What Jinxed is
Jinxed is a free party trivia game that runs in the browser at jinxed.party. One player opens a room, the others join with a four-letter code, and up to twenty people answer the same prompt at once. Nothing is downloaded and no account is needed to play: you type a nickname and you are in. The game's about page says it is made by one independent developer, who is not named there, and the only contact it offers is a support address on the same domain. A shop sells outfits for the cat that stands in for you, and the about page says those change nothing about how the game plays.
The art is a pixel-art witch's hut — shelves of bottles, a cauldron on the floor, a black cat above it — and the theme carries the scoring, because every answer you type is brewed into a potion.
How a round works
A round opens with a prompt such as Name a fruit or Name a figure from the Trojan War, and a clock that ran between about 15 and 30 seconds in the rounds we played. You type as many answers as you can before it runs out, and each one becomes a potion whose strength depends on how few other people give it. The tiers are Murky at 1,000 points, Bubbly at 2,000, Glowing at 3,000, Enchanted at 5,000 and Primordial at 8,000, and the best brew of the round takes a Top Shelf bonus of 500 on top.
The name of the game is the catch. When another player types the answer you typed, you are jinxed, and everyone who gave it splits its points evenly: a 2,000-point answer shared three ways pays each player 667. Knowing an answer is not the hard part, then — finding one the rest of the room will miss is. Wrong answers cost nothing and the game forgives typos and alternate spellings, so there is little reason to hold back.
Rooms, Quick Play and the Daily Brew
A room is made from the front page and shared as a four-letter code or as a link, which is the site address with that code after a hash. Quick Play skips the invitations and drops you in with whoever is online, which is how we played. People who arrive late are seated in the middle of a game, and if you close the tab by accident, reopening the page puts you back in your seat.
The prompts come in packs. Classics is the default and is written to be answerable by anyone at the table, General is a wider mix for adults, Themes covers categories such as animals, food, geography, music and sport, and All adds the hard ones. A beta option called Curses can be switched on in the lobby: get jinxed with it running and you may be punished for the rest of the round with tiny text, a hidden clock, a blurred or upside-down answer box, or swapped keys.
On your own there is the Daily Brew, three prompts a day, the same three for everybody. Instead of the players in a room you are measured against everyone who played that day: each of your answers is reported as a percentage of the day's brewers, and the game lists the five most-brewed answers once the prompt closes.
What we saw in a five-round game
Quick Play put us into an eleven-player room part-way through a five-round game on the Mythology and Legend pack. The first round we watched explained the scoring better than the rules page did. The prompt was Name a figure from the Trojan War, and the winning brew was Hector — a Murky potion, the commonest tier, worth 1,000 points — because nobody else in the room had typed it. With the Top Shelf bonus it took 1,500 and beat Odysseus, a 2,000-point Bubbly that three players had reached for and split at 667 each. The rarer answer, shared, paid less than half as much.
On the next prompt, Name a legendary creature or ghost from Latin America, we got four potions in before the clock died. La Patasola and Boitatá each came back Enchanted at 5,000, El Silbón was Glowing at 3,000, and La Llorona, which three of us reached for, was a Murky 1,000 split down to 333. With the Top Shelf bonus on La Patasola that round paid 13,833 and led the table. We had typed El Silbon and Boitata without their accents and the game accepted both and printed them properly.
Small touches do a lot of work. Each answer on the results screen carries a one-line gloss — La Patasola is labelled a one-legged vampire woman, Boitatá a fire serpent from Brazil — and the game names one good answer nobody reached, which that round was Pombero. At the end it hands out awards rather than only a score: Strayest Cat went to the player with 14 of 28 brews that were theirs alone, Black Cat to the player whose brews were jinxed seven times out of eight, and Nemesis to a pair who had jinxed each other nine times. A Hairball award went to two players who answered Aphrodite to the Trojan War prompt, with a note explaining that Aphrodite is a goddess and the prompt asked for the people of the war.
We finished fourth on 13,833 against a winning 38,501, having joined two rounds late, and our La Patasola was named Brew of the Game. An achievement called Lone Wolf, for brewing the only Enchanted or Primordial answer of a round with three or more players present, unlocked a calico coat for our cat. Achievements are kept on the device you played on unless you sign in.
The Daily Brew we played was numbered #6 and dated Monday 2 November 2026 by the game. Its three prompts — a word ending in "ful", a skin condition, and a European country with fewer than five million people in 2023 — drew 1,027, 923 and 868 brewers, and the summary screen counted 1,030 players for the day. The most-brewed answers show how crowded the obvious lane is: 53 per cent of players typed Eczema for the skin condition and 42 per cent typed Vatican City for the country. We scored 6,000 on that last prompt with Montenegro, which 10 per cent of the day's players had found, and Luxembourg, which 32 per cent had, both Glowing, and the game annotated each with its population.
Tips that follow from the scoring
An answer nobody else has beats a rarer one that is shared. That is the whole game, and the Hector round is the proof: a common 1,000-point answer with the Top Shelf bonus outscored a 2,000-point answer split three ways.
Skip the first thing you think of, or type it last. La Llorona, Eczema and Vatican City were each reached by between a third and a half of the players around us. If an answer feels inevitable, somebody else is typing it at that moment.
Type more rather than better. Wrong answers carry no penalty and misspellings are accepted, so an extra guess costs only the second it takes. The player who won our game did it on volume, with 14 of 28 brews unshared.
Read the prompt twice. The Hairball award exists because two players answered a Trojan War prompt with a goddess. Prompts that look loose are often narrower than they read.
Which site is the official one
The game is played at jinxed.party, and that is the address to use. The site runs the game itself rather than linking out to it, its about, privacy and terms pages sit on the same domain, and the only contact address it publishes is on that domain too. A room invitation is that same address with the room's four-letter code after a hash, so a link from a friend should look identical apart from the code.
Jinxed is an ordinary English word, so searching for it turns up unrelated games, phone apps and parked domains with the same name, and third-party game directories list this one and link out to it without running it themselves. This page is not affiliated with the game and does not host it; the button here goes to the developer's own site.
