About Close Enough

The game

One new case every day at midnight Eastern Time: five questions about the real world, 25 seconds each. Answer with a range. If the true number lands inside it, you score, and the tighter the range, the more you score. Miss and you get 0. Rounds 3 and 4 count double and the last round counts four times, so a perfect day is 1,000.

Every answer you catch fires your rocket farther out: low orbit, the Moon, Mars, a nebula, a black hole, and somewhere past all of it, a surprise. Miss and the engine sputters.

"People said" shows what the public guessed when a published survey asked the same question (for example Gapminder and Ipsos surveys).

Where the numbers come from

Every answer comes from a published source, shown under each question when it's revealed. Every case is checked by a person before it goes live. Main sources:

• Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0), including data from Gapminder and the UN
• United Nations: World Population Prospects, World Urbanization Prospects, UNESCO, FAO, UNEP
• World Bank: World Development Indicators, Global Findex, Poverty and Inequality Platform
• WHO / UNICEF, ITU, GSMA Intelligence, IEA / Tracking SDG7, Ember, USGS, NIH, peer-reviewed studies

Spotted a number that looks wrong? Email andrewgmaxwell123@gmail.com and it gets checked.

Privacy

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• Your streak and today's result are saved only in your own browser. Clearing your browser data erases them.
• The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, which keeps standard short-term server logs to run and protect the site.
• The pixel fonts load from Google Fonts, so Google sees a standard web request (like your IP address) when the page loads.
• We don't collect your name, email, or location, and we don't sell anything about you.