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Notes from behind the games. Where a number comes from, how to guess it, which other daily games are any good.

• 14 Oct 2026 · 5 min When was the Bronze Age? Players put it 1,500 years too late When was the Bronze Age? Further back than most players think. 4,301 guesses for 15 objects before 1000 BC mostly landed with the Greeks and Romans, or later.
• 12 Oct 2026 · 6 min How tall is a Falcon 9 rocket? Players nearly triple it How tall is a Falcon 9 rocket? 70 m on the pad. 295 players drew it at 194 m, and two other big rockets landed near 200 m too. Every guess, drawn to scale.
• 10 Oct 2026 · 3 min A daily probability game: How likely? is live How likely? is a new daily probability game on roughly. Guess the odds of five real events as one in how many, and see why its archive already has 281 days.
• 9 Oct 2026 · 5 min Do polar bears live in Antarctica? 1 in 4 players said yes Do polar bears live in Antarctica? No, yet 285 of 1,056 players put one there. Antarctic seals did worse: almost half their polar pins landed in the Arctic.
• 6 Oct 2026 · 5 min Suspectle and PuzzleBeat: a murder mystery and six puzzles Suspectle is a free daily murder-mystery logic puzzle you solve without guessing. PuzzleBeat adds six quick daily puzzles. Both free, no sign-in needed.
• 27 Sep 2026 · 6 min How big was the Hindenburg? Players guess 5x too small How big was the Hindenburg? 245 m, longer than three Boeing 747s. 181 of 184 roughly players made it too short, most by a factor of five. Here is why.
• 26 Sep 2026 · 4 min How much did bread cost in 1948? Most guess 5x more How much did bread cost in 1948? 1.9 pence. roughly players missed today's prices both ways, but 74 percent of their misses on old prices were far too high.
• 26 Sep 2026 · 4 min Where people think animals live: 11,324 guesses 11,324 guesses on a world map: two thirds put the West Indian manatee near India, and most send the Humboldt penguin to Antarctica. What the pins show.
• 26 Sep 2026 · 4 min Amountle: guess how many landed in the jar Amountle is the daily game where objects pour into a jar and you get fifteen seconds to call the count. Five rounds, one puzzle for everyone, and no ads.
• 9 Sep 2026 · 4 min Daily games like Wordle but not words: 14 checked Games like Wordle but not words, all opened and played on 9 September 2026: twelve daily games about maps, films, songs and numbers, every one still free.