Games
Rough Draft: five familiar things, one surprising order.
How good is your sense of scale? Rough Draft asks you to order familiar things by a stated measurement, using intuition, rough estimates and comparisons.
How to play
- Read “What counts?” for the measurement and direction. One item starts the board as a reference; its position among all five items is still unknown.
- Place the next item by tapping a line above, below or between the items already on the board.
- See the grading and correction, then use the corrected board for your next decision. Four placements complete the five-item paper.
Scoring
Each insertion tests the new item against the items already on the board. Those decisions add up to ten matchups. Your grade is the percentage you got right, from 0 to 100; an exact placement gets every matchup for that decision right. The result also shows how many of your four placements were exact.
A useful guess beats obscure trivia
Papers compare things like weight, height, length, duration, counts and prices. The aim is to give you something to reason about, with a comparison that makes the answer worth seeing. Short item context clarifies a model or definition without revealing its value.
The daily paper and the reveal
Everyone gets the same five items and reveal order on the same date. The paper changes at midnight Eastern, including daylight saving time. Progress and completion are saved for that browser, so refreshing or moving between the homepage and the /v2 link keeps the same daily game.
Numbers stay hidden until you finish. Then you see the full order, a short takeaway and optional facts and source notes. Sharing includes the common edition and score without item names or answers. No account is needed.
Measurements, sources and corrections
Each paper uses a stated unit and scope, with source links and material measurement caveats available after completion. Estimates are labeled where needed. If a value or definition seems wrong, include the paper number and the concern in a correction report.