JetPunk 2024 - Year in Review

Here we come to the end of another year. 2024 has been and gone, and it is once again time to reflect on what JetPunk had in store this year.

This 5th annual edition brings some new sections to the mix, as we detail 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 2024, and what we might look forward to in 2025.

JetPunk throughout 2024 saw some major introductions, including one which is still reshaping JetPunk's landscape just 2 months after its introduction!

This new quiz type was only introduced just under 2 months ago, and yet its impact has already been incredible. It all started back in early September with a quiz from Dimby, which would cause a monumental change in the shape of a brand new quiz type:

Country Elimination by Category - Sudden Death!

The concept was simple: Make one wrong move and the game ends.

This concept had not existed on JetPunk before, and it was well overdue for somebody to figure it out. The popularity of this quiz and many others Dimby had made inspired Quizmaster to make the format something native on JetPunk, with its entirely dedicated quiz format.

That format released on November 8th 2024, and since then has been a spark on JetPunk - the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Pandemic. In fact, here's some quick facts about Sudden Death:

One particular point of interest in there, the top days list for a single quiz. Let's look at the Top 10 from before November 8th 2024. Note that Countries of the World (and the French Pays du monde) are excluded from this list.

As you can see, there's quite a variety of quizzes included from a long range of dates as well. So, let's see how that table has changed in just 45 days:

Suddenly, half the list is Sudden Death quizzes, during November and December which are traditionally lesser-performing months for JetPunk. It'll be very exciting as to what happens come January and traffic usually picks up (more on that below).

Not long after the introduction of Sudden Death, a similar concept was introduced on Text and Picture quizzes: Whammies. This allows you to add "anti typeins" which, when triggered have the chance to end the quiz early. A good example of this is Countries of Europe by Flag - Whammies. It will be very interesting to see where this smaller addition can go!

Every single day there is now a new challenge on JetPunk: Daily Trivia.

This challenge, first introduced in May 2024, contains 10 multiple-choice general trivia questions. But - there's a catch! - the longer you take to answer the questions the fewer points you'll receive for getting it right.

This feature also contains a Friends leaderboard so you can compete with your JetPunk Friends every day to see who can top the board. Try it out here: Daily Trivia

You can also submit your own questions to daily trivia for review as well via the link above.

The daily trivia quizzes have amounted to over 1 million takes in total since their creation, with the most popular being the most recent, unsurprisingly given the rise in traffic!

As of the time of writing, the easiest day was:

October 26th, 2024 with an average of 8.16 / 10

and the hardest day:

November 12th, 2024 with an average of 5.24 / 10

It'll be interesting to see what the new year brings us with this feature.

In an effort to move away from Reddit, Quizmaster introduced the JetPunk Message Board. This is a place for users to ask questions, make suggestions and comments, all without ever having to leave JetPunk's website!

Despite this only being introduced in September of this year, it's had a plethora of activity already.

So far, the features of this are limited, but it has already proven to be popular and very useful.

Here's the stats so far:

There's been so many new features this year that this one got pushed further down. However, it is still worthy of a mention. Quiz Playlists are a feature requested a few times over the years, but never implemented until now. Having been introduced all the way back in June 2024, this feature allows you to create a playlist, add any quizzes from across JetPunk to it, and then share a link to it with your friends. You can also see a list of them from a user's profile, for example this is a link to Insaniot's Playlists.

Here's some stats about Playlists so far:

Despite these major changes, there were many smaller changes that didn't make the cut in this end-of-year review, such as TWO new badges, the option to disable SVG zooming, the unfortunate closing of the JetPunk shop and more! Thankfully, they're documented on JetPunk's Change Log for you to enjoy.

In 2024 the top 20 had some variety in content, with the exception of one noticeable trend... 11 of the top 20 were Sudden Death quizzes! (Despite only being released 2 months ago).

In order to ensure variety and fairness, we will limit the following top 5 to a maximum of 1 per user (they are still all in the overall top 10). We also limit only to English quizzes again, since #1 was (yet again!) a French quiz (Pays européens - Tapez la première lettre) by user Jerry928! Receiving almost 200k takes in less than a year! On top of that, French quizzes encompassed 10 of the top 20 quizzes. There will be a French "Yearly Review" which encompasses those soon. 

In fact, the top 20 was flooded this year since only 3 quizzes were English and not Sudden Death - incredible!

So far over 127,000 quizzes have been released on JetPunk in 2024, that's 37,000 more than last year, and these have amounted to over 21.1 million takes! (Incredibly this is almost double last year!).

This also represents over 1.9% of all takes on JetPunk ever, or, perhaps more helpfully, about 8.6% of all takes this year! In fact over 250 million takes have been added this year, or rather 23% of all takes ever, have come from 2024. This shows that JetPunk is still growing very strongly.

And also, despite Sudden Death only existing for 2 months so far... it already accounted for 17% of the entire year's takes!

Once again, we will highlight the top quiztakers this year, with the top 3 users having at least level 79, and incredibly the top user surpassing level 100! I believe this is a new record for the most points achieved in the first year (at least since I've been making these yearly reviews).

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 not from English quizzes! In fact only 1 of the top 8 new quizmakers has their language set to English, all the rest were French and German. Even then that user's biggest quizzes are in French and Spanish, despite them being Greek!

Once again, we also bring you the most liked blogs on JetPunk that were released this year. This year there were 583 blogs released (so far), by a total of 114 unique users.

There were far more than these 3 though, they were just the top ones by user over 30 likes.

It should be noted that the top 4 blogs were comprised entirely of Quizmaster's blogs and my blogs, mostly announcements about new things.

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 22nd 2024:

Looking back over the traffic of 2024, 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 2023 below, there is surprisingly not that big a difference. We can see the post-summer pickup was stronger this year, especially thanks to Sudden Death above. But also we consistently had more quizzes created per week all year, with the one week in late April having double its comparator last year.

Several of the changes this year were unplanned before the year started, including the Sudden Death quiz type. 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 2024 to you on JetPunk? What future developments would you like to see in 2025 and beyond? What do you plan to do to improve JetPunk yourself?