Nation Wants To Guess

Original Source
Leaderboard & final Screen
Share your Votes
Main Splash Screen
Quizz Page

Inspiration

There were plenty of quiz-style games on Reddit, but I wanted someting light hearted for fun, hilarious news. I didn't want to use my brain while I am doomscrooling some celeb gossips. Therefore, I created this to turn current events and famous faces into a daily guessing ritual, something you play in the feed while doomscrolling & would like to pass any funny comments instantly on it.

What it does

It's a newspaper-themed guessing game where every Reddit post is its own game. I play through multiple-choice quiz questions (+10 each), then bet my score on a "Who Am I?" round 5 cryptic clues, 3 lives, guess the mystery figure. My score hits a per-post and weekly leaderboard, and I can share it as a comment. Anyone can also author and publish their own quiz post from inside the app.

How I built it

I built it on Reddit's Devvit Web platform. The frontend is Phaser 4, but all the UI is DOM overlays styled as a newspaper Phaser just handles the background. The backend is Hono on Devvit's server runtime, with Redis for everything: questions, subjects, images (stored inline as base64), and leaderboards. Splash previews are generated with Satori and cached.

Challenges I ran into

Devvit blocks external image hosting and fetches, so I had to store every image inline as a base64 data URL under a 1MB cap. Keeping the weekly leaderboard replay-safe was tricky I track each post's best score separately so replaying can't inflate your weekly total. Fitting a full newspaper layout into a no-scroll splash and keeping Redis "sets" working with only hashes were fun constraints too.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

A cohesive newspaper aesthetic end to end from the in-feed splash to "The Daily Verdict" endgame. The wager mechanic that makes the final round tense. And a full in-app creation wizard so the community can publish their own games, not just play mine.

What I learned

How to build a real, stateful multiplayer-ish game entirely within Reddit's platform constraints — no external hosting, hash-only Redis, CSP limits —and how much personality good typography and copy add to a simple quiz.