Guess the Gadget turns landmark hardware and fictional tech into one polished daily challenge. Solve early, score well, and compare your result with the rest of the GeekTechLive crowd.
Everyone gets the same puzzle each day. Fewer turns means a bigger score.
Use a display name so your score can land on the leaderboard.
Pick from six curated answers. Wrong picks lock out and reveal the next clue.
Every player gets the same daily puzzle. Start with the opening clue, choose from six possible answers, and reveal more information only when you need it.
Turn 1: Start with the opening clue and the full answer board.
Wrong pick: That answer is disabled and the next clue unlocks.
Turn limit: You get four turns total before the round ends.
Leaderboard: Faster solves rank higher and earn more points.
Guess the Gadget is built to feel competitive without feeling random. Rules are consistent, clue order is shared, and every completed puzzle exposes the sources behind the answer.
Each approved puzzle begins with a reviewed primary Wikipedia match and at least one corroborating backup source. The editorial workflow surfaces those links again on the result screen so players can follow the trail themselves.
Primary source: Exact or alias-exact Wikipedia match for the gadget being used.
Corroboration: A second source such as an official archive, museum, or strong reference site.
Human review: Candidates are researched automatically, then approved manually before scheduling.
GeekTechLive maintains a reviewed backlog of approved gadgets, schedules them into future dates, and publishes the live puzzle data to Supabase so the game and leaderboard stay in sync.
Research queue: Candidate gadgets are sourced, summarized, and matched with distractors.
Approval: A markdown review pass controls what becomes a live daily puzzle.
Publishing: Approved entries are pushed to the hosted database and shown on the site by date.
The leaderboard is designed around speed and accuracy. Solving with fewer turns keeps scores higher and moves you up the daily standings.
Best case: Solve on the first turn and bank the top score.
Pressure curve: Every wrong answer costs position because later turns are worth less.
Daily reset: A new puzzle day means a fresh leaderboard and a fresh chance to place.
Each day you get one gadget puzzle with six answer choices. Pick one answer per turn, reveal more clues after wrong guesses, and try to solve it in four turns or fewer.
Higher scores go to faster solves. The earlier you identify the correct gadget, the more points you earn and the higher you place on the daily leaderboard.
Every approved puzzle starts with a primary Wikipedia match and at least one corroborating source. Finished puzzle results show the attribution links used for the answer.
The editorial workflow generates and researches candidates, but a human approval step decides what gets scheduled and published into the daily game.
