How the quiz works
The idea is simple: we put you in the situations everyone has seen at the movies, and you choose what you'd really do. Not what you should do, what you'd do.
For example: '11 p.m. Footsteps in the attic, right above your head. There's nobody in the attic.' You can go up to look in your socks with the flickering torch, send your partner, lock the hatch and all sleep in the living room, or put everyone in the car. Each reaction is worth zero to three points, and the sum of the fifteen situations becomes a survival time.
A horror movie runs two and a half hours at most. With the worst reflexes, you last five minutes, the length of the opening credits. With the best, you reach 2 h 30: you survived the whole movie. In between, the result tells you at which minute you leave the story, and which choices saved you or got you killed.
As a couple, the first player answers the fifteen situations, passes the phone, and the second answers in turn. Your two times show up on the same timeline, with the name of the first victim and the situations where you didn't react the same way. If you're not together, remote mode lets you each answer on your own phone.
The five verdicts, from the opening scene to the end credits
The survival time reads in five tiers, and each one matches a character everyone recognises.
The survival rules the quiz checks
All horror movies have the same rules, and everyone knows them: you don't split up, you don't go down to the basement, you never read an old book out loud, you refuse shortcuts through the woods, and when the killer is on the ground, you don't check, you leave. The quiz goes through these rules one by one, in concrete situations.
What's funny as a couple is discovering that one of you has all the right reflexes and the other opens the attic hatch at the first question. Usually, the one who dies first is also the one who says “come on, it's just a movie” when you look at which of you could get possessed.
To carry on the evening, the compatible serial killer quiz and the one about the supervillain you're most like are in the same vein, with a portrait at the end rather than a timer. And all our seasonal quizzes are gathered on a single page.
Two useful details
The minutes are calculated on the sum of the points, between 5 and 150: it's a scale, not a prediction. Two people with the same total get the same time, even if they didn't answer the same questions the same way. The list of what saved you and what got you killed tells you where it was decided.
Nothing is saved. The answers stay on your phone, and you can retake the quiz as many times as you want, switching roles or answers.
