How Nomp works
Where the people and categories come from, and how you're scored.
Names
Everyone in Nomp comes from Wikidata, the free database behind Wikipedia. It includes every person there with at least 5 sitelinks: pages about them on 5 or more of Wikipedia's languages and sister sites. That's about 830,000 people.
A guess counts if it matches someone's name or one of the other names Wikidata lists for them. Capitals, accents, spaces and punctuation don't matter, but spelling does.
Categories
Categories come from the same Wikidata entries: citizenship, occupation, sport, sports team, education, languages, birth decade, and sex or gender. Nomp keeps the ones that make good trivia and that many people share, and merges ones that mean the same thing.
Timed Nomp offers any category with at least 101 people. The Daily and Survival pick from a smaller set chosen by hand, each with thousands of people, such as the biggest countries and occupations.
Scoring
The Daily times how long you take to name all 6. Your result and share show it as a colored square:
- Under 1 minute
- 1 to 2 minutes
- 2 minutes or more
Hit rate is the share of your guesses that named someone. Every guess counts, including wrong ones and repeats, so naming all 6 in 6 guesses is 100%, and in 8 guesses is 75%.