A command-line quiz game inspired by the popular TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati. The game fetches live trivia questions from an online API and lets players answer questions to climb the prize ladder.

• 🎯 Dynamic Trivia Questions using an API
• 🪜 KBC Prize Money Ladder
• 🎮 Interactive CLI Gameplay
• 🧠 Difficulty Levels
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
• 🃏 Lifelines
  • Skip Question (once per game)
  • 50-50 (removes two wrong answers)
• 💰 Real-time Prize Tracking
• 🎨 Colored Terminal UI using rich

Enter your name: Vraj

Welcome to Kaun Banega Crorepati

Select Difficulty Level
1. Easy
2. Medium
3. Hard

Enter choice: 2

Question 1 for ₹1000

Which planet is known as the Red Planet?

A. Venus
B. Mars
C. Saturn
D. Mercury

Lock your answer (A/B/C/D | skip | quit | 5050):

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/kbc-cli-game.git
cd kbc-cli-game

python -m venv .venv

Activate:

Windows

.venv\Scripts\activate

Linux / Mac

source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

python main.py

• requests
• rich

Install manually if needed:

pip install requests rich

kbc-cli-game
│
├── main.py
├── trivia_api.py
├── requirements.txt
└── README.md

• Questions are fetched from an online trivia API.
• Internet connection is required.
• The Skip lifeline removes the current question without increasing the prize level.

• Store player scores
• Worldwide rankings

• MongoDB Atlas support
• Persistent score tracking

• Signed score submissions
• Game session validation

• Ask the Audience
• Phone a Friend
• Replace Question

• Progress bars
• Better layouts with Rich

• Games played
• Highest score
• Accuracy rate

• Compete with friends
• Live leaderboard updates

Pull requests are welcome! If you'd like to improve gameplay or add features, feel free to fork the repo.

GNU General Public License v3.0

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