Trivia Quote: A Daily Word, Quote & Trivia Game

Trivia Quote is out and playable, on iOS and Android. It’s the first title from Clinkenbeard Games & Toys, my small games label, and it’s a daily habit-sized brain game: read a clue, pick the answer, and the faster you’re right, the more you score.

Get it: App Store · Google Play · games.cgandt.com/triviaquote

How it plays

Three modes, one fresh puzzle in each, every day:

• Words : a definition with four candidate words; pick the one it defines. Each word also carries a letter-based tile score, so rarer letters are worth more. (It’s a word game with a tile score — not affiliated with any other word/tile game.)
• Quotes : a quote from a public-domain source: guess who said it.
• Trivia : a general-knowledge question spanning science, history, art, music, and more.

Every question is timed and scored speed-first, so answering fast and correctly is worth more than answering slow. Each mode wraps its week with a themed quiz drawn from that week’s items, and the 1st of the month opens a free cross-mode “Month in Review” quiz built from the trickiest items of the previous month.

Streaks, quizzes, and a board to climb

Streaks are tracked per mode, and correctness only counts the days you actually played — missing a day never tanks your percentage. The main leaderboard is a monthly board with a per-mode split (Words / Quotes / Trivia) plus the combined ranking, and Clinkenbeard Games & Toys members get their own private group board.

Play well and you unlock hand-illustrated avatars — Cartographer Fox, Astronomer Owl, Poet Raven, and more — each tied to a milestone like a 7-day streak.

How it’s built

Trivia Quote is React Native on Expo, targeting Android and iOS from one codebase (web is a nice-to-have), with shared pure logic — scoring, timing, streaks — pulled into its own TypeScript /core package. The backend is Supabase: Postgres, Auth, and Edge Functions, with row-level security on every table so clients never write their own scores or entitlements. Timing is server-authoritative — the server issues a signed start token when a question opens and computes elapsed time on submit, so leaving the app to look something up only costs the speed bonus, and forged times get rejected.

The whole thing was built test-first: the scoring, timing, and entitlement logic in /core has exhaustive unit tests covering happy paths, timeouts, boundaries, and tampering, written before the implementation existed. No magic numbers either — every tunable (question time limit, speed-bonus curve, streak windows) is a named constant in one config module, not a number scattered through the code.

What’s next

Trivia Quote is in active development — paid tiers, an ad-supported free tier, monthly topic voting, and seasonal avatar drops are all on the roadmap. If you play it, I’d love to hear what you think.