SUMMIT
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Summit is a study game built on one idea: the answer everyone thinks of first is the one you already know. The answers that take real understanding are worth the most, so the game pays you to dig past the obvious.
From your notes to a route
Everything starts with your own material. Paste a chapter, lecture notes or a vocabulary list into the box on the home screen, or add up to ten photos of textbook pages, slides or handwriting, or a PDF. Summit's AI reads all of it and writes a route: seven prompts, each asking you to name one thing.
A good prompt has many right answers. Instead of "What is the powerhouse of the cell?", which has exactly one answer, a Summit prompt looks like "Name an organelle found in plant cells but not animal cells" or "Name a cause of the French Revolution (not taxes)". The parenthetical matters: it rules out the answer everyone would give, so you have to think about the rest of the list.
For every prompt, the AI also builds a hidden answer map, usually 12 to 30 correct answers, each with a few accepted spellings and abbreviations, so "mitochondrion" and "mitochondria" both count.
The climb
You get 25 seconds per prompt to type one answer. A wrong guess doesn't cost points, only time, so if your first idea is wrong you can try again before the clock runs out. When you land a right answer, you see which tier it belongs to and a one-line fact about it, then the next prompt appears.
Seven prompts make a full climb. Your points turn into altitude: every point lifts your climber five metres up the South Col route on Everest, and a perfect 700 tops the mountain at 8,849 metres.
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The answer tiers
Every correct answer sits in one of six tiers, ranked by how many students who studied the same material would think of it.
| Tier | Points | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Base Camp | 10 | The answer almost everyone gives first. |
| Summit Queue | 15 | The pick that feels clever, which is exactly why most of the class reaches for it. |
| Ridgeline | 30 | A solid answer that a good share of students would give. |
| Alpine | 60 | Uncommon but clearly correct: a specific detail from the notes. |
| Death Zone | 85 | Obscure and correct. It takes close reading or connecting two ideas. |
| Summit | 100 | One per prompt: the single best deep cut, a sign of real mastery. |
The Summit Queue is named after the real traffic jams near the top of Everest, where climbers stand in line on the ridge. In the game it is the trap answer: the famous example your teacher highlighted, the term in bold. It feels advanced, but because everyone remembers it, it scores barely more than base camp.
Answers the map doesn't have
No list is complete. If you type something correct that isn't on the map, Summit's route guide checks it against your notes and the subject, then places it in a tier and adds it to the route, so the next person who climbs that route can earn it too. If it is wrong or too vague, you get a short reason instead.
After each prompt you can tap Why? on any answer for a two-sentence explanation of why it's correct and why it sits in its tier. That turns a surprise into something you'll remember.
Your routes and reviews
Every route you make is saved under Your routes on the home screen, private to you. You can climb it again, put its notes back in the box to edit them, share it by link, or delete it. Shared routes keep a scoreboard, and answers that many climbers crowd onto slowly slip a tier, so the rare answers stay rare.
Prompts where you scored under 60 points go into your review queue for the next day. Our guide to spaced repetition explains how that schedule works and why it beats rereading.
What's free
Climbing is free and needs no account. Free players can map three new routes a day; replaying your saved routes and reviews doesn't count toward that. Summit Plus is a one-time purchase that raises the daily limit, unlocks the endless climb through all your routes and adds climber gear.