Fandom Dex — Rules and Strategy
An encyclopedia-style quiz that shows you only type, ability, and move-name hints, and asks you to name a singer, an anime character, a movie, or a superhero. Use fewer hints and answer faster to score higher.
The one-line version
This isn't a game that shows you a silhouette or a picture first. It hands you two type badges and a handful of made-up move names and makes you deduce the identity from there. The actual image only appears after the round ends — win or lose.
Four dexes
Four categories are playable right now (a VTuber dex and a Football dex are marked "coming soon" and aren't accessible yet):
- Singer Dex — 105 idols, balladeers, rappers, and bands. This is the one category that leans Korean pop music specifically.
- Character Dex — 101 anime and cartoon characters, spanning Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Detective Conan, Doraemon, and Ghibli, plus a handful of Korea-only cartoons like Dooly.
- Movie Dex — 129 films, from The Wizard of Oz to Jurassic Park, Titanic, and The Shawshank Redemption — genre-agnostic classics and hits.
- Hero Dex — 110 Marvel and DC heroes and villains. This is actually the largest of the four dexes.
Core rules
- Every question starts with two type badges. Elemental types (Fire, Water, Grass, and so on) stand in as a metaphor for who the answer is. Character and Hero questions also carry 1–2 "ability" tags.
- Move names come first, meanings come later. You see 2–4 invented move names, but what each one actually refers to — a song, a signature anime attack, a famous movie scene — stays hidden at first.
- Guessing is free text, with autocomplete doing the heavy lifting. Type a name and up to 5 matching candidates drop down; the system recognizes real names, nicknames, and other-script spellings (e.g. Goku's aliases include "Kakarot" and 孫悟空). Enter submits the top match.
- Three attempts, with a hint unlocked at each miss. Miss once (or tap the hint button) and each move's real-world origin, plus a debut-generation year band, gets revealed. Miss a second time (or hint again) and it switches to a forced 4-option multiple choice — your last shot.
- Score depends on stage, streak, and speed. A hint-free correct answer is worth 100 points, a post-first-hint answer 60, and a multiple-choice answer 30. A consecutive-correct streak multiplies your score up to ×2, and answering within 5 seconds adds +30, within 10 seconds +20, within 20 seconds +10.
Strategy
1. Type your best guess before you reach for the hint
Guessing wrong in free-text mode advances you to the same next stage as clicking the hint button would — there's no extra penalty for trying. But getting it right nets the full 100 points plus a speed bonus. If you have even a rough idea, type it before you hint.
2. Use the generation band to narrow the field
The debut-year band revealed at the first hint cuts the candidate pool sharply. Cross it against the type and ability tags, and often only a few real candidates are left who fit all three.
3. The four multiple-choice options are deliberately close
The three wrong answers in the final multiple choice aren't random — they're picked to share the same generation first, then the same type. That means all four options tend to look plausible, so lean on the specific details you already unlocked (especially the move origins) rather than a gut pick.
4. Don't blind-guess your last attempt
A wrong answer on the multiple-choice stage scores zero for that question and breaks your combo streak. Guessing with zero information and guessing after using the generation and move-origin hints are very different odds — use what you unlocked.
5. Treat the Challenge mode percentile as an estimate, not a leaderboard
⚡ Challenge mode (30 questions) ignores whatever category or difficulty you'd picked and pulls from the entire question pool; the "top N%" it shows afterward is a modeled estimate based on assumed accuracy rates per difficulty, not real data from other players. Read it as a rough gauge, not a real ranking.
6. A battle link sends the exact same questions, in the same order
"⚔️ Copy battle link" encodes the literal list of questions you just answered into the link. When your friend opens it, they get the identical set in the identical order — it's a fixed question set, not a random seed. If you want a genuinely fair rematch, it also helps to tell each other how many hints you each used.
FAQ
Does the quiz change every day?
No. Questions are randomized fresh every time — there's no daily seed. Pick 10, 20, 30, or 50 questions and start a new round whenever you like.
Do I need an account?
No. You can play immediately with no sign-in.
Where is my progress stored?
In your browser only, never sent to a server — including your best score per dex.
Can I battle a friend in real time?
No. The battle link encodes the exact same set of questions you just played and hands it to your friend — there's no live sync. They play it separately, and you compare scores manually from the shared result text.
Does Challenge mode save a best score too?
No. Your best score only updates in normal mode. Challenge mode (⚡ 30 questions) pulls randomly from the entire pool and instead shows an estimated top-percent ranking.
Is all the content Korean-specific?
No. The Character, Movie, and Hero dexes are mostly globally recognized content — Ghibli, Marvel, DC, Hollywood classics. The Singer dex is the one Korea-leaning category, and even there it mixes globally famous acts (BTS, BLACKPINK, aespa) with artists who are mainly known within Korea.
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