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Original puzzles and arithmetic

Number questions are checked by their displayed calculation. Logic puzzles keep explicit constraints and a solution that can be checked against those constraints. Game scores, timings and point allocations labeled as house rules are choices for play, not survey results or measured outcomes.

Word lists, party activities and blank sheets are original selections or designs. Their item counts and sheet counts are calculated from the material on the page.

Word finder dictionary

The word finder uses lowercase English spellings from SCOWL, release 2020.12.07. Sound searches use covered US pronunciations from the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, revision 7479086. Copyright and license notices.

Difficulty guide

These bands are an editorial guide, not an age test. Easy uses familiar words or a direct step. Medium combines clues or needs more specific knowledge. Hard uses several linked steps, an indirect reading or specialist recall. A host should read the set before choosing it for a group.

Reference notes and reuse

Older trivia includes Wikipedia references pinned to a revision. Those references are identified beside the answer; the linked article retains its attribution history. Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Bible questions link to the public-domain World English Bible.

Brand-topic quizzes are independent text-only questions. MadBright is not affiliated with the publishers or rights holders named in them.

Updates and corrections

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Game rules

• FIDE Laws of Chess: chess rules.
• American Go Association rules: Go rules.
• MadBright's activity instructions are house rules unless a named external rule set is linked.

Question references

1,571 references across 55 sets. Open a set to see the pages its answers were checked against.