Short, direct answers to the questions people send us most often, grouped by topic: how the game works, whether AI detection is realistic, what happens to your data, and how to use the quiz in a classroom.
Tap real or AI — the answer resolves immediately, no sign-up.
Reality Check is a free browser game in which you decide whether an image, a headline, a flag or a short video is real or AI-generated. One item at a time, one decision, immediate feedback. A normal game is ten rounds and takes about two minutes.
There are four difficulty levels and separate modes for images, headlines, flags and videos. Points depend on speed and accuracy together, so a fast correct answer scores higher than a slow one.
Detection is a probability, not a guarantee. The best you can do is gather independent clues and be open about how confident you are. Models improve with every release, and compression removes the fine detail that clues usually live in, which is exactly why practice matters more than memorising a list of mistakes.
Yes, completely. Playing costs nothing, no payment is ever requested, and no feature is locked behind a subscription.
No. The game starts immediately. An account is only useful if you want your name to stay on the leaderboard across devices.
Each correct answer earns points that shrink as the seconds pass, up to a maximum per round. Wrong answers earn zero. A perfect game is worth 10,000 points.
One fixed set of images that everyone sees on the same day, with a separate leaderboard. It resets daily and is the simplest way to build a habit.
You can get measurably better at reading clues, and worse at being overconfident, which is arguably more useful. The quiz gives you a score so you can see the change.
Ten rounds reduce luck but do not remove it. Play a few games and look at the average rather than a single result.
It is suitable from secondary school age. There is advertising on the site, so parents and teachers should check whether that is acceptable for their setting.
Game progress is kept locally in the browser. For the leaderboard a display name is stored, plus anonymous answer statistics without any personal details.
Yes. The teacher page includes a forty-five minute lesson plan, discussion questions and notes on privacy and advertising.
No. Answer statistics are used to show anonymous aggregate results and to improve the difficulty balance of the image pool.
Real photographs come from documentary-style free photo libraries; generated images are produced for this project. Both sides are credited on the about page.
Yes. A multiplayer mode and a party mode let several players share one room code and answer the same images at the same time.
Ten images, one decision each, points for speed and accuracy. Free, no account needed.
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