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The Curiosity Game

Curiosity, in ninety seconds a day

An adaptation of The Curious Advantage content and challenges into a mobile-first, light-touch game — a way to build curiosity across a whole organization, a few minutes at a time.

How it plays

Simple, fast, and quietly competitive

The game consists of simple, fast, timed mini-games that engage the user in curious topics.

Questions get harder as players answer, and the game tracks their streak and shows it on a leaderboard — which turns out to be the thing that keeps a whole department coming back on day nine.

Two phone screens from the Curiosity Game: an anagram puzzle, and a question asking
                  which of the 7Cs sparks a new cycle of curiosity

The question bank

Yours, or ours

Questions can be pre-configured, or designed and implemented through the admin area. The engine supports questions built from visuals, text, or a combination of both.

Multiple choice

The workhorse format — quick to write, quick to answer, easy to scale across a large question bank.

Visual puzzles

Problems that need looking at rather than reading, which shifts players out of autopilot.

Clickable images

Images with right and wrong answers marked directly on them — good for spotting, comparing and noticing.

Memory tests

Short recall challenges that reward attention, not speed-reading.

Word challenges

Language puzzles that stretch how precisely people can say what they mean.

Your own content

Load your strategy, your products or your values into the same mechanic and let people learn them sideways.

Where it fits

Three ways teams use it

After a keynote

Keeps the ideas alive for the two weeks when everyone is still talking about the talk.

Between modules

Light daily contact that holds a cohort together through a longer learning program.

As a campaign

A 30-day organization-wide challenge with a leaderboard, run as its own moment.

Want to test your people's curiosity?

We will walk you through the game and the admin area, and talk about your question bank.