Rules · rarity · strategy
Hooked daily game guide
The official site tells you the rules. This guide splits the questions people actually bring: how scoring works, why heavy fish are common, and what the pass changes.
Hooked is a free daily trivia game played in the browser. Five categories, thirty seconds each, and every accepted answer becomes a fish. The rarer the answer, the heavier the fish. The fifth category scores double. That sentence is the whole sport. Everything else is equipment, streaks, and whether you want more than one haul a day.
Start with the rules if you have not finished a haul. The how-to-play page walks the nine beats the official rules use, including the alias prompt and the fact that a refresh skips you forward instead of back to the start. Read fish rarity next if the weights feel arbitrary. The five bands are published, and the first sixteen archive days show that Anglerfish, the heavy band, is most of the answer list.
Read strategy when the total looks stuck. The official pages do not coach the clock. The useful observation from the archive is simple: famous answers are the light ones. Specific answers are where the weight sits. Streaks and rewards is the equipment page, six rods and eight bobbers, with rods on the daily streak and bobbers on a single heavy haul.
Hooked Pass is the paid page. Five dollars once, for unlimited extra rounds, a crew of up to five, duels, and the archive. The daily haul stays free. If the game will not load or a streak vanished after a browser change, the how-to-play FAQ covers refresh behavior and local storage before any separate troubleshooting page exists.
Eighty categories from 27 Oct 2026 through 11 Nov 2026 are tallied on the category index. None of them repeated in that window. A category is only supposed to return after thirty days, and a return brings a new Kraken or a shorter clock.
| You want | Open | You will find | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The rules of one haul | How to play | Nine beats, alias prompt, refresh | Official rules · 1 source family |
| Why some fish weigh more | Fish rarity | Five bands and the archive mix | Official rules + archive · 1 source family |
| A heavier 30 seconds | Strategy | Order of guesses, round five | Editorial analysis of official rules |
| Rods and bobbers | Streaks | Day 0 through day 25, 0–250 lb | Official home + FAQ · 1 source family |
| The $5 purchase | Hooked Pass | Five modes and what stays free | Official home + FAQ · 1 source family |
Questions people ask
Where are today's answers?
The latest haul recap lists the five categories and the Kraken for each. The full accepted list stays on the official archive.
Is there a points calculator?
No. Weight is the score. The rarity page shows the published center for each band.
Who made the game?
An independent developer in the United States who also makes Moonshot. Details are on the about page.
Keep reading
Sources
- Official how to play — checked 2026-11-12
- Official FAQ — checked 2026-11-12
- Official about — checked 2026-11-12
- Official answer archive — checked 2026-11-12