How It Works
The shape of the game in under five minutes.
Five questions, every day
Every day at midnight, The Polymath serves you five questions drawn from five pillars of knowledge. Some days are even across the pillars; some are themed — a Culture day, a History day, the occasional zoom into one subject. The format is the same: read, answer, see why.
Each question has a difficulty tier — Curious through Scholar — that determines how much it's worth. Harder questions count more, both for the day and for the long arc.
Two scores, one game
Every session produces two outcomes — distinct on purpose.
Raw points
The daily game number
What you see as your daily score. Resets every morning. Rewards showing up, getting things right, and the occasional clean sweep.
Effective score
The long-term progression
What fills your radar, lifts your pillar levels, and earns you a classification. Rewards accuracy and depth across time.
The five pillars
Knowledge organized into five worlds, six domains each — thirty domains in all. Your radar plots your effective score in each pillar, so the shape of what you know becomes literal.
Your classification
As your effective scores grow, The Polymath assigns you an archetype — a name for the kind of thinker your shape suggests. The Naturalist. The Strategist. The Tapestrist. The Polymath itself, the apex.
Your archetype evolves through five levels as your knowledge grows. The label you start with is rarely the one you end with.
The full archetype system →Free to play
The game is always free. An account unlocks your radar, your classification, your stats, your streaks, and your groups.
The fun is free. The mirror costs an email address.