How Long Would You Last in the Long Night?

How it works

Nine questions arrive one at a time, each with four answers, and they are about the unglamorous parts of a long winter: what you would ration first, how you behave in the sixth boring week, whether you would go outside for firewood in the dark, and who you would still be feeding in the fourth moon. A larger bank sits behind them, so a second run asks different things.

No answer leaves your browser and none of it is kept. There is no login, nothing to install and no waiting — the page arrived with everything it needs, which is also why it works with the network off.

The six honest answers

The First Night — you would be a casualty of the excitement rather than of the cold.
Nine Days — long enough to help, not long enough to plan. The forager's death.
One Moon — the wall-watcher: excellent for a month, and then a month is up.
All Winter — the quartermaster. Nobody sings about you and everybody ate.
The Last One Awake — still going after there is no obvious reason to.
You Would Not Die — you would change sides, and you would have reasons.

Why the sixth week is the real test

Almost anyone can be impressive on the first night of a catastrophe. Adrenaline is generous and everybody is briefly their best self. What actually kills people in a long winter is the middle of it — the boredom, the small unfairnesses about firewood, the slow arithmetic of stores against mouths, the person who was heroic in week one and is now a problem in week six. So the questions here deliberately skip the drama and ask about the tedium, because the tedium is what the answer is made of.

Passing your result on

The moment you finish, your answer is written into the page address. That link opens on the same card for anybody you send it to, with no account and no sign-up between them and it. There is a downloadable image of the card as well, drawn inside the page, for wherever a picture works better than a link.

This is fan-made, and unofficial

This quiz is about a legendary winter in a fictional world. It is a free, unofficial fan quiz — an unofficial fan tribute, made for fun. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, or any official Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, or Tales of Dunk and Egg property.

Nothing on this page is quoted from any book or television series; the questions, the outcomes and the readings were all written for it. Iron Realms — the strategy game the rest of this site is about — is an original fantasy world with its own map, its own houses and its own art, and has no connection to Westeros. This corner is kept separate on purpose, and nothing in it should be read as suggesting otherwise.

Where the rest of them are

Its opposite number is the wedding quiz, which asks the same thing about four seconds instead of four months. The Westeros — ASOIAF & Game of Thrones section lists every quiz and tool in this wing, and the fan tributes hub has the rest of the corner. If you would rather play something than answer questions, Iron Realms is free and runs in a browser tab.