Rank Rush
A board of everything goes up — chat claims from the pool, and the biggest pays the most
Category: Trivia · Players: free-for-all · Status: Beta
A whole category goes up at once — every US state, every chemical element, every Pixar film — ranked by an attribute nobody can see: first to join the Union, lowest atomic number, earliest released. Chat rapid-fires names. The first person to call a member claims it, it’s theirs for good, and it pays by where it sits in the hidden ordering: the top of every board is worth 100, the bottom almost nothing.
Nobody can end the round for everyone else. The board is a pool, not a ladder — claiming the biggest one is a great start, but there are dozens more on the board, and once the famous ones are gone the points live in the middle of the ordering. Knowing whether Ohio joined before Louisiana is where the game actually is.
Gameplay
The prompt and its attribute appear — “Rivers · longest in the world” — with a count of how many members are out there. The ordering itself stays hidden: you know the category, not where anything sits.
Type the name — no command needed. If it’s on the board and unclaimed, it’s yours: your claim lands on the chart with its rank, its points, and the figure behind it (“Nile · 6,650 km → 100”). If someone beat you to it, the feed says taken — you weren’t wrong, just slow. Misses cost nothing.
Spelling is forgiving the way the answer-matching games are, and people can be claimed by either name — “Olajuwon” and “LeBron” both work when they name exactly one member of the board. A surname two members share (“Adams” on the presidents board) is rejected, because the game can’t know which one you meant.
When the host closes the board (or the pool drains, or the optional timer fires), everything nobody claimed is revealed with its rank and value — “nobody grabbed Vermont, it was worth 28” is the payoff for watching past the end. Then the next board goes up.
Late joiners are welcome — a viewer’s first message joins them automatically, so anyone arriving mid-board can claim immediately.
The boards
The bank covers six topics — science, history, geography, language, culture, and sport — with boards like US Presidents by order of office, states by land area, Bond films by release, F1 champions by first title, and the Greek alphabet in order. Every board is at least twenty members deep, so the middle of the ordering is always contested, and no board repeats within a session.
Each claim reveals the real figure behind the ordering, so a round quietly teaches the list it’s asking about.
Configuration
| Option | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Topic | 🎲 Random — all topics · 🎬 Culture · 🌍 Geography · 🏛️ History · 🔤 Language · 🔬 Science · 🏟️ Sport | 🎲 Random |
| Boards | 1–5 | 3 |
| Seconds per board | No timer, or 20–240 | No timer |
By default there is no timer — a board drains at whatever pace the room has, and the host closes it with the Reveal button when the calls run dry. Set a fixed time only if you want the segment to have a hard length.
Layout
- Marquee — game title and a rotating how-to hint.
- Prompt — the category and its attribute, plus how many members are still unclaimed. A count, never the names — what’s left is the answer key.
- Claims chart — claimed members sorted by rank, each with its points, its value, and the avatar of whoever grabbed it. It reads as a chart filling itself in, not a chat log.
- Attempt feed — live calls as they land: claimed, taken, or a miss.
- Leaderboard — players ranked by total points across the session.
The game moves through Lobby → Claim → Revealed → Finished, once per board.
Scoring
- Points are linear in rank and normalised to the board: rank 1 pays 100 whatever the board’s size, and the bottom pays 1 — claiming the last of something is still a claim.
- Every claim is exclusive. First message to name it takes it.
- Claim as many as you like; there’s no cap and no elimination.
- Most points across all boards wins the session; ties are co-winners.