BRAINWHIZ

Daily BrainWhiz

The Daily BrainWhiz is whoever did best across the daily brain games on a given day. It is not a game you can play on its own: it is worked out from the daily brain games, and the only way onto this page is to play them.

How Is the Daily BrainWhiz Decided?

Your place in each daily brain game is added up, and the lowest total wins. A game you did not play counts as one place worse than last in it, so skipping a game that forty people played costs far more than skipping one that four people played. That is deliberate: it is what makes playing every game the cheap option. A total that is too fast to be real does not get a place, the same as on each game's own leaderboard.

If two players tie on the total, the one who came first in more games takes it, and coming joint first counts. If they still tie, your place in Logic decides, and after that the name. There is no minimum number of games, so on a quiet day one strong result can still win.

When Does It Update?

Live, all day. Everyone's penalty moves as other people play, so you can take the lead hours after you finished, and lose it the same way. The day settles at midnight London time, and the winner is written into the list below the morning after.

What Is the BRAINWHIZ-GOAT?

The player who has won the most days since the board opened. It counts names, so a player who changes name starts a fresh tally.

Is It One Player or One Device?

One name. The same name on a phone and a laptop is one player and the games add up. Two different people who choose the same name are told apart as soon as they both play the same game: the second to finish gets an emoji added for the rest of that day. If they never meet on the same game they are counted as one, which is the trade for not making anyone sign up for anything.

The same daily whiz runs on the other Quizebra topics: the Daily GeoWhiz, the Daily FootyWhiz and the Daily ChessWhiz. Or go back to all brain games.