Show HN: OutClocked, a nearly impossible daily trivia game
This is a time-based trivia game with a bit of a twist. 7 questions. 60 seconds to answer the first. 0.94 seconds to answer the last. If you get any question wrong or let the timer expire you're out for that game.
Let's also get this out of the way: I used Claude Code to build this game. The first version took a couple of hours and in total I've spent about 10 hours tweaking and improving it. Happy to talk about that!
The stack is simple: one Cloudflare Worker and D1 (SQLite), plain JS, no framework
If you're a Soundgarden fan you already know what inspired the name of the game, the song Outshined.
What inspired me to create the game is I love trivia (even though I'm not great at it) and a friend of mine built a nearly impossible game completely different to this. That got me thinking what kind of nearly impossible trivia game I could make.
So far 92% of players fail, which makes me think I should make question #7 more difficult because 8% are getting all 7 questions correct.
Totals since launch (not including my own playing/testing):
- 651 games played - 178 (26%) out on the first question - 54 (8%) got 7/7 correct
I've had feedback that has run the gamut from "I hate time games" to "This is so fun!" so I don't even know what to think about feedback anymore. Happy to hear yours!