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5–12 October 2026 · Nobel Prize week

Sort history's greatest discoveries before the clock runs out.

Six prizes, one week, 125 years of breakthroughs. Cards fly past — tap the right Nobel category and build a combo. Then dive into the museum, the quiz and the records.

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🏅 634 prizes awarded 👩 68 to women 🧠 6 categories 🎮 4 difficulty modes
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Which Nobel category?

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Nobel Prize week

Choose your difficulty

A card describes a real Nobel-winning achievement. Tap the category it belongs to. Five cards per level, six levels — speed rises each level.

  • 123 … 6 press a number key to answer the matching category.
  • ❄ Freeze buys 6 seconds. ½ 50/50 removes three wrong options. ⤼ Skip moves on.
  • Your best score is saved on this device. Share your result as a link.

🎯 Why this exists

Every October the world waits for six announcements from Stockholm and Oslo. Nobel Rush turns that week into a game you can play in three minutes — and learn something in the process.

📚 Real everything

Every card is a genuine laureate and achievement, drawn from a dataset of more than eighty entries across all six categories, with the fact behind each one.

🔁 Plays differently every time

Cards shuffle on every run, difficulty changes the pace, and your best score is stored on your device. Share a link and dare a friend to beat you.

Right now

Nobel Week 2026: six prizes in eight days

The 2026 Medicine prize is already announced: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won "for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics" — a technique that switches individual nerve cells on and off with light. The rest of the week's prizes follow.

Mon 5 Oct
Medicine
Announced
Tue 6 Oct
Physics
Today
Wed 7 Oct
Chemistry
Upcoming
Thu 8 Oct
Literature
Upcoming
Fri 9 Oct
Peace
Upcoming
Mon 12 Oct
Economic Sciences
Upcoming
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Nobel Rush is an independent fan project and is not affiliated with the Nobel Foundation.