Footbillion

What Footbillion is

Footbillion is a football trivia game — football in the association football (soccer) sense: World Cups, European Championships, the Copa América, the Champions League, the Premier League, the Africa Cup of Nations, the Copa Libertadores, the Olympic tournament, and the players and managers who put their names in those competitions. One card a day, seven questions, one score, about two minutes of your time.

The idea behind Footbillion is simple and it is not the usual quiz format. You are not picking the one right answer out of four. Every option on the card is true. What you are choosing is how deep to go.

How a Footbillion card works

A Footbillion card is seven questions. Each question asks you to name one thing out of a set that all share one property — a nation that has won the World Cup, a club that has lifted the European Cup more than once, a goalkeeper who has won the World Cup, a manager who has won a Premier League title. The options are all correct. Nothing on the card is a trap.

Pick the one you think most people would not think of. A household name pays 25 points. The name that took you a second longer to recognise pays 100.

A new Footbillion card goes up at 00:00 UTC, which is 19:00 in New York and 01:00 in Madrid the night before. A card is one sitting: seven questions, no half-time, no resume button. Each question carries a 30-second clock unless you turn it off. Most people finish in under two minutes. There is nothing to install and nothing to register — open the page, tap play, answer.

How Footbillion scoring works

Every answer carries a score before you ever see it. On each question the answers are ranked by how well known the subject is, and split into four bands:

Band	Points
Least well known quarter of the card	100
Second quarter	75
Third quarter	50
Best known quarter	25

Seven questions at 100 points each is 700. Picking the safest name every time gets you 175. So the whole game is one decision, repeated seven times: do you trust the obvious name or the one on the edge of memory?

The measure of “well known” is how much attention a subject actually gets — the monthly page views of its English Wikipedia article over the past twelve months. A club with a huge global following has a heavy article; a keeper from a 1958 final does not. The card uses that figure so the scoring is not my opinion in the moment: each answer is placed in its band by that number and nothing else, ranked against the other seven answers on the same question. The records the cards are built from, their licences and the date the figures were pulled are listed on the data sources page.

Why the rare answers pay more

A quiz rewards memory. Footbillion rewards a specific kind of memory: the stuff you know but never get asked about. Anyone can name Brazil and Germany. Very few people reach for Uruguay on a question about world champions, even though Uruguay won the thing twice, in 1930 and 1950, and the second one is one of the most famous matches ever played.

That is the whole design. A question is worth playing when the answer you already have is worth less than the answer you could dig out. Every card is built so that the obvious names are there and the forgotten ones are there too, and you have to decide at each question how much you are willing to risk.

Playing Footbillion on a phone

Footbillion is built for a phone first. The card fills the width of the screen, the answers sit in two columns so a whole question fits without scrolling, there is no sideways scrolling, and the player goes full screen if you want it bigger. On a laptop the same card runs in a 4:3 frame on the page; on a phone it switches to a taller frame so the answers stay on screen.

The 30-second clock sits above the answers as a thin bar, with the seconds counting down next to it; the last ten seconds turn red. If you would rather think without a clock, the small button on its right switches it off, and it stays off the next time you open a card.

Nothing loads until you press play. That first screen is the cover, the press starts a short loading state in the same frame, and the questions appear in that same spot. No redirect, no new tab, no pop-up.

Footbillion FAQ — questions players ask

Is Footbillion free?

Yes. No sign-up, no account, no payment, no ads. There is nothing on the page that asks you for an email address.

How many questions are on a Footbillion card?

Seven. Each one is worth up to 100 points, so 700 is the maximum score.

Is there a time limit on a question?

Yes — 30 seconds a question by default, shown as a bar above the answers, and the last ten seconds turn red. Tap the small button on the right of the bar to switch the clock off. The setting is remembered, so it stays off on your next card until you turn it back on.

When does a new card go up?

Every day at 00:00 UTC. The game reads the date from your clock in UTC, so the card turns over for everyone at the same moment.

What happens if I pick badly?

Nothing breaks. You still score the points tied to the answer you picked — the safe name pays less, that is all. There is no penalty and no way to lose a card.

Can I go back and play an earlier card?

Not yet. The archive opens once a full week of cards is on file; until then each day only has the card for that day.

Which competitions do the questions cover?

World Cups, European Championships, Copa América, Champions League and European Cup, Premier League, Africa Cup of Nations, Copa Libertadores, and the men’s Olympic tournament.

Can I play Footbillion with a keyboard?

Not yet. The card is built for tapping. A keyboard path is on the list for a later version.

Do I need to download anything?

No. Footbillion runs in the browser, on iOS and Android, in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.

Is it Footbillion, foot billion or footbilion?

All three are this site. The name is Footbillion — one word, two b’s in the middle. People arrive here typing footbillion, foot billion, footbilion or futbillion.

A note on the question bank

The questions are built from open football data — competition records, winners, finals, squads — and each answer is checked against that record before it goes on a card. The records and the page-view figures behind every score are listed on the data sources page. If you find a name on a card that is not true for the question, write it in the comments below; a wrong answer is a defect and it gets fixed, not argued about.