Play Ascent with your class or team

Ascent is a four-minute daily word game made for playing together. Everyone gets the same seven prompts, so you can compare altitudes over lunch, between lectures or before stand-up.

Why groups like it

• Same puzzle for everyone. One shared climb a day keeps the conversation going.
• Rope teams. Make a private leaderboard for your class, hostel, club or team, and share one invite link.
• Fast. Seven rounds of 25 seconds. It fits in a coffee break.
• No sign-up. Players just pick a climber name. No email, no app download, no ads.
• Rewards original thinking. The most common answer scores least, so the quiet creative thinker can top the board.

Ideas

• Classrooms: a warm-up at the start of a lesson, then discuss the rarest answers.
• Colleges: hostel or society rope teams with a weekly winner.
• Workplaces: a team-building ritual with a Friday shout-out for the week's best trekker.
• Families: a family rope team across cities and time zones.

How to start a rope team

1. Play today's climb at climbascent.com.
2. On your result screen, tap Start a family rope team and give it a name.
3. Share the invite link in your group chat. Everyone who joins appears on your team board.