How It Works
Accept Hot Potato and a single countdown timer starts spanning a set of consecutive questions. The timer never pauses — not between questions, not during reveals. Every second you spend on one question steals time from the rest. Correct answers bank positive points. Wrong answers bank negative points. You play every question regardless. When it's over, a time-based amplifier scales your net score — faster play earns a bigger multiplier.
Why It Matters
Hot Potato is brutal. The shared timer creates constant pressure, and wrong answers actively hurt your score instead of just not helping. But a clean run with time to spare earns a massive amplifier on top of already-good points. It's the highest-variance mode in the game.
Quick Reference
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Tips
- Speed is more important than certainty here — a fast wrong answer is less costly than a slow right answer
- Don't agonize over any single question — you need to budget time across all of them
- Your hearts are safe, so the risk is purely in the point math
- Decline if you're running low on hearts and want to play it safe anyway — the score swing can be jarring