Dino Duel 🦖

A two-player, hot-seat dinosaur trivia game. Take turns on a single device — each round, Player 1 locks in their pick, hands the device over (a "no peeking" handoff screen hides their answer), then Player 2 answers. Fifteen questions drawn fresh from a pool of 100+ for a different dig every game.

▶ Play it: https://context-lab.com/dino-trivia/

How to play

1. Enter both players' names and tap Begin the Dig.
2. Player 1 picks an answer.
3. Hand the device to Player 2 — their pick is hidden behind a lock screen.
4. Player 2 picks. Both answers are revealed and scores update.
5. After 15 questions, the player with the most correct wins. Ties get dual crowns.

Keyboard shortcuts: A B C D (or 1 2 3 4) to answer, Enter to advance past the handoff and reveal screens.

Running locally

It's a single static HTML file with no dependencies and no build step.

# Easiest — just open it
open index.html

# Or serve it (Google Fonts preconnect behaves better over http://)
python3 -m http.server
# then visit http://localhost:8000

Adding questions

Append entries to the POOL array in index.html using this shape:

{ q: "Your question text", a: "Correct answer", w: ["Wrong 1", "Wrong 2", "Wrong 3"] }

The game shuffles the pool, draws 15 per round, and randomizes option order — no need to pre-shuffle or vary the correct slot.

Tech

Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks, no bundler, no dependencies. Hosted on GitHub Pages directly from main.

License

MIT © Contextual Dynamics Laboratory