The Hunter's Trivia Gauntlet

How the daily round works

No server picks the questions. Today's date is turned into a number, that number seeds a shuffle, and the shuffle picks five questions out of a bank of sixty — so every browser that opens this page today draws the identical five, in the identical order, with the options in the identical places. Tomorrow's date produces a different draw, and yesterday's still produces yesterday's. No answer of yours is stored or requested, and there is nothing in the draw that can go down.

Why the round gets harder as it goes

The bank is graded rather than shuffled flat. Twenty questions are easy — the kind anybody who has watched a season will have; twenty are medium, for a viewer who was paying attention; and twenty are hard, aimed at somebody on their fourth rewatch. A day's round always takes two easy, then two medium, then one hard, so it ramps instead of landing wherever the shuffle felt like. The band each question came from is printed beside it while you answer and again in the review, which means the claim on this page is one you can check rather than one you have to take.

The five also come from five different subjects out of six — monsters and what actually ends them, demons and the objects hunters carry, angels and higher beings, the Winchesters and the people around them, the long mythology arcs, and the series itself as a piece of television. A flat bank produces the occasional run of five monster questions, and a trivia round that keeps asking the same kind of thing is one people finish once.

The day rolls over at midnight UTC, not at your local midnight. That is deliberate: local midnight would hand somebody in Auckland a different gauntlet from somebody in Los Angeles for most of the day, and the whole point of a daily is that you and the hunters you argue with are looking at the same five questions.

Answer once, then find out why

Each question locks the moment you answer it — no clicking through the options until the right one lights up. The correct answer is marked, your pick is marked, and a line underneath explains why the answer is what it is: which method actually ends a given monster, what a warding sigil does and does not do, or which brother is standing where in the family tree. A quiz that only says "wrong" teaches nothing; a fact you have just been told is a fact you will repeat the next time somebody brings the show up.

Sharing a score without spoiling the gauntlet

Your score gets its own link. Open somebody else's link for today's gauntlet and you will see their score and nothing else — the five questions stay hidden, because a shared score that gives the answers away ruins the round for exactly the people it was meant to bring in. Once a gauntlet has rolled over, its link shows the full review instead: by then there is nothing left to protect.

What the questions cover

• Monsters, and what actually ends them — a werewolf, a vampire, a vengeful spirit, a Rugaru, a Wraith, a Djinn and the lamb's blood people forget, and at the hard end a Shtriga, a Vetala, the Mother of All and the sentence-long weapon that finally works on a Leviathan.
• Demons and the objects hunters carry — salt, holy water, the Devil's Trap, the Colt, the anti-possession tattoo, Purgatory, what the demon-killing knife costs that an exorcism does not, and who forged it.
• Angels and higher beings — angel blades and holy fire, true vessels, the Trickster's real name, the Enochian warding carved on somebody's ribs, and the rings that reopen a cage.
• The Winchesters and the people around them — the parents, the journal, the salvage yard, the Roadhouse, the half-brother nobody was told about, the hacker, and both of the Impala's licence plates.
• The long arcs — the nursery fire, the sixty-six seals and which one is last, the bunker, the Mark of Cain and what taking it off released, and how it all ends.
• The series itself — who made it, where it was shot, which network it moved to, why one season is short, and which spin-off is the one that actually got made.

Answers are checked against research notes written before the questions were, and a handful of famous "facts" were deliberately left out because the show never actually settles them — how many things the Colt cannot kill, for one. A question with a disputed answer is worse than no question at all.

This is fan-made, and unofficial

More diversions

The Supernatural hub collects every quiz and tool in this wing, including the quizzes next door. The fan tributes hub has the rest of the corner, including the original Which Great House Are You? quiz. If you would rather play a game than answer questions about one, Iron Realms is free in the browser.