What is a least popular answer game?
A least popular answer game asks a question with many right answers and rewards you for giving the one that the fewest other players gave. Nobody Said That is our least popular answer game. Every day there are five "Name a…" prompts, such as "Name a country in Africa" or "Name a chemical element", the same for every player. Any correct answer counts, and your points depend on how many other people named the same thing today.
Name the answer everyone else named and you score close to nothing. Name one that nobody else thought of and you score the full 100. The rarity is not looked up in a database: it comes from the real answers of the people who played before you, so it changes through the day.
How to play the least popular answer game
- Press Play, then Start today's round. You get 5 prompts, one at a time.
- Type any correct answer within 30 seconds. Press Lock in or Enter. If your answer is not on our list for that prompt, you are told straight away and can try another before the clock runs out.
- See how many people said the same. After each prompt the game shows what share of other players gave your answer, your points, the answers said most so far, and how many accepted answers nobody has said yet.
- Skip if you are stuck. A skipped or timed-out prompt scores 0.
- Finish and come back later. Your total is out of 500. Because other people keep playing, tap Refresh scores later in the day to see where your answers settled.
Small typos are forgiven on longer answers, common alternative names are accepted (for example Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire, Holland or the Netherlands), and if a name is ambiguous, such as "Adams" for US presidents, the game asks you which one you mean.
How scoring works in Nobody Said That
Your points for a prompt are 100 minus the percentage of other players who gave the same answer.
| Other players who gave your answer | Points |
|---|---|
| None of them | 100 |
| 10% | 90 |
| 25% | 75 |
| 50% | 50 |
| All of them | 0 |
Only players who actually answered count; skips are left out. If you are the very first person to answer a prompt today, there is nobody to compare with yet, so you get 100 for now and the score is marked as early. This is the honest catch of any crowd-scored least popular answer game: the morning is a little easier than the evening.
A least popular answer game, not a rarest answer game
Rarest, the game on our Krillion guide page, and Krillion both decide how rare an answer is from data collected in advance. An answer has a fixed tier no matter who plays. In Nobody Said That there are no tiers: an answer is rare only if today's players did not say it. That makes it a guessing game about other people as much as about facts. Knowing an obscure answer helps, but so does guessing which obvious answers the crowd will pile onto. If you know the TV quiz Pointless, where answers score by how few of 100 people surveyed gave them, the idea is similar, except that here the survey is everyone playing today.
What the prompts cover
Every prompt has a closed list of answers that we checked, so a correct answer is never refused for being too obscure. The pool covers:
- Geography: US states and state capitals, countries in Africa, South America, Central America and Oceania, EU members and their capitals, countries bordering China, Germany or Russia, Canadian provinces, Australian states and more.
- Sports: teams in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL, and cities that have hosted the Summer Olympics.
- History: US presidents, the original 13 colonies and the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- Science: chemical elements, noble gases, planets and the Platonic solids.
- Words and culture: the NATO alphabet, Greek letters, zodiac signs, chess pieces and more.
The number of accepted answers is shown under each prompt, from 5 for the oceans to 118 for the chemical elements.
Tips for winning the least popular answer game
- Skip the first answer that comes to you. It is everyone's first answer too, and in a least popular answer game that is the one answer you want to avoid.
- Avoid the alphabet's first page. In list prompts, many players reach for the start of the list. Madagascar and Malawi go early in "starts with M"; Mozambique or Mauritania are less crowded.
- Small sets are traps. With only 7 continents or 5 oceans, every answer gets used. Pick the one people forget, not the one they love.
- Big sets are gifts. With 118 elements or 54 African countries, almost anything past the famous ten will score well.
- Answer before the clock runs out. A crowded answer still beats a skip.
Nobody Said That FAQ
What is a least popular answer game?
A trivia game where each question has many correct answers and you score more when fewer other players gave the same answer. Nobody Said That scores you against everyone who played the same prompts today.
How are points calculated?
For each prompt you get 100 minus the percentage of other players who gave the same answer. An answer nobody else gave scores 100; one that half the players gave scores 50.
Why did my score change later?
Because more people played after you. Your answer is compared with everyone who answers that prompt during the day, so tap Refresh scores to see the latest result.
What if I am the first to play?
There is nobody to compare with yet, so your answer scores 100 for now. It will be compared with later players when you refresh.
Why was my answer not accepted?
Each prompt has a checked list of correct answers. If yours is not on it, it may be spelled very differently or not fit the prompt; you can try another answer until the 30 seconds run out.
Can I play more than once a day?
No. There is one round a day, the same for everyone, because the scores depend on comparing players on the same prompts.
Is my answer public?
No. Answers are counted anonymously. Other players see only how many people gave each answer, never who gave it.
Who made Nobody Said That?
It was built by Daily Guessing Game for this site.