Guess the size, the place, the year. Then see how close you were.
Every game gives you five rounds a day. You drag, pull or draw a guess, and the sheet shows the real number and how far off you were.
FreeNo account requiredMade in Switzerland
FreeNo account requiredMade in Switzerland
Made by one person
I’m Esteban. I make roughly on my own, in Switzerland.
One desk, next to my day job: the design, the code, the data, the words. I wanted a daily game with nothing to memorise, so I built one. It is free, you don’t need an account, and I plan to keep it that way. roughly is the first game from Hired Hands Games, my small studio.
By day I build websites at Vitren and do SEO/GEO. Whether it is about a game, a wrong number or a website of your own, write to esteban@roughly.is.
A catalogue of my own
Every game draws from a catalogue I keep myself: more than 2,000 entries, each with a source, each checked before it goes in. If I cannot find a source for a number, the round does not exist. These are a few of the entries. The catalogue keeps growing, and every image in it is credited on the credits page.
- Woolly mammoth
- RMS Titanic
- Chimpanzee
- Space Shuttle
- Eiffel Tower
- Megalodon
- Stegosaurus
- Blue whale
One round, as it resolves:
14,729 km too far north
A pin on Greenland, where most people put penguins. The emperor penguin breeds on the sea ice of Antarctica. No penguin lives north of the equator. Source ›
Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata for most of it, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Natural Earth, Wikimedia’s pageview statistics and Open Food Facts for the rest.
Write me
For anything roughly: a number that feels wrong, a game you want, a source that belongs in there. Every mail lands with me, and I answer.
And for the other thing I do. If you want a website, or have one that nobody finds, the same address is the right one. I build websites at Vitren and do SEO/GEO. A mail like the one on the right is all it takes.
Esteban esteban@roughly.isBuilt, and live
roughly is in motion. This is what has come out of the list so far, newest first. What comes next, and the order the supporters set, sits on the roughly+ page.
- Shipped
- Rooms: podium and highlights11 Oct 2026 After a room, the podium rises place by place, with the full ranking, the best moments and an end image to share.
- A calmer end of day11 Oct 2026 Your rounds come back in quietly, and the celebration is saved for a really good day.
- How likely?9 Oct 2026 Game twelve: guess the odds of things that really happen.
- Sound and music7 Oct 2026 Sounds for every reveal and calm music, both switchable in the gear menu.
- Everything shipped, and what comes next ›