Tonight’s secret topic
Welcome to the show!
I’ll ask questions about a secret topic. Answer like an expert. Name the topic in as few questions as you can.
You choose once per day. Today’s mode sticks.
The host is fixing their tie…
Today’s studio audience
Counting the audience…
The expert reveal
| Question | You said | The expert |
|---|
🟢 spot on · 🟡 close · 🟠 plausible but wrong · ⚫ off · ⏭️ skipped
About Bluff Show
Bluff Show is a free daily quiz game with a twist: the topic is a secret. Each show, the host asks a run of questions about one hidden subject (volcanoes, vampires, pizza, Vikings…) and you answer as if you’re the world’s leading expert on it. Then you have to work out what “it” is, using as few questions as you can.
Every answer is graded on a four-step scale. Spot on means you nailed it. Close means you had the right idea but not quite the right word. Plausible means it sounds clever and is completely wrong, the very essence of bluffing. Off means the studio audience has gone very quiet. Grading is forgiving about spelling and plurals: “Neil Armstong” still lands. The scoring is deterministic and runs in your browser, so it works offline.
In Normal mode, each spot-on answer reveals one letter of the secret topic on the big board, so good answers make the topic easier to spot. Hard mode is for show-offs: forty seconds per question and no letters at all. Either way, press “I know the topic!” whenever you think you’ve cracked it. Name it within the first third of the questions for three stars. A wrong guess costs you a question, so don’t just shout out “cheese”.
At the end, the expert reveal shows the model answer to every question next to yours. If the server is reachable you’ll also see how today’s studio audience did. Past shows are in the archive, and the optional background music is generated live in your browser (no recordings involved).