{
  "id": "christmas-trivia",
  "title": "The Paper Crown: Christmas Quiz",
  "catalogNo": "AGC · 035",
  "genre": "Trivia game",
  "shelf": "quiz",
  "summary": "25 Christmas quiz questions and answers, hosted by your AI for one player or a few teams, every answer and its source fixed before play.",
  "tagline": "A Christmas trivia night for one player or up to four teams: 25 questions on customs, carols, stories, nature and food, each answer sealed before play.",
  "players": "1+",
  "sessionMinutes": [
    20,
    45
  ],
  "rating": "All ages",
  "isFree": true,
  "playedIn": [
    "ChatGPT",
    "Claude",
    "Gemini"
  ],
  "status": "playable",
  "url": "https://aigamecards.com/games/christmas-trivia/",
  "loadUrl": "https://aigamecards.com/g/christmas-trivia/card-15f8eebc086f.txt",
  "system": "https://aigamecards.com/g/christmas-trivia/SYSTEM.md",
  "loadPrompt": "Let's play a game. Fetch https://aigamecards.com/g/christmas-trivia/card-15f8eebc086f.txt and run it as the game — it's a complete, self-contained prompt. If that link won't open, fetch https://aigamecards.com/g/christmas-trivia/SYSTEM.md, the same card. The card's sealed answer file is https://aigamecards.com/g/christmas-trivia/reveal-5c12a91031f1.md: fetch it when the card says to, and keep it from me until the card says to show it. If the card or its sealed file won't open, don't start without them: tell me this game needs a chat that can open links. Be the game master and begin.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "Can ChatGPT host a family Christmas quiz?",
      "a": "It can play game show host, but on its own it can make answers up and stick to them, and in voice mode it has given answers away while children were still thinking: one family's football quiz got an invented hat-trick, an \"I'm sure!\", and answers read out before the children could discuss them. Here every answer, the other forms it accepts, the near misses it refuses and a source for each were sealed under a SHA-256 hash before release. The card tells the host to rule only from that key, to name the source with every ruling, to answer no question from its own knowledge, and to rule on nothing until every team has answered. The seal shows the key did not move; it cannot show that every ruling was right."
    },
    {
      "q": "What does the seal prove, and what doesn't it?",
      "a": "It proves the answer key did not change: its SHA-256 hash was published before release, and after the night you can rebuild it from the revealed key at aigamecards.com/verify. It does not prove the host ruled every answer correctly, so each ruling names the key's answer and its source for you to check, and the card tells the host to correct any ruling that misapplied the key. The key is a public file: it is fixed before play and checkable after, not hidden from a player who goes looking for it."
    },
    {
      "q": "How long is it, and how many can play?",
      "a": "Twenty to forty-five minutes for 25 Christmas trivia questions. Play solo, or as two to four teams of any size at one screen. Every team answers every question, written down first and sent together in one message, so no team sits out a turn. A tie at the top goes to the Wishbone: up to two sealed questions with a year for an answer, closest wins. Say \"save\" between questions for a code that resumes the night in a new chat."
    },
    {
      "q": "Is it a good family Christmas quiz for children and classrooms?",
      "a": "It works as a family quiz or in a classroom, and the content suits all ages: customs around the world, how traditions began, classic stories and carols, winter nature and festive food, with nothing frightening. Difficulty is another matter: the one-pointers suit primary-school children and several five-pointers are hard for adults, so mix ages on every team. The board mixes American, British and world customs, and each side will find a few questions hard. About a third of the questions touch Christian customs (saints' days, Advent, the Nativity story, a carol, a prayer book), told as history; none asks what anyone believes. The card tells the host not to say whether Father Christmas, Santa or their story (flying reindeer, elves, presents) is real; asked, it is told to say \"That one is for your family.\" Teams play as Bells, Tinsel, Mittens and Sprouts, so the game never asks for anyone's name. It assumes an adult or teacher at the keyboard; a class can play as up to four teams of any size."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does the chat have to open a link, and can we play by voice?",
      "a": "It has to open a link. The host fetches the sealed key from aigamecards.com when the night starts; pasting it in yourself would show you every answer. Not every app can, and it changes; aigamecards.com/launch-matrix shows which currently do. Start the night by typing. Once the key is loaded you can switch to voice in the same chat if your app allows it, with one adult speaking the teams' written answers. No account beyond the chat app you already use, and nothing to buy."
    }
  ]
}