Credits

Each pack is adapted from its own sources. Where a source's licence asks for it (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, CC BY-SA), our questions are shared under the same licence. After each round, the reveal links to the page the question came from. Thanks to everyone who writes and maintains these sources.

• World of Warcraft

  Adapted from warcraft.wiki.gg (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are drafted by a large language model (LLM) from the sources’ text, then checked automatically against that text.

  A person has reviewed all 65 questions.

• BAIS

  Adapted from counterstrike.fandom.com (CC BY-SA 3.0) and en.wikipedia.org (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are drafted by a large language model (LLM) from the sources’ text, then checked automatically against that text.

  A person has reviewed all 120 questions.

• Gaming

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0), wikidata.org (CC0 1.0), en.wikipedia.org (CC BY-SA 4.0) and commons.wikimedia.org (Various free licences (see each picture's credit)).

  Its questions are drafted by a large language model (LLM) from the sources’ text, then checked automatically against that text, built by templates from structured facts (release years, studios, series, characters); where the facts are wrong or give no clue a casual player would get, the clue is rewritten with an AI assistant and checked against Wikipedia and multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed 1,040 of its 1,078 questions; the rest are drafts that passed the automatic checks.

• League of Legends

  Adapted from leagueoflegends.com (© Riot Games) and leagueoflegends.fandom.com (CC BY-SA 3.0).

  Its questions are drafted by a large language model (LLM) from the sources’ text, then checked automatically against that text and built by templates from structured facts (release years, studios, series, characters); where the facts are wrong or give no clue a casual player would get, the clue is rewritten with an AI assistant and checked against Wikipedia.

  A person has reviewed 77 of its 1,335 questions; the rest are drafts that passed the automatic checks.

• Anime, cartoons & comics

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 208 questions.

• Books, art & myths

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 188 questions.

• Film & TV

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 323 questions.

• General knowledge

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 234 questions.

• Geography

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 225 questions.

• History & politics

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 252 questions.

• Music

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 308 questions.

• Name that song

  Adapted from deezer.com (Deezer API previews).

  Its questions are built by templates from structured facts (release years, studios, series, characters); where the facts are wrong or give no clue a casual player would get, the clue is rewritten with an AI assistant and checked against Wikipedia.

  A person has reviewed all 325 questions.

• Science & nature

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 369 questions.

• Sports & games

  Adapted from opentdb.com (CC BY-SA 4.0).

  Its questions are multiple-choice questions taken from the source and played as free text; an LLM writes the hint shown before the options and the accepted spellings, and a second pass checks every question.

  A person has reviewed all 168 questions.

1. We pick well-known entries from each source: wiki pages, Wikidata items, a game's own data files, or the questions of an open quiz database.
2. Drafted packs: a large language model (LLM) reads the source text and drafts a question: three clues, hardest first, plus a fun fact for the reveal. It paraphrases; it doesn't copy. A second pass checks every clue against the source and that only one answer fits.
3. Built packs: templates turn structured facts (release year, studio, series, characters) into clues, with no LLM drafting them. Where the facts are wrong or give no clue a casual player would get (most often the easiest clue), the clue is rewritten with an AI assistant and checked against Wikipedia.
4. Quiz packs: multiple-choice questions come from the source, and you type the answer instead of picking it. An LLM writes a hint for each question and lists the spellings we accept. A second pass checks every question and hint, and repairs or drops questions that are wrong, outdated or have two answers.
5. A validator catches clues that give the answer away and alternative answers that clash.
6. A person reviews a random sample of every batch plus everything the checks flagged. Questions that haven't been reviewed yet are drafts, and each pack above says how many it has.

Our scripts read sources through their public APIs, one request at a time, with an identifying user agent. No model is trained or fine-tuned on their text.

Games compares release years, genres, platforms, studios, series and countries from Wikidata (CC0), grouped into broad families by us.

Champions uses region, class, resource, range and release dates from Riot Games' public Data Dragon and Universe data, under Riot's Legal Jibber Jabber policy. The damage type is our reading of Riot's own attack and magic ratings.

We count page views and a few game events (a run or a Hinkdle finished, a room created) with Vercel Web Analytics: no cookies, nothing that identifies you. Your name and results are only stored to put you on the boards.

HinkenQuiz is a fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by any game publisher. Game titles, characters and company names belong to their owners. HinkenQuiz uses text clues only: no game art, screenshots or logos.

World of Warcraft: World of Warcraft, Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. HinkenQuiz is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.

BAIS: Counter-Strike and Valve are trademarks or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation. HinkenQuiz is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation.

League of Legends: HinkenQuiz isn't endorsed by Riot Games and doesn't reflect the views or opinions of Riot Games or anyone officially involved in producing or managing Riot Games properties. Riot Games, and all associated properties are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riot Games, Inc.

Name that song: Song previews are streamed from Deezer. Songs and recordings belong to their artists and labels.

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• Geist and Geist Mono by Vercel, for everything else.

All three are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and served from this site.