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Naija Sounds: guess the sound game

Naija Sounds plays a short sound from everyday Nigerian life and asks you what it is. A generator coughing to life, a danfo conductor, a talking drum, a rooster at dawn. For Nigerians abroad it is pure nostalgia, and for everyone it is harder than it sounds.

How Naija Sounds plays on Game Room

1. Open the host's link on your phone, enter your name and turn the volume up.
2. Each question plays a short sound clip on your phone.
3. Choose what made the sound from four options.
4. You have 35 seconds per sound, and faster correct answers score more.
5. The answer is revealed after each sound, then the next one plays.
6. Round points are added to the leaderboard at the end.

The rules

• Each sound clip lasts about 10 seconds.
• There are four possible answers and one is right.
• You have 35 seconds to answer each sound.
• The round is worth up to 1,000 points, shared across all its sounds.
• Correct answers earn between half and all of a sound's points, depending on speed.
• Wrong answers score zero.
• The sound plays on your own phone, not through the video call.

Tips to win

• Close your eyes for the first two seconds and picture where you would hear that sound.
• Use earphones in a noisy room. Small details separate similar sounds.
• The clip is short but you can still answer after it ends. Do not rush a guess you are unsure of.
• Think market, road, home, church, party. Placing the sound narrows the choices fast.

Questions

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