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Game rules

How NextCall works

Every rule that decides a point, a deadline or a result is on this page, published before the questions it governs.

NextCall never awards money or prizes

You never pay to play, and nothing of value is ever awarded — not for a correct call, a streak, or first place.

Points and accuracy are a record, not currency. They cannot be exchanged, transferred or redeemed.

Free to play, with no money or prizes. Funded by display advertising. Nothing is bought or sold here.

Who can playThe minimum age, and the anonymous identity confirming it creates

NextCall is for adults at or above the minimum age in force where you are.

The minimum age
Policy configuration, not a number in this page, because it differs by jurisdiction. The eligibility page shows the figure that applies to you.
Confirming your age
Creates an anonymous identity on the server
Never asked for
An email, a name, a password, or a date of birth
Under the minimum
Read every question, result and source; answer nothing

A second identity gains you nothing, because nothing of value is ever awarded.

The daily setThree binary questions for each UTC game day

Three questions are published for each UTC game day, and every one is binary.

Each question
Two answers, exactly one of which will be true once the outcome is observable
How many to answer
All three, or only the ones you have a view on
Printed on the card
Its category, its deadline, the rule that resolves it, and the source that rule reads
Published
All four before you answer, never after

Content policy

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Weather
In scope
Space and science
In scope
Scheduled technology and culture events
In scope
Financial instruments and prices
Out of scopeNever published as a question
Elections and public office
Out of scope
Sports
Out of scope
Health, crime, disaster and legal outcomes
Out of scope
Anything about a private individual
Out of scopeNever published as a question
Deadlines and revisionsThe server clock decides, and you can revise until it does

Every question prints its own deadline, stamped in UTC — for example Locks 23:59 UTC.

The deciding clock
The server's. A device clock set far ahead or far behind changes nothing
An answer at or after it
Rejected. Whatever was already on record stands
Until the deadline
Change your answer as often as you like
Each change
Appended to your history rather than replacing it, so both readings stay
After the fact
Nothing is rewritten
Scoring100 points for a correct call, 0 for an incorrect one

Scoring policy

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Correct call
100 points
Incorrect call
0 points
Voided question
No scoreExcluded from points and from your accuracy
Question you did not answer
No scoreExcluded from your accuracy
Accuracy
accuracy = correct / resolved answered calls — voided questions and questions you did not answer are excluded.
Your daily score
The sum of the points from that UTC game day
The policy
Versioned, so an old score can always be recomputed under the one that produced it
Not available at any price
Multipliers, confidence bonuses, purchases, or anything an advertisement can change
Resolution and evidenceA named source, attached evidence, and two people

The rule comes first: nobody can move the target after you answer.

Before a question opens
A plain-language resolution rule, a named primary source, and its void criteria
Once it closes
A resolver reads the declared source and attaches the evidence
The evidence
What was observed, where it was published, and when it was captured
Bound to
The exact version of the question you answered
Approval
One person proposes the resolution; a different person approves it
An ambiguous, late or silent source
The question stays pending or is voided. An outcome is never guessed
A pending result
Says so plainly, rather than showing a placeholder answer
A correction
Creates a new resolution version and a new score version
Earlier scores
Marked superseded rather than erased; leaderboards rebuild from the active scores
If it touches your call
A correction notice in the product names what changed, and when
Voided questionsVoid criteria published in advance, and what a void leaves

Every question publishes its void criteria next to its resolution rule.

What you know in advance
Exactly what would make this question unanswerable
For example
A station that never publishes its daily figure; an event postponed past its window; a source that contradicts itself
A voided question
Scores nothing
Your points and accuracy
Both exclude it. Your record is exactly as it was
Your participation streak
Unbroken, for a player who answered in good faith
The reason for the void
Published with it
Leaderboards and streaksDense ranking, and what a streak actually measures

Leaderboards cover the game day, the configured UTC week and all time.

Ranking
Dense: exact ties share a rank, and the rank after a tie is not skipped
Weekly and all-time
Need a minimum number of resolved calls, so a single lucky day cannot top the table
A participation streak
Counts the days you answered at least one question. It measures showing up, not accuracy
Protecting a streak
There is nothing to buy, and nothing is said to shame you when one ends
Absent from public rows
Profiles that are restricted, deleted, or opted out
Produced by a leaderboard, a streak or a badge
Nothing of value, at any point
What NextCall is notNot a market, not a financial product

NextCall is not a prediction market and not a financial product.

Bought, sold, exchanged or risked
Nothing, in either direction
Points
Have no monetary value, cannot be transferred, and cannot be redeemed
Never the subject of a question
A market price, or an advertiser
An advertiser's influence on a resolution
None
What you are playing for
A record of how often you called an outcome correctly
AdvertisingLabelled slots that never gate a question or a result

Display advertising pays for the game, which is how it stays free.

Every ad slot
Labelled as an advertisement
Reserved space
Held, so the page never jumps
Placement
Well away from the answer controls
Gating a question, an answer or a result
An advertisement never does
If a slot does not fill
It collapses, and play continues
An advertiser's say
None, in which questions publish, how they resolve, or who ranks where
Your record and your dataExport, deletion, and what a share card shows

Your identity starts anonymous, and linking an email is optional.

Why link one
To carry your record to a second device. Your existing calls stay attached to you
Export or deletion
Request either at any time from privacy choices. Neither stops you answering today's questions while it is processed.
Consent choices
Live in settings.
A share card shows
A date, a correct count, a total, points and a streak
A share card never shows
An email, an internal ID, a location, an age, or any answer before its deadline

Read the rules in action

An open question shows its rule and its source before you answer. A resolved one shows the evidence.