About

EXHAUSTIN is a trivia game built for an eleven-year-old called Austin. The joke it is entirely constructed around is that his name hides inside a surprising number of other words — and once you notice, you cannot stop noticing. Get an answer right and it says AUSTINISHING. Get a few in a row and it says un-Austin-able. The hardest difficulty is called FULLY AUSTINATED.

The name also sets the rules. This is not a gentle quiz you dip into. Every mode has a clock or a chain or a life count, and the headline mode — Endurance — is designed to keep going until you physically cannot keep up. Its score is a time rather than a number of points, so what you are chasing is your own best, spelled out in words: You lasted 4 minutes 12 seconds.

How it was built

Every question is hand-written and ships inside the app. That was a deliberate choice rather than a shortcut: a generic trivia API cannot supply the shapes these modes need — ordered lists for Sort It, comparable numbers for Higher or Lower, four-item sets with a stated reason for Odd One Out — and fetching questions would have meant the game stopped working the moment the signal did.

Facts that are genuinely disputed were left out rather than guessed at. A trivia game that teaches a child something wrong is worse than one with fewer questions in it.

What it deliberately does not have

No accounts, no sign-in, no multiplayer, no leaderboards, no chat, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no analytics. It is a game for one person on one device, and everything it remembers stays on that device. See Privacy for the full detail.

Credits

Built with Ionic and Vue, and packaged for phones with Capacitor.

Contact: harfredlabs@gmail.com.