Guesstimates
A number goes up — chat names the one thing closest to it, and everyone travels at once
Category: Trivia · Players: free-for-all · Status: Beta
A target appears — 67.60M people — with the set it is drawn from. Chat names a member of that set. Not a number: the answer is always a thing, and how close its real value sits to the target is how far you travel.
There is no wrong answer here, which is the point. Naming Kenya when the target wanted Thailand is not a miss, it is a shorter trip. That is what lets a room where nobody knows the number still play — and it is why the scene, rather than a scoreboard, is where the standings live.
Gameplay
The round shows a number and the closed set it belongs to — UN member states by population, chemical elements by atomic mass, Japanese prefectures by area. The target is built so that exactly one member is the best answer, and it never sits past the ends of the set. “Closest to this” is an estimate; “biggest” would just be recall.
Type the name of a member. Your first answer that resolves is locked — you cannot revise it. One entity, one owner: whoever claims a member keeps it, which is what stops the room copying the best answer out of chat.
An answer that does not resolve costs you nothing. Unknown words, ambiguous ones like Korea, and names somebody already took all leave your turn open.
At the reveal every answer is placed against the whole set in one pass, and the field moves together. Your distance is your rank among the set, so a three-hundred-person room reveals as fast as a ten-person one.
The journey is banded: Trail, Climb, Reach, Summit, Apex, and Perfect for the single best answer. Points rise steeply toward the top.
Distance accumulates. Each round adds to your running total rather than replacing it, so a bad round is ground to make back and not a round lost. Fall far enough behind and you scroll out of the frame — the counter says how many are off the pace.
Sets
Seventeen tables ship — countries, US states, Canadian, German, Australian, Austrian and Chinese regions, Japanese prefectures, the periodic table, the NBA, the NFL, MLB, the Bond films, game consoles, social apps, TV shows and music groups — and most carry more than one number, so there are thirty sets to draw from in all.
Mixed is the default: the set changes every round, so a room that knows populations still has to estimate areas, founding years and release dates. One table for a whole session asks the same question eight ways.
A table’s round count is not its size. A session never repeats a round’s best answer, and only a member whose value nobody else shares can be one — so a thirty-team league fields about a dozen rounds, not thirty. The setup form clamps to what the table can actually deliver rather than promising twenty and handing back thirteen.
Hosting
Leave seconds per round at 0 and you reveal when the room has answered; set it and the stage runs the clock. Rounds default to 8.