JetPunk 2025 - Year in Review

Wow. The year of 2025 has just flown by, as we pass the quart-centennial year of the 2000s. Let's explore what JetPunk entailed for us over the year.

This 6th annual edition details the various changes on JetPunk over the year, including highlights from some of the biggest quizzes created this year, users who joined us this year and also the most popular blogs of the year. At the end, we look at the traffic in 2025, and what we might look forward to in 2026.

JetPunk throughout 2025 saw some major introductions, as well as continuing on the massive introduction of Sudden Death quizzes late last year.

After almost a decade of JetPunk's front page barely changing structure, the biggest update to it in years came in 2025. We got a complete redesign of the right-hand side, a new slogan and new features to go along with it!

The front page is one of those pages on JetPunk which has almost never seen change. Largely, this is because every time a major change was done, the results were pretty negative.

The first iteration of this came from a redesign test by myself over 5 years ago. Looking back, the look was not great and over prioritised the most-taken quiz of the day.

The second iteration of the new front page came early this year from QM and went... terribly. Traffic dropped and most people hated the new design. It was very big and bulky, with horizontal scrollbars and prioritising pictures over descriptions. But, this design was a very important first step to start a conversation on the topic. (Thread here: Changing the home page?)

After discussions with the community, the new design was shut down and QM got to work. It would be another 2 months until the current design was in place, with most of the left-hand side largely the same, User Spotlights (English only) were moved to the right-hand and now became an option. (See thread here: New front page is live!)

Users suddenly had the flexibility to rearrange the front page to be whatever they wanted. And even better, this option can be customised by language too!

Some stats on the new layout... as of now, 21,910 users have customised the front page from the defaults, that's a lot of users! In fact, that's almost 4% of all users that have logged into JetPunk at all this year! Additionally, according to those who have set custom settings, these are the most popular tiles:

A big caveat to note here is that the bottom 3 are NOT in the defaults, meaning someone might just view the settings and change the order only. Speaking of... the most common to be top is Recommended Quizzes (the default), at 95% of the time! The language selector is the next most common to be the top panel, with 0.7%.

As of writing, there are currently 32 users with no panels set on their front page, and also 310 users with all 9 panels set on their front page. The most common number is of course 6 (the default) followed by 5 and 7.

As part of the release of the new Front Page, another feature was added too: Bookmarks.

This feature allows you to bookmark any page on the site using the new option from the Menu dropdown, and this will then display in the "Useful Links" tile on the front page. This means if you have a page which you particular like or access regularly, you can now save it and come back to it as often as you need without using your browser's favourites.

The classic game of Minesweeper. It has already been taken over 5.6 million times, more than any other mini game on JetPunk already, and in fact more than any other quiz this year (except English Countries of the World, currently on 6.4 million).

The minigame has been played by 25,377 registered users, and very likely many more unregistered users as well.

There are daily leaderboards for each of the standard sizes, though of course the Beginner's is the most competitive of them all. That being said, Beginner mode has 1.6m plays, while Intermediate has 680k plays and Expert has a whopping 3.3m plays! It seems Expert is definitely the favourite.

The user's with the most plays across the different game modes currently stands as:

Unfortunately, due to cheaters, I cannot display the fastest times per game mode, as some have supposedly beaten the game in just 0.02s, which just ruins the fun for everybody. Regardless, some additional stats!

And finally, while the table above outlined the total number of games played per user across all modes, these highlight the most winners. Notice that many of these users are actually different to the most games counterpart above... with "writerblocs" coming in the top 2 for every mode!

Ever wanted to send your friend a challenge for a quiz? Multiplayer has been a long-time coming for JetPunk, and this is the best we could come up given our scope.

With JetPunk Challenges, once you have finished a quiz a gold button appears which allows you to create a challenge link and send it to JetPunk friends (or anybody, in fact).

JetPunk friends will then get notified they have received a challenge, and can try to beat your time/score on that quiz.

So far, over 34,500 challenges have been created on JetPunk, with almost 60,000 results having been scored against them!

The biggest challenge of these by far is on the French quiz Pays du Monde, which had a single challenge receive over 14,000 plays! (of which over 13,000 beat the original challenger's score). In fact, almost 9,500 unique quizzes have had challenges created for them - that's more than the number of featured quizzes in English!

See below the table for the quizzes across JetPunk with the most challenges against them!

For a long time, JetPunkers had asked for a reverse of the existing Map Quiz format. That is, instead of showing you an item on a map and selecting the matching answer, you are shown a specific answer and must select the correct item on the map!

After the release of Click quizzes in 2022, this became even more requested as this was essentially allowing users to add an SVG to a Click quiz. Well now the time is finally here, as uses can create a "Map Quiz 2"! Example:

Click the U.S. State on the Map

This format is brilliantly done, and yet still very underutilised (in my opinion). It is quite simple to create, and can use any of the existing JetPunk SVGs as well.

Here's a breakdown of the total takes by Quiz Type:

Of course, as might be expected, Text quizzes still dominate and rule. In fact, the English Countries of the World quiz has more total takes that all formats except Text and Picture quizzes.

Despite these major changes, there were many smaller changes that didn't make the cut in this end-of-year review, such as new languages (Romanian and Catalan), the ability to add map labels, flagging on sudden death quizzes as well as the ability for Premium Members to message other users! Thankfully, they're documented on JetPunk's Change Log for you to enjoy.

In 2025, yet again the top 20 was dominated by Sudden Death quizzes, and in particular by one user: Dimby. Dimby managed 8 of the top 20 new quizzes this year. Better yet, Dimby had the top 4 all to himself, and 6 of the top 7!

So far over 132,000 quizzes have been released on JetPunk in 2025, that's just 5,000 more than last year, and these have amounted to over 24.6 million takes! (An increase of 14% over last year's incredible record).

This also represents over 1.8% of all takes on JetPunk ever, or, perhaps more helpfully, about 8.8% of all takes this year! In fact, over 280 million takes have been added this year, or rather 20% of all takes ever, have come from 2025.

Once again, we will highlight the top quiztakers this year, although the standards have dropped compared to last year, where a user managed to achieve a total level of over 100 in a single year. This time around, the top 3 all managed a level of 77 or above! Which is still very impressive.

As we progress, more and more quizzes are featured and so it becomes technically easier to achieve a high level. That said, to dedicate so much playtime to JetPunk every day is a truly incredible feat.

This year sees the return of the top quizmakers of the year. Once again the top quizmaker this year was actually French!

A new addition for this year, looking at the most liked message board threads of 2025.

Once again, we also bring you the most liked blogs on JetPunk that were released this year. This year there were 914 blogs released (almost 80% up from last year), by a total of 152 unique users.

A new section for this year's review blog. Some statistics around the minigames on JetPunk!

Overall, here's a breakdown of the current total takes of all the minigames as of December 21st 2025:

Looking back over the traffic of 2025, we can see clear changes in the fluctuations over the year of quizzes created and number of users that joined JetPunk.

Analysing this, we see that the number of users that joined JetPunk doesn't correlate to the number of quizzes released. In fact, the number of quizzes is pretty constant all year as per usual, with the exception of a massive peak in late April. As always the influx of users trends towards school and office time (i.e. anything outside school summer holidays), hence why there's a big dip in new users over summer.

Comparing to 2024 below, there is surprisingly not that big a difference, with the exception of 2024's pre-summer peak.

Who knows what might come next year!

As always, in last year's blog some users predicted some things for this year. Let's see how they turned out.

There were a few more predictions, but this was a selection of them. Thanks everybody for making them! Let's see what you come up with for next year :)

What stood out in 2025 to you on JetPunk? What future developments would you like to see in 2026 and beyond? What do you plan to do to improve JetPunk yourself?