About Trivia Mountain

What this is

Trivia Mountain is a daily quiz game. Every round is 15 multiple-choice questions arranged in ascending difficulty, worth progressively more as you climb — from 10 points at the bottom to 150 at the summit, for a perfect round of 500.

The twist is that wrong answers cost you. A miss subtracts exactly what a hit would have added, so guessing is never free. That one rule turns a straightforward quiz into a series of small decisions: is this worth answering, is it worth a skip, or is it time to bank what you have and walk away?

Why it exists

The idea was a daily quiz you can open and play immediately — no account, no install, no newsletter, no countdown. That is the whole brief: 15 questions, a score at the end, and a new set tomorrow. There is not even a start screen; the first question is on the page the moment it loads.

How the questions are made

A new set of 15 questions is generated and published automatically every day at approximately 04:00 UTC. Each set is written to a deliberate difficulty curve:

• Questions 1–5 should be gettable by most adults after a moment’s thought.
• Questions 6–8 want solid general knowledge — past the headline facts, but nothing niche.
• Questions 9–11 call for real depth in a subject rather than broad awareness.
• Questions 12–13 are genuinely difficult; outside your own field you are picking between two plausible answers.
• Question 14 is expert territory — a fact specialists know and few others do.
• Question 15 is built to defeat most players, while still being a fact worth knowing rather than arbitrary minutiae.

The same brief asks for topics to be spread across history, science, geography, sport, language, film, music, television, food and current events without leaning too heavily on any one of them, for all four options to be plausible, and for the wording never to hint at its own answer.

One part of the process is mechanical rather than advisory: the correct answers from the previous thirty sets are passed in as an exclusion list, so a subject that has come up in the last month should not come round again.

Sets are checked automatically for shape before publishing — the right number of questions, four distinct options each, a valid answer marked. Nothing checks whether the marked answer is actually right.

So everything else rests on the model following its brief. To be plain about what that means: there is no human fact-checker and no automated verification of the facts themselves. The results are good more often than not, but mistakes do get through. If you find one, say so and it will get fixed.

Accuracy and corrections

If a question looks factually wrong, ambiguous, or has more than one defensible answer, say so — at contact@triviamountain.com or through the contact page. It will get fixed.

Because the set turns over every day, a bad question also clears itself within a day. The report still matters, though: it is the only signal that shows where the brief needs tightening.

Who runs it

Trivia Mountain is built and maintained by one person as a side project. It is not a company and there is nothing else attached to it, which is why the game is deliberately small in scope.

Advertising

The game is free and there is no paid tier. Running costs will be covered by advertising shown alongside the content.

Advertising is not on the site yet. When it arrives it will come from third-party networks, it will be clearly distinguishable from the game itself, and it will have no influence over which questions appear or which answers are marked correct.

The privacy policy sets out what data is and is not collected, including how advertising cookies work and how to opt out of personalised ads.

Start climbing

New to the game? The how to play page covers the full rules, the scoring table and a worked example of when to walk away. Otherwise, today’s 15 questions are waiting.