“Obvious?”
How a run works, what earns a medal, and what the hints do.
The run
“Obvious?” is a run of ten questions. Each has a few short answer choices, with only one correct answer.
Your first mistake ends the run.
After a wrong answer, you’ll see a short explanation of what the question was getting at. Answer correctly, and there’s no explanation — you simply move on.
The difficulty rises
A run goes from easy to hard. Every question is measured on its own, and a run is assembled so that its ten questions climb from the first to the last.
The start of a run
The easiest of the questions picked: you can usually rule out the wrong answers right away.
The middle
Plausible traps start to appear — answers that are easy to arrive at if you take the most direct line of reasoning.
The end of a run
The hardest: they require not just reasoning, but knowing a specific fact.
Medals
You get one medal per run — whichever one you reach. The medals stand where the difficulty steps up: after question three, after question seven, and at the end.
If you quit before the run is over, you won’t get a medal at all, but the run will still count toward your daily limit. A run you leave without answering a single question and without spending a hint does not count at all: it goes neither into the day’s runs nor into the record.
Bronze
The first three questions without a mistake.
Silver
Seven questions in a row.
Gold
All ten.
Hints
Each run gives you three hints, and you can use each one once.
Fifty-fifty
Leaves you with two choices: the correct answer and the toughest wrong one.
Second opinion
Shows its confidence across the available choices. It can be wrong, but the correct answer will always be among the two with the highest confidence.
Another question
Replaces the current question with a new one; the question you skip counts as neither answered nor missed. Sometimes it won’t be available, because there may be no unused questions left at your current level.
Timer
There’s no timer by default. You can turn it on to give yourself ten minutes for the entire run. If time runs out, the run ends.
This doesn’t affect your medal: anything you’ve already earned is yours. Your time is simply tracked and shown after the run.
How questions are picked
You won’t see two questions about the same thing in a single run, and a question from your last run will not come back in the next one.
Beyond that, what you get depends on what has already happened: first what you have never seen, then what you got wrong and have not yet covered with correct answers. What you have long been answering confidently shows up less and less.
The questions are written on all sorts of topics — among them these:
Your own head · Money · Risk · Negotiation · Data · Time · Teams · Order · Verification
Why it’s here
“Obvious?” doesn’t affect your portrait or your practice, and nothing here contributes to any assessment in the app. It’s simply a place to drop in for a quick test of yourself.
The number of runs per day is limited — it’s not something to track or a goal to hit. The limit is simply there to keep the exercise from turning into an endless feed.