rounds. They rotate in order and then repeat as labeled practice. A practice round does not expire at midnight; an active prompt still has its 25-second deadline. Practice and Daily have separate records and shares.

Finding a saved game

As a guest, use the same browser and keep its Kegillion cookie. Reload the game to recover progress and the original clock; use View your result after completion. Clearing cookies, private browsing or using another device can create a different guest identity.

For cross-device recovery, optionally create and verify an account in Your games. Sign in, then explicitly attach this browser’s earlier games. Signing in on a second browser finds the same progress and original timer. Attachment never changes saved questions or scores. Signing out protects attached records from someone who only has the old guest cookie.

Optional Daily standings

Daily allows one original attempt per account across attached browsers. If you attach several earlier guest attempts for the same date, all records remain private, while the earliest created Daily is used by the home play entry and for ranking eligibility. Existing later games remain restorable from private history, but cannot provide another ranked result. The earliest Daily must be completed before it can appear; a later, higher score does not replace it.

Public sharing is off until you choose a public nickname and opt in through Your games. Only the nickname, Daily score and rank appear. Equal scores share a rank; theme practice and local-review games do not participate. View Daily standings or turn sharing off without losing private results.

Content review

The expanded bank is reviewed by AI editors under the project owner’s instruction, with versioned questions, accepted aliases and estimated scores. It has not been validated by novice-player research. The original seven-question set has its separate human approval; older saved games keep their original questions and scores. See the project and review method.