OutClocked
A daily seven-question trivia game in which the clock halves after every question, from 60 seconds down to 0.94; the FAQ says “Karol Gajda dreamt it, Claude Code coded it.”
Official site outclocked.com, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked from the developer's own Show HN post and from the developer's site karol.gajda.com, which the game's footer links.
Where to play
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- Play free — official siteBrowserReleasedFree
Runs in a desktop or mobile browser. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About OutClocked
OutClocked is a free daily trivia game in the browser, on a phone or a computer. Everyone gets the same seven general-knowledge questions, with a new game at 6am Eastern Time: you have 60 seconds for the first question, and the clock halves after each one (30, 15, 7.5, 3.75, 1.88 and finally 0.94 seconds). Each question is shown on its own for three-quarters of a second before the answers appear; a wrong answer is crossed out and halves the time left for that question, and running out of time ends the game. You get one try at each day's game; earlier days can be replayed for fun with the answers shuffled, and holidays and big events get themed games. Signing in with an emailed link is optional: it keeps a streak, can put your score on the daily leaderboard, and lets you play in private friend leagues with weekly and season winners. The developer, Karol Gajda, says the game was built with Claude Code, with a first version in a couple of hours and about 10 hours in total; the FAQ puts it as “Karol Gajda dreamt it, Claude Code coded it.” The developer says the name was inspired by the Soundgarden song “Outshined”. Free, with nothing to download and no account needed.
How it was built
VerifiedThe Show HN post says: “I used Claude Code to build this game”; the first version took a couple of hours, and the developer had spent about 10 hours in total tweaking and improving it. The game's FAQ answers “Who created OutClocked?” with “Karol Gajda dreamt it, Claude Code coded it.” No model is named, and whether any code was written by hand is not stated.
- DeveloperFAQ: “Karol Gajda dreamt it, Claude Code coded it.” — OutClocked
- DeveloperThe developer's site lists OutClocked under “Cool things I've built in my spare time (with AI / Claude Code!)”. — karol.gajda.com
Built by the developer with Claude Code: a first version in a couple of hours, then about 10 hours of tweaking in total by mid-October, per the Show HN post. The stack is one Cloudflare Worker with a D1 (SQLite) database and plain JavaScript with no framework. The FAQ says every question is checked against a source, and checked again before its day; who writes the questions is not stated.
- Engine / framework
- No engine (plain JavaScript on a Cloudflare Worker with D1)
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- 1 (solo)Developer ReportedHacker News (karolgajda)
- Initial build time
- A couple of hours for the first version; about 10 hours in totalDeveloper ReportedHacker News (karolgajda)
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“Karol Gajda dreamt it, Claude Code coded it.”Verification notes: The AI claim comes from the developer's Show HN post of 16 Oct 2026 (12:59 UTC), the game's FAQ and the developer's own site, which all name Claude Code. Release date: the game page's structured data gives a publication date of 4 Oct 2026; the post does not give a launch date. Rules, daily schedule, replays, sign-in, leaderboard and friend leagues come from the game page and FAQ as read on 4 Nov 2026; the rule for wrong answers differs from the post (see conflicts). The player figures in the post (651 games, 26% out on the first question, 8% with all seven correct) are the developer's own totals since launch, excluding their own testing, and are recorded only in the history; they are not total players or downloads. Solo: the post speaks only of the developer, and the site credits Karol Gajda alone. The game makes no calls to an AI service while you play. Location is not stated.
Development history
Publication date given in the game page's structured data.
OfficialOutClockedThe developer posts the game on Hacker News as a Show HN, reporting 651 games played since launch (not counting their own testing), 26% of them out on the first question and 8% with all seven correct.
DeveloperHacker News (karolgajda)
Game performance
Each figure measures something different — concurrent players, owners, downloads and sales are never interchangeable and are never added together. Labels show where each number comes from.
Browser (official site)
Free in the browser with no account; signing in by email link is optional and enables streaks, the leaderboard and friend leagues.
No public metrics recorded for this listing.
Not publicly available: Concurrent players (site), Monthly revenue, Gross revenue.
Sales & revenue (all platforms)
Browser game — there are no downloads to count.
Reviews & rankings
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Not currently ranked.
Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Show HN: OutClocked, a nearly impossible daily trivia game Hacker News (karolgajda) | Social post | Oct 16, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| OutClocked: A Daily Trivia Quiz That's Nearly Impossible OutClocked | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| FAQ · OutClocked OutClocked | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Karol Gajda karol.gajda.com | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) OutClocked | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
- What a wrong answer does
- The Show HN post of 16 Oct 2026 says a wrong answer or an expired timer ends the game. The game page and FAQ, as read on 4 Nov 2026, say a wrong answer halves the time left for that question and only running out of time ends the game; the rules may have changed after the post. (Hacker News (karolgajda), OutClocked)
