About Longtail
A game about the answers nobody gives.
Name a country and most people say France. Longtail is built for the person who says Tuvalu: any right answer scores, and the fewer people who would think of yours, the more it is worth.
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Every question has a crowd, and a tail.
Ask a room to name a cheese and you get a pile-up on Cheddar and Brie, then a thinning trickle, then a long, quiet run of answers that only one person in the room knows: Bryndza, Caciocavallo, Tête de Moine. Statisticians call that shape a long-tailed distribution.
Ordinary quizzes only care whether you are right. Longtail cares where you are on that curve. Being right is the entry fee; going deep is the game.
The landscape is the data.
The night landscape behind the game is that curve made into a place. The crowded, glowing peak is where the obvious answers land. The tail running out to the horizon is where the rare ones live. Each round, the land reshapes itself to that list’s real popularity, and when you answer, your light flies out and lands where your answer sits.
164answer lists, from chemical elements to Shakespeare plays
29,475accepted answers, every one of them checkable
Nothing is made up.
Every list comes from Wikidata, the free knowledge base behind Wikipedia, and every round names its source. No answers are invented by hand or by AI, so a valid answer is one you can look up afterwards.
Popularity comes from how often each answer’s English Wikipedia article is read, measured through the Wikimedia API over the two months before each data build. The most-read answer in a list scores about 10; the least-read, up to 100.
No list is perfect. If a right answer was refused, it is usually because Wikidata files it differently: Tesla is a corporation there, not a car brand. Corrections are welcome.
No accounts. No trackers.
- No sign-up, no login, no ads.
- No cookies and no third-party scripts. Fonts, code and data are all served from this site.
- Your streak, stats and Cabinet live only in your own browser.
- Challenge links carry your six scores and scrambled answers, so a friend’s game can reveal them at the end, and nothing else but the display name you pick.