Changelog

Updates to the MIT Trivia quiz.

v3.9.1 - 2026-06-04

Fixed: if you play under a new name but use an email that's already on the leaderboard, we now ask whether to use the new name everywhere or keep your original, instead of quietly creating a second name.

Your nickname is prefilled when you're logged in. You can change it, but it updates your name on every one of your leaderboard entries, so we'll ask you to confirm, and you can only change it once every two days.

You stay logged in on your device after verifying once, and there's now a **Log out** link (in the footer) for when you hand your phone to someone else.
**Log in to the lounge without replaying:** if you've already played and confirmed your email before, just tap "Log in" in the lounge and enter that email to get back in on a new device.

Fixed: you can now post in the lounge even if your phone switched networks (Wi-Fi to cellular, say) between playing and chatting.

Added a "Buy me a coffee" link in the footer if you'd like to chip in.
Extra, behind-the-scenes spam protection so the leaderboard and lounge stay real people only. You shouldn't notice anything.

Saving your score now uses a quick email confirmation instead of an invite code. Play the quiz freely; when you want a spot on the leaderboard, enter your email and tap the link we send. We only use it to keep bots off the leaderboard, never for ads or tracking. On the same device you won't have to confirm again.
The lounge is now for players who've confirmed their email.
Each winner's "Tim the Beaver" portrait is created once.

Leaderboard entries now expand: tap any row to see when it was played, the quiz version, and the result. The top three stay open.
Filter the leaderboard by quiz version (defaults to the latest), or view all versions at once.
Top-10 finishers can turn a selfie into their own illustrated "Tim the Beaver." Your photo is only used to create the cartoon and is never stored. Portraits are framed gold, silver, or bronze for the top three.
Top-3 finishers get a celebratory diploma with their illustration and results.
Saving your score and joining the lounge now use the access code from your invite (the leaderboard stays public to view). Opening the invite link signs you in automatically; otherwise you can still play, and you'll be prompted to enter the code to save.

Added six MIT-vs-Harvard rivalry questions across all difficulties. Two are anchored in real history (the 1982 Harvard-Yale balloon hack, MIT's 1861 "Mens et Manus" charter); the rest are good-natured trash talk about the school down the river. The question pool is now 60. Leaderboard data is untouched.

New primary address: https://ihtfp.app. The previous link still works as a backup.

Answer choices are now shuffled each time you play.
Picking an answer no longer submits it automatically: tap a choice to highlight it, then tap "Submit answer" to lock it in. After the reveal, the same button becomes Next / See results.
The running score now sits next to the question number and difficulty.

New Lounge: a shared chat. To post, finish at least one round under the name you're posting as; anyone can read along without playing. Messages are capped at 280 characters, rate-limited, and tagged with the quiz version.
The Lounge button toggles in and out of the chat and remembers where you came from. New messages refresh automatically.

Leaderboard scores now show a small version badge so you can tell which question set they were played on.

Expanded the question bank from 36 to 54, weighted toward 2002-2006 events MIT alumni from that era would recognize: Howe & Ser cannon heist, Wright Flyer on the Dome, Eye of Sauron in Lobby 7, Half-Blood Prince scar, fire truck on the Dome for the 9/11 5th anniversary, Wii Triforce, the VOMIT sign at Stata, Hockfield on the dollar-bill mural, Simmons Hall opening, Stata opening, 6.001 = Scheme, Mystery Hunt rules, and more.
Fixed the Smoot question to use the colloquial cite, "5'7" and an ear".
New "How everyone did" card after the leaderboard, with Today / All-time tabs. Shows the three hardest and three easiest questions with their correct rate.

Public release with a stable URL, suitable for printed QR codes.
Name ownership: the first player to claim a name keeps it. The same player can replay under it; a different player is prompted to pick another.

Leaderboard with daily / all-time tabs, top-10 highlighting, paging, name search, and a "your rank" callout after submission.
Question bank grew to 36 entries across easy / medium / hard tiers.
Hero banner gets a MIThenge sun-sweep animation (respects reduced-motion).
Perfect-score celebration: golden ray-burst, halo, and a bobbing beaver.

Initial 12-question MIT trivia quiz with shuffled order and tiered end-screen messages.
MIT cardinal-red branding, a custom hero banner (Great Dome silhouette with a Greek-key border), and an engineer-beaver mascot.