Traps, Wildcards, and tribute: a field guide
Trap a tile, spring a Wildcard, split the stake. The redesigned trap economy explained, with the math for when a little betrayal pays.
Read postNotes from the board.
Launch news, changelogs, and strong opinions about trivia questions — from the team building trivai.
Designing a game's soundscape with AI-generated sound effects
Twenty-nine AI-generated sounds, a latency hunt in four acts, and one chime that had to die for sounding like a seatbelt sign.
The worst questions our pipeline ever wrote
A question that contained its own answer, a 100 that doubled as an insult — a tour of our finest failures and the rules they left behind.
36 trivia topics for your next game night
six ready-to-steal boards, six topics each — plus the anatomy of a topic that plays well, from crowd-pleaser to full nerd-snipe.
Gettable, not googleable: one topic, three tiers, real questions
one topic, three point tiers, real questions — where a 100 stops being admin, and why a fair 500 is hard without being homework.
How we fact-check a board in about a minute
Inside the minute between typing six topics and getting your board — a research library, six writers on deadline, and a reviewer who trusts nobody.
Why an AI judges your answer — and how we keep it fair
multiple choice is a recognition test. real trivia is recall — so we let you type anything, and a blind judge rules on it. here's how that stays fair.
trivai is live
Type any six topics and get a researched, fact-checked 36-question board in about a minute. Here's what we built, and where it goes next.
What makes a great trivia question?
What separates a question that makes the whole table lean in from one that feels like admin: the five-point anatomy we check every board against.
Enough reading. Play a board.
Type any six topics you actually care about and get a researched, fact-checked 36-question board in about a minute.
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