How to run a mini league on AtlasGenie

A mini league turns the daily challenge into a friendly competition. Everyone in the league plays the same 10 questions each day, the scores go into one table, and at the end of the month one player wins. It takes about two minutes to set up, and joining is free for anyone with an account.

Sign in, open Leagues and choose Create a league. Give it a name your friends will recognise, up to 30 characters. You'll get a short join code and an invite link. Share the link wherever your group already talks: a family chat, a class group, a team channel. Anyone who opens it can sign in or create a free account, then join your league with one tap.

A free account can create one league and be a member of up to three. Premium removes both limits. Every league holds up to 50 players, which is plenty for most groups and small enough that the table still feels personal.

Before you appear in a table you'll be asked to choose a display name. That's the name your league sees; your email address is never shown to other players.

League points are not the same as your game score. The daily challenge still scores up to 10,000, but the league only cares about two things: did you play, and where did you finish that day?

• Playing earns 10 points.
• Finishing 1st in your league that day earns 10 more, 2nd earns 7, 3rd earns 5, 4th earns 3, and everyone else earns 1.

So a day's winner takes 20 points and a player who finishes last still takes 11. Over a month, that adds up in an interesting way. A player who plays every day and finishes mid-table will usually beat someone who wins brilliantly a few times and then disappears for a week. Turning up matters more than any single great score.

That's deliberate. A league is most fun when everyone has a reason to play tomorrow, not only the strongest player in the group. If you miss a day, you lose the 10 points for playing plus whatever you'd have earned for your place, and there's no way to make up a missed day later.

Ties on the day are split by total answer time, so a quick, confident run beats a slow one with the same score.

Each week there is also a weekly fixture: one set game, the same for every league, with a mode, region and difficulty that change from week to week. You get one attempt, it counts double (20 points for playing, then 20, 14, 10, 6 or 2 for your place), and it never uses up your daily free games. Fixture points go into the same monthly table, so a good fixture can swing a close race.

Hints never apply to league games. Nothing that scores league points can be bought, now or later.

Every league runs in monthly seasons, from the 1st to the last day of the month in UTC, the daily challenge's own calendar. On the 1st the table starts again from zero, so someone who joins on the 20th is never stuck at the bottom forever. The finished season is archived with its final standings, and you can look back at every past month from the league's Past seasons page. Nobody is removed when a season ends.

Pick a rhythm. Groups that play at roughly the same time each day, over breakfast or on the commute home, keep going far longer than groups that play whenever.

Share the table, not just your score. The league share card shows the top three and your position. Posting it once a week gives everyone a nudge without nagging.

Start small, then grow. Five or six people who all play beats thirty who signed up once. Invite your keenest players first and let them bring others.

Use the 1st of the month. A fresh season is the easiest moment to invite new people, because everyone starts level.

Run more than one. If your family and your colleagues play very differently, give each group its own league rather than mixing them.

Make the fixture an event. Agree a day to play the weekly fixture together and compare notes afterwards. It's the one game where everyone has the same mode as you, not only the same questions.

Ready to start? Open Leagues, create yours and send the link.