Watch the crowd climb.

Your First Five Minutes

If you have never played Noillirk and you want the short version before you read the long version, this is it. There are ten prompts. Each prompt names a category and gives you thirty seconds to type one answer that fits it. You are not trying to be right in the sense of being accurate; you are trying to be right in the sense of being what most people would say. That is the whole game, and everything below is a detail of it.

Minute one

Press the yellow button, and read the first prompt carefully. The category is the important part: "Name a capital city in Europe" and "Name a European capital that starts with a vowel" are different games, and the second one has a much smaller room. Before you type anything, spend two seconds asking yourself: what is the first thing that comes to mind when I read that category? Not the best answer, not the most impressive answer — the first one.

Minute two

Type it. Hit Go. Do not wait for the timer. The reveal will show you the top five of that prompt's board, and that is the single most useful piece of information you will get all day. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, Madrid for European capitals. Read it, notice whether you were on that list, and notice where.

Minutes three to six

Keep going at pace. The pattern that works is: read, first thought, type, submit, read the board, next prompt. The most common mistake at this stage is treating a later prompt as harder than it is and slowing down. Later prompts are worth more points, but they are not harder — the board is usually the same shape, and a prompt worth 400 points is still answered in four seconds with the most obvious answer in the category.

Minute seven

You are halfway. This is where most first-timers make their biggest mistake: they start reaching for a cleverer answer because they want to "earn" the points. Resist it. The band you are given is decided by the board, and the board is decided by what a hundred ordinary people would type. The clever answer is almost always a band or two lower than the obvious one, and the crowd follows the obvious one.

Minute eight

Questions six to eight are the ×3 ones, and question nine and ten are ×4. This is where a single good answer changes the run. A #1 Answer on question nine is 400 points, which pulls sixteen figurines, which is a sixth of the entire crowd arriving at your tile in one step. If there is one prompt in the day where you should be completely certain of the most obvious answer, it is one of the last three.

Minute nine

The tenth prompt. Same routine. Whatever you have written down, submit it, and then read the result card properly rather than skipping to the number. The result card shows your figurine count, your title, and your three best and three worst prompts. The best and worst ones are the lesson: they tell you which categories you read well and which ones you are still guessing at.

Minute ten

You are done, and you are faster than you thought. Tap Share & challenge if you want to send the run to someone, and then stop. The next Daily arrives at midnight, the streak increments by one, and the whole thing takes five minutes. That is the deal: a small daily pleasure, a streak that never punishes you for missing a day, and a score that is decided by how well you read people rather than by how much you have memorised.

That is the entire game. Everything else in this guide is the reasoning underneath those ten minutes, and you can read it in whatever order suits you — the scoring in detail, the strategy, the boards, the crowd, the streaks, the prompt bank, the design, the glossary, the community, playing on a phone, and what to do when something goes wrong.

How to Play Noillirk: A Friendly Walk-Through

Noillirk is a daily web game you play in any modern browser on a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer. There's no install, no signup and no paywall. The whole thing lives in one tab, and a Daily takes at most five minutes from start to finish. The rules are short, the pacing is generous and the vibe is closer to reading a room than collecting trivia facts.

Every Noillirk Daily is ten prompts, and each prompt gives you thirty seconds. A prompt names a category — say "Name a capital city in Europe" or "Name a Pixar film" — and your job is to type a single answer that fits. The clock starts the moment the prompt appears, and a thin warm bar along the bottom of the answer card shows how much time is left. You can submit early with Enter or the on-screen Go button, you can skip with the Skip button, or you can wait the timer out. Any accepted answer scores something, so a quick guess is never wasted.

The first thing to notice is that almost every prompt has many right answers. That's the trick: Noillirk accepts most sensible responses in a category, so the question isn't "do you know the answer", it's "do you know the answer most people would give first?" Every prompt has a top-five board prepared in advance, which is the list of the five answers the Noillirk team expects most people to type, and your small raspberry figurine will land somewhere on the table based on where your guess sits on that board.

The ten steps of a typical round

A Noillirk round is the same ten beats every time. Here they are in order, so you know what to expect on your first go.

1. Press the big marigold "Play today's 10" button on the start screen.
2. The first prompt appears above the answer card. Read it, type your answer, press Go or hit Enter.
3. The board animates: your figurine hops to your chosen tile, the tile's score number rises, and the figurine count on it ticks up by however many people would have said the same thing.
4. The reveal lasts a few seconds. You can tap the table to speed it up.
5. The next prompt loads. The same step plays out, again and again, ten times in total.
6. After all ten prompts, you'll see a result card: how many of the hundred you pulled, a title based on how you played, and the Share & challenge options.
7. Tap "Share & challenge" to copy a short text summary and grab one of the share cards.
8. The Daily is now marked done for your local date, and your streak increments by one.
9. Tomorrow at midnight (your local time), a fresh set of ten prompts unlocks.
10. If you miss a day, the streak resets to zero — but your previous results in this browser still appear in the archive.

What happens to your answers

Your answers are stored in this browser, on your own device. Noillirk does not ask you to make an account, and it does not upload your answers to a server to keep them. Your progress, your streak counter, your language choice and your Unlimited session totals live in localStorage. That means: if you switch browsers, clear this site's data, or come back from a different device, that progress belongs to the place you played and does not follow you around. If you want to play against a friend who lives across the world, the share cards and challenge links are the way to send your run there.

For the Daily, that's all you need: ten prompts, your answers, a single daily result. For Unlimited, the game keeps a longer-running session count — how many runs you've taken, how many perfect rounds you've cleared — also on your own device. The game sends a small number of anonymous page-load events to a self-hosted Plausible analytics endpoint so the team can see which prompts are working, but no answers, no nicknames and no identifiers ever leave your browser.

The two stages: Sky Climb and Tabletop

You can switch between two stages with a small toggle on the start screen. The default is Sky Climb, which is the easier-to-read shape on a phone: instead of dots walking across a table, you watch a tiny krill — the small mascot of the game — rise on three balloons, one for each point milestone. The mechanics are exactly the same — same prompts, same board, same points, same bands — only the presentation is different. Tabletop shows the full crowd walking across the table toward your tile, which is the prettiest view on a wider screen.

If you're playing on a desktop or a laptop, Tabletop is the prettiest. On a phone in portrait, Sky Climb keeps the answer box and the on-screen keyboard out of each other's way for the full round. Try both and stick with the one you like; you can swap any time before you press Play, and the game's challenge links remember your choice so that your friend sees the same stage you saw.

What if the clock runs out?

You'll see the time-out card with a small "no answer this round" message, your streak stays where it is, and the next prompt loads. Skipping a prompt (with the on-screen Skip button) does the same thing and never costs you anything beyond the lost base points. The Daily never throws a wrong answer at you — there is no such thing as a wrong answer in Noillirk — only an Off the Board answer that scores 10 points, or no answer at all, which scores zero. There's no penalty for trying, and there's no shame in missing a day.

Why mobile works so well

Mobile browsers were the second platform after desktop for the team, and the answer card is positioned to stay above the on-screen keyboard while you type. You can play a Daily on the bus, on a coffee break or in the back of a long meeting, and the only thing you need is a finger and thirty seconds of free attention. If you add the page to your home screen from Safari or Chrome, it acts like a small app — the Noillirk logo, no address bar, full screen — and it will load right into today's prompts the next time you tap it.

That's the whole tour. Read the next section to learn what those 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100-point numbers mean, how the multiplier on questions three through ten works, and how a Daily can climb from a few hundred points to a perfect 2,500. The rules are short, the crowd is friendly, and the rest is just typing what comes to mind.

Scoring, Bands and Multipliers: How the Points Add Up

Most trivia games have one right answer and reward whoever finds it first. Noillirk is the opposite: most prompts accept many right answers, and the reward depends on where your answer sits on the prepared board for that prompt. The board is the team's best estimate, made in advance, of how 100 people would respond, ordered from most popular to tenth, and your place on it sets your band for that prompt. There are five bands, and each band has a base point value that combines with a question multiplier for the final score of that prompt.

The five bands and their base points

Every accepted answer lands on one of five bands. From top to bottom of the board, they are #1 Answer, Runner-up, Top 5, Top 10, and Off the Board. The point values are tuned so that the most common answer is worth ten times an Off the Board answer, and the in-between bands sit on a roughly geometric ladder.

• Off the Board — 10 points. Your answer is right, and it scores, but it didn't make the team's top ten. You're standing on a small tile of your own beside the table.
• Top 10 — 25 points. You made the team's top ten. Your tile is small but visible, and the figurine count rises a bit.
• Top 5 — 50 points. You're in the board's top five. The tile is clearly larger, and more figurines will walk to it.
• Runner-up — 75 points. You landed on the second or third most popular answer. The tile is busy.
• #1 Answer — 100 points. You hit the answer most people would give. The tile is the largest on the board, and the crowd thickens.

Question multipliers: x1 to x4 across the Daily

The base point is multiplied by the question's position in the Daily. The first two questions of the day are x1: their base points are exactly what they are. Questions three, four and five are x2. Questions six, seven and eight are x3. Questions nine and ten are x4. This means the late-game questions are where the day's score really climbs, and a single #1 Answer on question ten can be worth 400 points on its own.

The multiplier isn't a surprise: it's printed on the prompt card just above the question text, so you always know whether you're answering for the base or for a multiple. Multipliers exist so the late-game questions carry more weight without the bands needing to look imbalanced — the same #1 Answer is 100 points on question one and 400 points on question ten, but the visual ladder on the board is identical across all ten questions.

How figurines walk to your tile

Beyond the points, the reward you can see in Noillirk is the figurines themselves. There are 100 little wooden figurines on the table at the start of every run, and after each prompt a slice of them walks over to your home tile. The rule is simple: every 25 points in the round pulls one figurine to your tile, regardless of band. A prompt that scores 25 base points pulls one figurine; a prompt that scores 200 (a #1 Answer on x2) pulls eight; a prompt that scores 400 pulls sixteen. The figurine count on the tile tallies up like a ring counter.

At the end of a run the result card summarises: You pulled X of 100. A perfect Daily — ten #1 Answers — pulls all 100. A round with mostly Top 5 answers might pull 60. An Off the Board day might pull 20. The figures are how Noillirk knows who really read the room, and they're what the challenge board compares.

A worked example: a question-four answer on the board

Let's walk through a real example, since the numbers matter to the feel of the game. The prompt is "Name a capital city in Europe", and the team's pre-built board ranks the answers like this:

1. Paris — the #1 Answer. The team's estimate is that, out of 100 people asked, Paris is the most common. Base points: 100.
2. London — a Runner-up. Very common, second only to Paris. Base points: 75.
3. Rome — the other Runner-up. Third on the board. Base points: 75.
4. Berlin — Top 5. The German capital is up there, but less instinctive than Paris. Base points: 50.
5. Madrid — Top 5. Base points: 50.
6. ...and so on down the list, with answers like Amsterdam (Top 10, 25), Prague (Top 10, 25), Vienna (Top 10, 25), Lisbon (Top 10, 25).
7. Skopje — Off the Board. Right, but few people would say it. Base points: 10.

Now suppose this prompt is question four of the day, which carries a x2 multiplier. The score card on the reveal would show:

• If you typed Paris — 100 base × 2 = 200 points. You land on the busiest tile, and eight figurines walk across to join you.
• If you typed London — 75 base × 2 = 150 points. Six figurines walk over.
• If you typed Berlin — 50 base × 2 = 100 points. Four figurines walk over.
• If you typed Amsterdam — 25 base × 2 = 50 points. Two figurines walk over.
• If you typed Skopje — 10 base × 2 = 20 points. No figurines walk over (rounded down to 0; you need at least 25 to earn one).

Two things stand out: the #1 Answer is worth ten times the Off the Board answer, and the figurine count moves in increments of one (rounded down) because 25 points is the threshold. Length, spelling, capitalisation and cleverness don't matter — only how many people would say the same answer.

Edge cases: accepted answers, plurals and typos

Each prompt has a prepared list of accepted answers, with a small allowance for common variants, plurals, capitalisation and minor typos. "The Moon", "the moon", "Moon" and "Earth's moon" will all count as the same answer for most moon prompts. "Sushi" and "sushis" both count for a food-sushi prompt. "Toy Story" and "Toy Story (1995)" both count for a Pixar prompt. The game tries to lean toward accepting what you meant, because the lesson of a missed prompt is more interesting than the score on the missed prompt.

If you pass or run out of time, the result card has a small "Should this count? Tell us" button for answers you think we missed, and every guess the game turns down is logged anonymously so the team can add the ones that should count.

The end-of-run titles

A title summarises how the round went. From closer to #1 to further from the top, the six titles are:

• Mind Reader — three or more #1 Answers. You almost never missed the room.
• Hit or Miss — two or more #1 Answers alongside three or more Off the Board answers. You swung for the fences and sometimes connected.
• Crowd Whisperer — at least one #1 Answer and a strongly top-heavy run.
• Close Call — most of your answers sat in the upper Top 5 or Runner-up range.
• Own Lane — your answers went off-board a lot but pulled a respectable crowd.
• Free Thinker — you went your own way and Noillirk respected the effort.

The titles are more flavour than scoring; they appear on your share card and let your friend see how the round read at a glance. Two players who both pull 70 of 100 can end up with different titles, because a balanced day of Top 5 answers and a wild day of mostly Off the Board answers tell different stories.

The whole scoring system is a deliberate inversion of the trivia genre. Knowing a lot helps a lot, but thinking like everyone else wins. A player with a small but very mainstream vocabulary of facts can pull a full crowd just by saying the most obvious answer first. A player with deep trivia knowledge can pull a small crowd on a tougher prompt because they went for the precise answer instead of the common one. Either can be the right strategy on the day — it depends on the prompts and the company you're keeping.

Strategy: How to Read the Crowd

Noillirk rewards the answer that the most other people would give. That's not the same as the correct, the obscure or the clever answer — it's the one that comes to mind first when a hundred players see the same prompt. Reading that mind-set is the whole game, and it's a learnable skill, but the trick is that it isn't a single skill: it's three habits running together.

The first habit is to say your first thought. In most trivia games, thinking longer improves your answer. In Noillirk, thinking longer usually moves you down the board, because the first answer that comes to mind is also the first answer that comes to most other people's minds. The board ranks by what 100 people would type first, and your instinct is one of those hundred. If the prompt is "Name a Pixar film" and your first thought is Toy Story, that's probably the #1 Answer — type it. The extra second of pondering will only push you toward something more sophisticated.

The second habit is to reach for the most famous member of a category. The best-known member of a category is usually the #1 Answer, because fame is mostly correlated with frequency-of-thought. The Moon is the #1 Answer for a "moon in our solar system" prompt, even though dozens of moons are technically correct. Paris is the #1 Answer for a European capital prompt. Pizza is the #1 Answer for many Italian-food prompts. The famous one wins.

The third habit is to beat the clock. Thirty seconds go fast. Any accepted answer scores, so a quick guess is never wasted, while a perfect one still in your head when time runs out scores nothing. That's the most counter-intuitive part of Noillirk: the 25-point Top 10 answer you type in three seconds is worth more than the 100-point #1 Answer you hesitate on. After every guess the result card shows "Our board Paris, London, Rome, Berlin, Madrid (est.)", the board's top five, so each prompt teaches you where the room's mind went.

The four-stop ladder: from too clever to what everyone says

A useful mental model is to think of each prompt as a ladder with four stops, going from least-crowded to most-crowded. The stops are too clever, holiday favourites, big and famous and what everyone says. The #1 Answer almost always lives at stop four, the very bottom of the ladder where the obvious answer sits.

Take the prompt "Name a capital city in Europe" again. Here is the same example as a ladder:

• Stop one — too clever. Skopje, Vaduz, Andorra la Vella. Right, but barely anyone would say them. Off the Board.
• Stop two — holiday favourites. Prague, Amsterdam. Most people have been to one or seen it in a film, so they pop to mind easily. Top 10.
• Stop three — big and famous. Berlin, Madrid. Anyone could name them, but they're not the instinctive first city for most people. Top 5.
• Stop four — what everyone says. Paris (the #1 Answer), London, Rome. These are the capitals that everyone reaches for first. They pull the largest crowd by far.

Most prompts have a similar shape. For a "name a breed of dog" prompt, the ladder is something like Saluki (stop one, Off the Board), Corgi (stop two, Top 10), Golden Retriever (stop three, Top 5), Labrador (stop four, #1 Answer). For "name a Beatles song" the ladder is "I Am the Walrus" (stop one), "Let It Be" (stop two), "Hey Jude" (stop three), "Yesterday" or "Hey Jude" close together (stop four). Your job is to climb as far down the ladder as you can in the time you have.

The trap of "correct but obscure"

There's a single trap that catches every Noillirk newcomer, and it's worth naming plainly: the trap of correct-but-obscure. It happens because trivia training tells you that the more specific, more accurate, more clever your answer is, the better. In Noillirk, that's inverted. "The Moon" scores more than "Io" for a moon prompt. "Toy Story" scores more than "Ratatouille" for an early Pixar prompt. "Pizza" scores more than "Risotto alla Milanese" for an Italian-food prompt.

When you catch yourself starting to type a more elaborate answer, swap it back to the most obvious one. Don't be the player who ended the round with seven Off the Board answers because they kept reaching for the deepest trivia answer instead of the most popular. The two habits — say your first thought and reach for the famous one — push back against the same trap from different angles.

Reading the prompt wording

The first hint of a prompt is the category wording itself. "Name a capital city in Europe" is an open prompt that accepts many right answers. "Name a capital city of an EU member state" is narrower and biases the board toward Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Rome and Madrid. "Name a capital city whose name begins with a vowel" is even narrower, and most players will land on a small, predictable list. When the prompt is narrow, the board compresses; when the prompt is broad, the board spreads.

This matters because narrow prompts make the #1 Answer very predictable: there's usually one well-known member that fits the constraint, and a #1 Answer scores more in a narrow prompt than a broad one simply because the room has fewer options to choose between. Conversely, broad prompts spread the board across many plausible answers, which means even the Top 5 is contested — and a clever Top 10 answer is worth the same 25 points.

When to skip

Sometimes the clock ticks and you can't find a sensible answer. Noillirk accepts many answers, but if a prompt is too narrow, too local or too domain-specific for your taste, you can skip. A skipped prompt scores zero, but a generous skip at the start of a question saves your streak in the long run, because the prompts you're strong on are still ahead. (Note: skipping does not break a streak. Only missing the day's first prompt resets the streak, and only if it's already at zero by midnight.)

Practising in Unlimited

Noillirk Unlimited is the place to practise the strategy, because there's no daily cap and no morning deadline. Take a 10-prompt Unlimited run after a Daily to feel out prompts you missed. Take a 20-prompt run on a slow afternoon to bank three or four rounds in a row, and you'll see your title mix shift toward Mind Reader and Crowd Whisperer.

The strategy is small, simple, and it pays back fast: say the first answer that comes to mind, reach for the famous one, and submit before the 30 seconds are up. Three habits. That is most of the game.

Noillirk Unlimited and Challenge Links

Noillirk Unlimited is the same game as the Daily, with one big difference: there is no daily cap, no calendar, no streak to maintain, and no schedule. Press Play, take 10, 20 or endless prompts from the whole prompt bank, and stop whenever you like. Every Unlimited run counts toward its own session total in this browser, and you can also challenge a friend to play the same prompts so the two of you land on the same board.

If the Daily is your morning routine, Unlimited is your warm-up, your evening wind-down and the place to learn what each prompt's board feels like. The mechanics are identical to the Daily, with the same bands, the same multipliers and the same figurines walking to your tile — but without the midnight rollover and without the streak pressure, so the prompts become a workspace, not an event.

Choosing a session size

When you enter Unlimited, you pick a session size: 10, 20 or endless. Ten is the closest to a Daily, and it's a great warm-up for the day or a quick blast when you only have a couple of minutes. Twenty is the sweet spot for a focused session: long enough to feel out the prompt variety, short enough to keep your mind fresh to the end. Endless is for the day you're feeling it — pick up where a previous endless run ended, stop any time, and your progress and figurines persist across the runs.

There's no scoring penalty for ending an endless run early, and your figurines don't reset between sessions. If you pulled 14 last time and you pull 22 this time, your home tile carries 36 figurines across the two runs. (Note: the figurines in Unlimited are separate from the figurines you pull in a Daily, by design: the Daily has its own board to compare with friends, and Unlimited has its own pace.)

Why a challenge link exists

Guessing what most people say is more fun against someone you know. Every Daily share, and every share of a 10- or 20-prompt Unlimited run, carries a challenge link that opens at https://noillirk.com/c/<random-id>. When your friend opens the link, they play the exact same prompts in the exact same order. After they type each answer, your figurine shows up on your tile — the one you chose — so they can see where you landed before they decide their own answer.

The challenge link does not reveal the answer you'd already typed — that would be cheating — but it does reveal the band you landed in. So if your friend saw you pulled 8 figurines on question four because you typed Paris, they'll know you landed on the busy tile, and they can decide whether to chase Paris, too, or branch out and try for something different.

The challenge board

Everyone who plays a single challenge link lands on one shared board for that link. The board ranks players by how many figurines they pulled and then by points, and a percentile — for example, "Top 12% of all challenge-link players today" — sits next to your name. The board is small and friendly: most challenge links have somewhere between two and twenty players, depending on how much you share them.

When your friend then shares their result with their own link, their challenge brings new players to the same board, so a whole group can end up playing one challenge. It's an easy way to play with friends online: no account, just a random nickname like "Swift Otter" that you can change before you send. Noillirk generates nicknames automatically so you never have to choose one in a hurry, and the share sheet offers a quick customisation.

What does and doesn't get sent

To make the board and today's percentile work, Noillirk keeps each finished run for the lifetime of a challenge: your nickname, your answers, your score and a random id created in your browser. There is no account, no email, and no third-party tracker. The data is stored against the random id, and a random id is never linked back to a browser, a device or a person. When the challenge expires — usually a few weeks after the last prompt — the data is deleted from the server. Nothing is kept forever.

Plausible analytics (a small, self-hosted Plausible instance) sees anonymous page-load events: someone opened this page, someone clicked play, someone finished a run. Plausible doesn't see answers, nicknames, scores or challenge ids. The team uses that data only to know which prompts are working for players and which aren't.

Tips for a good challenge

The best challenges are short, focused, and easy to share. A 10-prompt Daily share is a great default — it's a complete round, it has a single board, and the share text is one line. A 20-prompt Unlimited run is for when you and your friend have a longer window. Endless runs work, but the share text gets long.

If you want your friend to play without revealing how you did, share the link first and ask them to play it before you share your result. The link is the same in both directions; only the result is asymmetric. That's the cleanest way to keep the game honest and the scores comparable.

Unlimited and challenge links together turn Noillirk from a solo puzzle into a small social game, with a single random link standing in for a multiplayer lobby. If you have a busy friend, send them a Daily challenge at the start of their day; if you have a friend online at the same time as you, race through 10 prompts and see whose figurine ends up with the larger crowd. The mechanics are the same; the company is what changes.

Sharing Your Run: Cards, Text and Challenge Links

At the end of every Noillirk run, the result card offers a Share & challenge button. Press it and the game prepares a short text summary, three ready-made share cards, and a challenge link you can send to a friend. The text doesn't reveal your answers, only the figurine count and the bands you landed in, so the Daily stays fair for anyone else who plays the same day.

The three default share cards

The three default share cards cover the most common ways people want to share a run. Each is a square image, designed to look right whether you're posting it on a chat app, a social feed or a Discord channel.

• You & the crowd — a top-down view of your tile packed with figurines, with your figurine count and your title overlaid. This is the "look how the room landed on me" card.
• Versus — two tiles side by side, one with your crowd and one with your friend's. The card is the cleanest way to communicate a challenge between two players.
• The moment — a friendly figurine stepping onto the largest tile, captioned with the day's largest #1 Answer. This is the card to post if you want to celebrate a single big moment rather than the whole round.

The share text alongside the cards

The share text is a small block designed to fit cleanly inside a single chat bubble. It looks something like this:

Noillirk Daily · 🧍38/100
⚪🔵🟣🔵🟠⚪🟣⚪⚪🟡
Close Call · day 12
noillirk.com/c/…

Each coloured circle in the second line is one prompt, with the band's colour filling the circle: tomato for #1 Answer, marigold for Runner-up, cobalt for Top 5, lavender for Top 10, and pale grey for Off the Board. The texts read the run at a glance, and they don't reveal your answers, only your bands. The third line carries your title and streak, and the last line is the challenge link.

The colours are deliberately accessible: even a colourblind reader can distinguish tomato from lavender by the lightness and the position in the row, and the layout works in greyscale if the colours fail. The team tested the cards in dark mode and light mode chat apps, and the design passes both without a separate variant.

Sharing with no spoilers

The team's biggest design choice on sharing is that the cards and the share text don't reveal your answers. They reveal your figurine count, your bands, your title and your streak, but not the actual words you typed. The reason is that the prompts of a Noillirk Daily are reused across many Dailies, and giving your friend a free answer would let them skip the prompt when it comes round again.

When you want to give someone a fully transparent share, the answer review link in the result card does reveal your answers — but only to people who already played the same challenge. The link includes a flag that says "answers visible", so the recipient knows in advance. Outside of that, the public text never spoils the prompt.

Sharing an Unlimited run

Sharing an Unlimited run works the same way as sharing a Daily, except the share text reads "Unlimited · 🧍X/100" instead of "Daily · 🧍X/100", and there is no streak. You can share a 10-prompt Unlimited, a 20-prompt Unlimited or a 100-prompt Unlimited — the share cards and the share text are the same shape, regardless of length.

If you want to share a run with a friend's specific challenge link, share the link, not the cards. The cards can be sent anywhere, but the challenge link only works for the friend you've challenged. The cards are general; the link is private.

Why share cards are square

Noillirk's share cards are squares because the chat apps and social feeds people share them on all support squares equally well. A square card renders fine on Instagram, X, Reddit, Discord, iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal without any cropping. The team tested other aspect ratios (16:9 horizontal, 9:16 vertical) and the square was the only one that survived all of them at full size.

If you want to share a card in a context that prefers another aspect ratio, the team has a small built-in cropper that lets you choose between square, 16:9 and the original card shape. The 16:9 version is a landscape crop that loses some of the tile detail, but it can be useful for YouTube thumbnails and Twitter cards. The 9:16 version is a vertical crop that loses the right-hand side of the board, but it works on Instagram Stories and TikTok.

What gets sent to the team

When you share a Noillirk run, no signals are sent to the team. Sharing is a purely client-side operation: the cards are generated on your device, the link is generated on your device, and the link is sent to your friend over whatever app you used. The team never sees the cards or the link unless your friend plays the challenge and the challenge registers as a finished run.

This is a small but deliberate choice: the team wanted sharing to feel private and inclusive, not tracked. The only thing that crosses to the team's servers is the finished-run data on the challenge board — your nickname, your answers, your score — and that data lives behind the challenge id, which is a random string of letters and numbers.

The Prompt Categories Noillirk Loves

Noillirk prompts come from everyday categories: places, food, music, books, sport, the human body, things you'd find in a house. Each one names a category in plain words and accepts a wide range of answers in that category. The trick of Noillirk is that the better-known members of any category are almost always the #1 Answer, so a player with general knowledge — but no trivia flexes — can pull a large crowd simply by reaching for the obvious member.

Below is a tour through the categories the team draws from most often, with examples of the kind of prompt you'd see and the kind of band the obvious answer would land in. The exact boards rotate weekly, but the shape of each category stays roughly the same, so this section doubles as a primer on what to expect when you open the morning's Daily.

Places — capitals, countries, cities, landmarks

Place prompts are the bread and butter of Noillirk. They include everything from "Name a capital city in Europe" to "Name a country in Africa" to "Name a famous landmark in Asia." The board for a place prompt is shaped by how broad the prompt is: a continent-level prompt spreads the board across many options, while a constraint like "begins with a vowel" or "island nation" narrows it to a small list.

The boards for capital-city prompts are usually won by the cities most people visited as children or saw in films. Paris, London, Rome, Tokyo, New York and Beijing are recurring #1s. Boards for country prompts usually have one or two uncontested leaders and a long tail: "Name a country in Africa" gives you Egypt and South Africa at the top, with dozens of plausible countries behind. The advice for a place prompt is to reach for the most famous member and let the board surprise you if it lands somewhere else.

Food — dishes, drinks, ingredients

Food prompts include cuisines ("Name a Japanese dish"), specific dishes ("Name a pasta"), drinks ("Name a type of tea"), and even flavours ("Name a sweet smell"). The boards here are unusually predictable, because food is a category everyone has strong first-instincts about. Sushi, Pizza, Tacos and Burger are nearly always #1 in their respective prompts. The Top 5 expands with regional variants and popular second choices, and the Off the Board answers are the ones you only think of when you're really hungry.

One tip: when a food prompt involves a less obvious category — say, "Name a type of mushroom" or "Name a Scandinavian spirit" — the board compresses toward fewer plausible answers. In those cases, the most famous member is even more dominant, and the figurine count is correspondingly dense on the #1 tile.

Music — songs, bands, genres, instruments

Music prompts include songs ("Name a Beatles song"), artists ("Name a 90s rock band"), genres ("Name a type of electronic music") and instruments ("Name a woodwind instrument"). The shape of the board depends on the prompt's specificity: a genre-level prompt has a clear leader with a long tail, while a song-level prompt is contested by songs with very high fame.

The boards for "famous song" prompts are interesting because the very top answers are usually songs from a different era than you'd expect. The #1 Answer for "Name a Beatles song" is often Hey Jude or Let It Be, not the band's deeper cuts. The #1 Answer for "Name a Queen song" is Bohemian Rhapsody. The team's editorial choice is to keep the boards trending toward the songs a casual listener would name first, which is what 100 people in a room would actually say.

Books, films, TV and games

Pop-culture prompts cover the rest of the cultural space. Books ("Name a classic novel"), films ("Name a Studio Ghibli film"), TV shows ("Name a sitcom that ran for ten seasons") and games ("Name a Nintendo franchise") all behave similarly to music prompts: the #1 Answer is a famous thing everyone has heard of, and the Off the Board answers are things you only know if you collect that category.

Animation prompts are particularly clean: Pixar films trend toward Toy Story as #1, Studio Ghibli films trend toward Spirited Away, and Disney films trend toward The Lion King. The boards are predictable, and the figurine count on the top answers is high. Bonus trivia: a handful of "Name a Pixar film" prompts appeared in earlier Dailies, and the team's prepared list covers most of the catalog.

Sport — athletes, teams, sports themselves

Sport prompts include individual athletes ("Name a famous tennis player"), teams ("Name an NBA team"), sports themselves ("Name an Olympic sport") and championships ("Name a Grand Slam tournament"). The boards for athlete prompts are dominated by global names — Federer, Messi, LeBron — while team prompts are dominated by teams with international followings, regardless of where you live.

Note that some sport prompts are deliberately narrow: "Name a Tour de France winner" or "Name a tennis player with more than 20 Grand Slam titles" produce boards where the room mostly agrees, and a #1 Answer is worth a very large crowd. Other sport prompts are broader, and the boards spread out accordingly.

People, body, daily life

A long tail of prompts covers people, body parts, daily life and so on: "Name a bone in the human body", "Name a profession that requires a uniform", "Name a thing you'd find in a kitchen drawer", "Name a direction on a compass", "Name a colour that goes well with red". These prompts are often the easiest of the day because the boards have a small number of obvious leaders.

The "Name a thing you'd find in a kitchen drawer" prompt, for example, has Fork, Spoon and Knife at the top of the board, with kitchen scissors and a bottle opener rounding out the Top 5. The Off the Board answers are the more specific tools — garlic press, lemon zester, strawberry huller — that fewer people think of first. The same pattern recurs across the daily-life prompts.

What categories get reused

The team rotates prompts across the categories roughly evenly, with a few clusters on culture-heavy days (a music + film + book combo, for instance) and a few lighter days with more body and daily-life prompts. Every prompt is on a board with a relatively long shelf life — a prompt with a strong board can appear in three or four Daily slots across a month, while a prompt with a weak board gets bumped down the queue.

What this means for a player: if you play the Daily every day, you'll start to notice the categories the team leans on, the shapes of their boards, and the kind of answer that always wins. Over time, your mental library of #1 Answers grows, and your title mix shifts toward Mind Reader and Crowd Whisperer. The practice isn't memorising answers — it's memorising the shape of how a hundred people talk.

Inside the Boards: How We Score Each Prompt

Every Noillirk prompt has a board attached to it, and that board is the single most important detail of the whole game. The board is the team's best estimate, prepared before the prompt goes live, of how a hundred people would respond if asked. The top of the board is the answer most people would give, then the runner-up, then down to the tenth. Your place on the board for your prompt sets your band for that prompt, and the band sets your points and your figurines.

Because the board is a forecast rather than a live count, the team's FAQ includes the qualifier "(est.)" beside it. The estimate is built from a mix of large-scale surveys, observed play patterns from previous Noillirk Dailies, and editorial sense. The numbers are good but they're not infallible; if a board undersells an answer, the team watches how often that answer actually appears and updates the board for the next time the prompt appears in the rotation.

Why the boards are prepared, not live

A "live" board — counting how other players answered today — would be more accurate than an estimate, but it would also ruin the game. Once a prompt is live, the count of every other player's answer is information that no real-world game of "guess what people say" would have. The prompt would be solved in real time, and the value of reading the room would disappear. By preparing the board in advance and freezing it at the moment the prompt goes live, Noillirk gives every player the same information, and the room stays imaginary in the right way.

Why the top five are revealed but the rest is hidden

After every answer you type, Noillirk shows you the top five of the prompt's board — the answers the team expects to be the most popular — so you can learn which way the room went. But the rest of the board, from sixth down to tenth, stays hidden. The reason is pacing: if you saw the full board every time, prompts you missed would feel like spoiled rehearsals when they came around again, and the Daily would lose its freshness.

The hidden six-to-ten also keeps the band thresholds stable. Off the Board is Off the Board regardless of whether the eleventh answer is one slot below the Top 10 or way below it: the answer wasn't in the team's predicted top ten, so it sits in the lowest band. This means a player who keeps typing unusual answers can still pull a 10-point base every prompt, and the bands remain cleanly comparable across prompts.

Why some answers are accepted and others aren't

Each prompt carries a prepared list of accepted answers in addition to the board. The board is the ranking of those accepted answers from most to least popular. The list is usually longer than the visible top five — it has to cover all the common variants, plurals, capitalisations, languages and even some near-misses. The list is what the answer checker compares your input against, with the small tolerance for typos and variations that we mentioned earlier.

The list isn't complete, and that's deliberate. A complete list would either be impossibly long or impossibly short, and either way would create edge cases. Instead the team keeps the list as long as it needs to be for each prompt and lets the "Tell us" button feed in. If your answer was reasonable and it didn't go through, you'll see a link in the result card; pressing it sends the team a non-identifying signal that the list needs to grow. The team watches the rate of these signals to decide which prompts need a refresh.

How a new prompt gets a board

When a new prompt enters the rotation, the board is built by hand. The team starts from a list of candidate answers — things the team expects a hundred people to type — and runs them through a small internal survey of testers, who answer without knowing the board. Each tester's answer is added to the list if it isn't already there, and the most common answers bubble to the top. The team trims the list down to the strongest ten and orders them. The list is then locked and shipped with the prompt.

The board is then frozen in place when the prompt goes live, and the team watches how it actually performs over the next few weeks. If an answer that wasn't on the board turns out to be more common than expected, the team adds it. If a board answer is consistently less popular than expected, it gets bumped down on the next rotation. This feedback loop means each prompt's board gets sharper over time, and the more the team hears from players via the "Tell us" button, the more accurate the boards become.

That's the whole story: boards are estimates, the estimates are built and refined by hand, and the team is open to signals from players. If you ever feel a board missed something obvious, the "Tell us" button is the route to making it better the next time around.

The Crowd: How Figurines Walk to Your Tile

The crowd is the most physical part of Noillirk. A run starts with a hundred little wooden figurines scattered around the table; after every prompt, a slice of them walks over to your tile and stays there with a coloured ring matching the band you landed in. By the end of the round your tile is the centre of a small crowd, and the figurine count on it is the number that defines the round.

The figurines are what the eye sees, and they're what the challenge board compares. But the points and the figurines are tightly linked: every 25 points in the round pulls one figurine to your tile, regardless of band. A prompt that scores 25 base points pulls one figurine. A prompt that scores 200 (a #1 Answer on x2) pulls eight. A prompt that scores 400 pulls sixteen. The figurine count on a single tile tallies up like a ring counter, and across the whole round the tile's count is your crowd.

Why the figurines matter beyond points

A perfect Daily — ten #1 Answers — pulls all 100 figurines to your tile, and a perfect round is identified by that figurine count rather than the points score. The reason is that points are tied to the question's multiplier, but figurines are tied to the total run. A perfect Unlimited run pulls all 100 figurines per round, and the round ends with a small medal next to your figurine count.

The figurine count also drives the share cards. After your run, the share text reads "You pulled 38 of 100" with a row of ten coloured circles (one per prompt) showing the band you landed in. Your friend sees the figurine count before they see the run, and that's the number they remember. The number is the headline of the round.

The colour and ring of each figurine

Every figurine that walks to your tile carries a coloured ring matching the band of the prompt that earned them. A figurine earned on a #1 Answer prompt carries a tomato ring (the band's colour), one earned on a Runner-up prompt carries a marigold ring, and so on down to the Off the Board's muted blue. The rings stay visible after the figurine joins the crowd, so at the end of a long round you can see how the crowd was assembled.

The rings are cosmetic — they don't affect the points — but they're a fun way to glance at the story of a round. A tile stacked with all-tomato rings is a clear "you read the room today" story; a tile peppered with blue rings shows the run had a lot of Off the Board answers; a tile with a mix of rings tells the more interesting middle-of-the-pack story.

How the figurines move on screen

The figurines walk one prompt at a time, in a small group, with a short delay before each batch moves. The visual cue is intentional: the prompt reveal lasts a few seconds and the figurines walking are a key part of that reveal. You can tap the table to fast-forward the animation, but the slower default speed is friendlier to slower devices and gives your eye a moment to register how the board is shifting.

In Tabletop mode the figurines walk across the wooden table from all sides toward your tile. In Sky Climb mode the figurines are replaced by a single krill (the small mascot) rising on three balloons, where each balloon represents one of the figurine count thresholds (25, 50, 75 figurines). The krill starts at 30 metres and rises as you earn figurines, eventually reaching 14.0 km at the perfect Daily mark.

What the crowd looks like at the end of a perfect run

A perfect run — ten #1 Answers across a Daily, or every prompt in an Unlimited session — pulls 100 figurines to your tile. Visually, the tile becomes a small crowd: a circle of figurines all standing around your raspberry figurine, with a thick ring of tomato colour from the #1 prompts. The pose is small and friendly, and it's the reward the team wanted the game to offer — a moment where the room has read you just as well as you've read it.

On the challenge board, your figurine count decides your place. Most rounds settle somewhere between 30 and 80 figurines, with the high scores pulling the largest share of the table. A player who consistently pulls 80+ is a Mind Reader; a player who bounces between 40 and 60 is a Crowd Whisperer; a player who lands around the 30 mark might be a Close Call or Own Lane.

The figurines are also the only thing the team remembers when looking at player data: an aggregate of figure counts across rounds gives a clearer read of how a player is doing than a raw points total, because the points depend on the day's multiplier mix. The figurine count isolates the skill of reading the room, which is the one thing Noillirk is built around.

What happens at the end of a round

When the last prompt's reveal finishes, the round ends with the result card. The card shows your figurine count, your title, your average band, your top three prompts (by figurine count) and your three weakest prompts. Sharing the card is straightforward — it has the share text and the share image ready to copy.

If you'd like to replay the round, you can scroll through the prompt-by-prompt recap, where each prompt's reveal animates again, the figurine count tallies, and your answer is shown next to the board's top five. The recap is the same view you saw during the round, slower and out of order, so it's a great way to learn which prompts cost you figurines.

That's the whole story of the crowd. A hundred figurines start on the table. Each prompt earns you a slice. The figurine count is the headline of the round. And the rings they wear tell the story of how the round went, one prompt at a time.

Titles, Streaks and the Perfect Round

The result card at the end of a Noillirk run shows two summary numbers: how many of the hundred figurines you pulled, and the title you earned for the round. The figurine count is straightforward — bigger is better, and the perfect round is 100. The title is a flavour number that summarises how you read the room, and the streaks layer on top of both.

The six titles, in order from top of the room to far from it

• Mind Reader — three or more #1 Answers. You almost never missed the room's most popular answer, and the rest of your answers landed in the Top 5 or Runner-up at worst.
• Hit or Miss — two or more #1 Answers alongside three or more Off the Board answers. You swung for the fences, sometimes connected, sometimes struck out. The round was a high-variance day.
• Crowd Whisperer — at least one #1 Answer and a strong upper-band presence overall. You read the room well; you didn't always hit the #1, but the Top 5 was yours most of the time.
• Close Call — most of your answers sat in the Top 5 or Runner-up range. You never quite hit a #1, but the figurine count was solid and the round was respectable.
• Own Lane — your answers went Off the Board more than once, but you still pulled a respectable figurine count. The round favoured a different kind of knowledge than the board rewarded, and you stayed in the game.
• Free Thinker — you went your own way and the board rewarded it less than usual. The figurine count is small but the day was yours.

What a perfect round actually looks like

A perfect Noillirk Daily is ten #1 Answers, one per prompt, with no skips and no time-outs. The figurine count is exactly 100, the title is Mind Reader (with a perfect-day flair on the result card), and the points total is 2,500 — the formula is 100 (x1) + 100 (x1) + 200 (x2) + 200 (x2) + 200 (x2) + 300 (x3) + 300 (x3) + 300 (x3) + 400 (x4) + 400 (x4) = 2,500. The Multiplier column matters: a clean run with all x4 questions answered correctly gives you 2,500 points; a cleaner-feeling run with fewer high-multiplier answers gives a lower total without changing the title.

The team doesn't expect most players to hit a perfect Daily. The figure count for a typical round is somewhere between 30 and 80, and a typical title is Crowd Whisperer or Close Call. A perfect round is the upper edge of the game's scoring, not its centre.

How streaks work in localStorage

Noillirk saves the date you last completed a Daily in this browser's localStorage. Each morning you finish a Daily, the streak counter increments by one. If the date in localStorage is yesterday's, the streak continues; if it's more than a day ago, the streak resets to one. The streak is per-browser, per-device: switching browsers, clearing this site's data, or using a private window doesn't carry the streak across.

The streak counter is shown on the start screen and inside the result card after a Daily, and it persists across the calendar day. If you start a Daily at 11pm and finish at 12:30am, you'll see the streak increment for the new day (since the localStorage date updates as soon as the round completes), but the prompts were the previous day's. If you don't want to play across midnight, the team recommends starting your Daily before 11:30pm, or accepting that finishing past midnight counts as the new day.

Streaks don't compound scoring

The streak counter is a motivation, not a score multiplier. There are no streak bonuses for the seventh day, no extra figurines for the thirtieth, and no reward for a year-long unbroken streak. The streak is a small badge that says you've played the Daily for that many days in a row, and that's all it is. The figurine count from a single round stays the same whether your streak is 0 or 365.

The team's rationale is that Noillirk is a small daily pleasure, not a grinding reward loop. A streak should feel like an accomplishment in itself, and combining it with a scoring bonus would tilt the game from a 5-minute coffee-break activity into something that feels more like a workout. The shorter the streak churn, the friendlier the game feels.

Sharing your title and streak

Every Daily share card carries the title and the figurine count; the share text reads "Noillirk Daily · 🧍38/100 · Close Call · day 12" or similar. The streak appears in the share text as a small "day N" suffix, but the full streak history is private to your browser. The team chose not to broadcast streak numbers as a leaderboard, because streaks are most satisfying when they're private milestones rather than public rankings.

The titles carry a small flair on the share cards. Mind Reader titles get a thin tomato border; Hit or Miss gets the same with a small dashed line through the middle; Crowd Whisperer gets a marigold border; the rest get quieter styling. The flair is purely cosmetic — your figurine count is the headline — but it gives a quick visual read of the room when comparing two runs.

What to do with a streak you've broken

If your streak resets, the result of the round that triggered the reset still counts: you still see your figurine count, your title, your points and the share cards. The streak counter rolls back to one, but nothing else is lost. The team's only message is: come back tomorrow, the next Daily is right there, and your reading-the-room skill doesn't depend on whether yesterday happened.

If you want to rebuild a broken streak quickly, Noillirk Unlimited is a good way to practise the room without the daily cap. You can take a 20-prompt run after a Daily to feel out prompts you missed, and your Unlimited progress is separate from your streak — so the streak won't reset if a single day's missed window is restored.

Tips from Frequent Noillirk Players

The Daily's design is simple but the room inside it is rich, and the fastest way to learn is from players who have run hundreds of rounds. Below are the most common tips that have come up in player forums, blog posts and the team's own Discord. None of them are rules — they're habits. Each one is a small change in how you read prompts, and many of them feel obvious in hindsight.

1. Say it before you second-guess it

The single most common piece of advice is to type your first thought. Almost every player who started Noillirk assumed the longer they thought, the better their answer would be. After a few rounds of watching their own Down-the-board pattern, they realised the opposite was true: their first instinct was almost always the team's #1 Answer, and every second of rethinking tended to push them down the board. The recommended pace is "type it as soon as you read it".

2. Look at the category wording, not the example

When a Noillirk prompt reads "Name a Pixar film", the example answers inside the prompt are off-stage — they're not visible. But the wording itself is a signal: broad category wording ("Name a Pixar film") tends to have a clear #1 Answer with a long Top 5; narrow category wording ("Name a Pixar film from the 2000s") tends to compress the board toward a smaller set of leaders. Read the wording out loud; it tells you how compressed the board will be.

3. Treat "tomorrow" as "this morning"

A surprising number of players forget that the Daily resets at midnight, their local time. The team sees a small spike of broken streaks every morning as a result — players who came back late after dinner and discovered their streak had already reset. The team recommends opening the Daily as the first thing in the morning or right after lunch, before the day's meetings and errands. If you only have one window for the day's ten prompts, the morning is the cleanest.

4. Use Unlimited to probe a category

Some categories — sport, music, the human body — have boards that are easier to predict than others. If you find a category where your reading is consistently off, take a 20-prompt Unlimited run focused on that category by selecting "Music" or "Sport" in the category filter. Twenty prompts is enough to feel the shape of the board, and your figurine count in those runs will quickly show you whether you're predicting the room or not.

5. Read the result card, not the recap

The end-of-run recap animates every prompt again, in sequence. Some players rely on the recap to learn which prompts they got wrong, but the recap is slow and easy to lose focus on. A faster method is to read the result card's small "our board: ..." line — that's the top five of the prompt, condensed into a single line — and to compare it with the answer you typed. The result card is more honest about what you got wrong and why.

6. The big moment is the x4

The last two prompts of the Daily are x4, and they are worth 400 points for a #1 Answer. Most players treat the early prompts as filler and ramp up only for the late ones, but the team sees the inverse pattern in their data: players who take the early prompts seriously perform better on average. The advice is to treat every prompt as if it were the x4 — say your first thought every time — and the late prompts will take care of themselves.

7. Don't get fancy with plurals and capitalisation

The accepted-answer list in Noillirk is lenient with plurals and capitalisation, so you don't need to think about whether to type "The Moon" or "Moon" or "Moons". Just type it as it comes to mind. The only case where capitalisation matters is with acronyms: "USA" and "U.S.A." and "United States of America" are usually all accepted, but "USA" with no periods sometimes fails an answer checker. If you're unsure, type the longer version.

8. Treat each prompt as a small crowd

The figurine count for a single prompt is the most informative number in the round. If a prompt pulled 16 figurines, the answer you typed was a #1 on a x4 — that's a big win. If a prompt pulled 2 figurines, the answer was a Top 10 on x1 — that's a small win. Looking at the figurine count prompt by prompt, instead of just the round total, is the cleanest way to find the categories and prompts where your reading is consistently off.

9. Take breaks on Unlimited

Endless Unlimited runs are fun, but the brain fatigues after 50-80 prompts. The team has done internal experiments, and fig counts plateau after about 60 prompts of play in a single session, regardless of how strong the player is. If you want to play multiple sessions in a day, take a 15-minute break between sessions — your figurine count on the second session will be noticeably higher than the end of the first session.

10. Don't chase the top — chase the room

The single biggest mindset shift in Noillirk is to stop trying to be clever and start trying to read the room. A player who is consistently in the Top 5 across prompts will pull a larger crowd than a player who chases the obscure answers. The room is a real thing — it consists of the 100 imaginary people the team's board is forecasting — and the room is generous if you listen to it. Don't out-think it; out-think-with-it.

11. Share early, share often

Sharing a Daily result is not just a vanity move — it's the cleanest way to discover new prompts and to find a friend to play with. The team has noticed that the highest-streak players share at least once every three Dailies, and many of them share the same friend repeatedly. The challenge links are private, so sharing them is not noisy; it just builds a small community of players who read the room together.

12. Use the "Should this count?" button when it's there

The result card has a small button that says "Should this count? Tell us" when an answer isn't accepted. Pressing it is the cleanest signal the team has for boards that need updating. Players who press the button contribute disproportionately to the boards' quality over time, and the team's board-quality metrics actually improve when a player uses the button aggressively. If you see it, press it.

These twelve tips are the habits the team's best players share. None of them are guarantees, and your mileage will vary by category and prompt, but most players find that adopting a few at a time leads to a measurable shift in their figurine counts within a week. The Daily is a small game; the room is the fun part; and the rest is just typing.

Technical Notes, Privacy and What's Next

Noillirk runs entirely in your browser. There's nothing to install, no plugin to enable, no special permissions to grant. The only data the game stores on your device is the few keys it uses to remember your progress: today's Daily completion date, your streak counter, your language preference, your stage choice (Sky Climb or Tabletop), and your Unlimited session totals. None of it is uploaded to the team's servers, and none of it is shared with third parties.

What's stored on your device

Specifically, Noillirk writes the following localStorage keys:

• rarely:daily:YYYY-MM-DD — a small record of the day you completed today's Daily, so the team can recognise "already done" the next time you visit.
• rarely:stage — your current stage (Sky Climb or Tabletop), remembered across sessions.
• rarely:lang — your language preference, picked from the five-language interface (English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese).
• rarely:unlimited:totals — your Unlimited session totals, including how many runs you've taken, your cumulative figurine count and your best run.
• rarely:streak — your current streak count and the date of your most recent Daily completion.

None of these keys contain answer content. None of them are personally identifiable. None of them are sent anywhere unless the user explicitly shares a challenge link. When you clear this site's data, all of these keys disappear, and your next visit starts with a clean slate.

Analytics: a self-hosted Plausible endpoint

The only third-party signal that crosses your device is a small page-load event sent to a self-hosted Plausible analytics instance. Plausible is a privacy-friendly analytics tool that doesn't use cookies, doesn't store IP addresses, and doesn't share data with advertisers. The team's instance lives behind the same end-point the team uses for other small projects. The event signal is anonymous — it doesn't include your answers, your nicknames or your scores — and it's only used to count how many people played a given Daily and which prompts were most clicked.

If you would prefer to disable Plausible, the team recommends an ad-blocker configured to block the analytics domain. The game continues to work fully without Plausible. The data the team gets from Plausible is the smallest possible signal it needs to understand which prompts are working for players.

What the team stores for challenges

The only data the team keeps on its servers is the data needed to run challenge boards. When you share a Daily or an Unlimited run, the server stores:

• The challenge id, a random short string like k7Qm2x9A.
• The list of prompts in the challenge, in order.
• For each player who plays the challenge: the random nickname they chose, their answers, their figurine count, the date they played, and a randomly-generated player id.
• The challenge board, which aggregates the player data into a single ranking.

The player id is a random string generated in your browser; it isn't tied to your IP, your user agent, your localStorage or your account. The nickname is the only thing that visibly identifies you on the board. None of the data leaves the team's challenge database, and the data is deleted when the challenge expires — usually a few weeks after the last prompt is finished. The team does not retain the data longer than is necessary for the challenge to work, and it does not use the data for any other purpose.

Where the game runs

The game itself is a small JavaScript application that runs entirely in your browser. The animated board, the answer card, the figurine animations, the share-card generator and the Unlimited session counter are all client-side. The game's hosting is a static web host, which means there is no application server running for the game's everyday play — only for the challenge board. The game's source is not open source today, but the team has discussed open-sourcing the front-end in the future.

The game's data is also small. The whole JavaScript bundle for the game is around 1.5 MB gzipped, including the assets for one stage. A full Tabletop session loads an additional 1.0 MB of figurines and tile art. A Daily loads only the assets it needs for the current day, so the day-to-day play bandwidth is well under one megabyte per session.

Things Noillirk doesn't have

Noillirk is intentionally minimal, so a handful of features that other daily games have are deliberately absent:

• No Google AdSense. Noillirk is supported by the team directly, not by display advertising. The game has no banner ads, no interstitial pop-ups, and no pre-roll video. There is an optional Adsterra Social Bar at the bottom of the page, which is non-intrusive, but the game itself is free of in-game ads.
• No accounts. Noillirk does not ask you to make an account. Your progress is on your device; your challenge identity is a random nickname; nothing is tied to your email.
• No paywalls or in-app purchases. Noillirk is free. Unlimited is free. The challenge board is free. The game has no upgrades to buy and no premium tier.
• No notifications. The game does not push notifications to your device, and it does not ask permission to. (You may get a small browser notification if you install the PWA, but you can disable that in your browser settings.)
• No third-party data sharing. Noillirk does not share data with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft or any third-party platform. The team has no integration with social media beyond the share cards you choose to send.

What's next for the team

The team is small — Noillirk is an independent game — and the roadmap is short. The team has discussed a handful of features for future months: more languages, more prompt categories, a small editor for players who want to submit prompts, and an open-sourced version of the front-end code. None of these are promised, and the team is intentional about not adding features that would bloat the Daily. The goal is to keep the game small, friendly, and quick to play.

That's the technical picture: a small client-side game, a tiny challenge database, an anonymous analytics endpoint, and a long list of things the game is not trying to be. If you have a question that isn't covered here, the contact form is the route to the team.

Closing: Ten Prompts, One Crowd

Noillirk is a small daily game built around one simple idea: the answer most people would give wins the most. That idea, stretched across ten prompts, a thirty-second clock per prompt, five point bands and a hundred little wooden figurines walking to your tile, becomes the game you just played.

If you've made it this far through the guide, you already know the rules, the bands, the multipliers, the figurines, the streak, the titles, the share cards, the challenge links, the privacy story, and the small list of things Noillirk isn't. The game is honest about what it does and what it doesn't do. There's no clever trap, no hidden mechanism; the goal is to read the room and pull the crowd home.

If you came for the Daily, play the first prompt today and see how the room reads. If you came for a quiet ritual, set a reminder and make the morning coffee a Daily habit. If you came for a friend, send them a challenge link today and watch what they read. If you came for the trivia, you'll find the trivia plenty — and you'll find a different trivia, one that pays you back for knowing what most people would say, not for knowing the deepest cut.

Noillirk is small on purpose, and it pays back small rewards generously. A perfect round is rare; a 50-figurine round is a normal day; a 30-figurine round is still fun. The streak counter is a small badge of consistency, not a competitive ladder. The challenge board is a friendly link between two players or twenty, not a global ranking. The titles are flavour, not achievement points.

If you have a friend to play with, send them a challenge link today. If you don't, the Daily still works on its own. The figurines walk to your tile regardless. The board is whatever you read into it. The game is what it is — and what it is, is a small daily pleasure, ten prompts at a time.

Ten prompts. Thirty seconds each. One crowd. That's all Noillirk is. Have fun.