Six open questions, and the odd answer wins
Six open questions, 25 seconds each, and a score that pays for the answer nobody else thought of. After every prompt a tractor beam lifts your loot, sized to the rarity of what you typed.
An open question has no single correct reply, which is why the same obvious one forms in everyone's head at the same moment.
Clueffy treats that shared instinct as the obstacle. Any sensible answer is accepted, and the score turns on how few people typed the same thing.
One number decides what an answer is worth: the share of today's players who gave the same one. More than a third of the room puts you at the bottom of the scale. Fewer than one in two hundred reaches the full 500. Four tiers sit between those ends, so a word that scored well in the morning can be worth little by evening.
The moment a prompt appears, most players reach for the same reply, because it takes no effort to find. The game accepts it and pays almost nothing. Value hides in the second and third ideas, which still answer the prompt but did not surface for everyone. Judging what is ordinary enough to count and odd enough to stay rare is the skill.
A number is easy to shrug off, so the game gives it a shape. After each answer a beam drops from the saucer and hoists something off the ground. A common reply lifts a rubber duck; a rare one takes a bicycle or a whole tractor. The object tells you how the round went before the total appears.
The saucer travels east as the score climbs, and where it stops decides what the cadet carries home. A low total ends at a moonlit farm with a lonely sock; better runs reach a gnome, a shopping cart, an ice cream van, a lighthouse and a Ferris wheel. The giant donut waits at 2,600, and a secret souvenir needs 2,400 plus a rare bonus answer.
The daily mission is one run of the same six prompts for everybody, which is the only reason a rare answer means the same to two people. That shared set keeps totals comparable. Fresh questions are dealt on demand, and the archive holds earlier missions, so the game does not end when today's does.
Six prompts, a clock, and a scoring rule you cannot look up.
The countdown waits three seconds after the prompt appears, so there is time to read it before the clock moves. A prompt that times out is lost; the run continues.
Answers are typed in English and sent with Enter or the beam button. A near-miss spelling is questioned before it leaves, so a typo does not waste the round.
Each accepted answer lands in a tier between 10 and 500 points, chosen by the share of players who matched it. Nothing about the answer itself changes the tier, only how many people gave it.
The score out of 3,000 maps to one of eight keepsakes. A hidden ninth needs a strong total and a bonus prompt answered rarely, which is the part most players never see.
The archive keeps past daily runs playable, so a missed day is not a lost day. Unlimited rounds deal new prompts without touching the score already banked for today.
Three actions and a total, about two minutes in all.
The cadet's saucer settles over a farm at night and the first prompt appears. Read it during the three-second pause before the clock starts.
Type the reply you believe is both valid and uncommon, then beam it. Skip passes a prompt; a rejected answer costs nothing but the time spent typing.
The object under the beam tells you how rare that answer was. After the sixth prompt the total out of 3,000 decides which souvenir flies home.
Three habits from people who open the mission most days.
I say my first answer out loud, then delete it and type the second. Skipping the obvious reply is the entire game for me.
We pass one phone around the table and read each prompt aloud. Half the fun is hearing which safe answer everyone nearly typed.
I stopped chasing 3,000 and started aiming for the bonus prompt. Clearing 2,400 is the easy half; keeping the answer rare is the rest.
The rule, the scoring, and the parts that surprise new players.
One reply per prompt, nothing lost for a miss, and a total that depends on how oddly you think.
Start the daily mission