Magnitudle

Magnitudle is a home for daily estimation games. The main game asks for one real world number, like a distance or a population, and you get one guess on a log scale.

Why a log scale

Magnitudle asks for one real number, like a distance or a population, and you place your guess on a logarithmic scale. On that scale each step is ten times bigger than the last. Guessing 2,000 when the answer is 1,000 is close. Guessing 10,000 is a full step off. It rewards getting the size right, not the exact digits.

Anchors that help

The world has about 8 billion people.
Around the Earth is about 40,000 km.
The Moon is roughly 384,000 km away.
A large city has millions of people, a small town thousands.

Size It Up and Pop Culture

The same site has Size It Up, where you resize one object next to another, and a Pop Culture game. All are free in the browser and the app. If a game is not loading, it is usually the site being busy, so try again a little later.

Before you start Magnitudle

Think in powers of ten first: is it hundreds, thousands or millions?
Compare with something you know, like a city's population.
Keep your streak by playing every day.

Playing Magnitudle step by step

Read the question
You are asked for a real number, such as how far or how many.
Place your guess
Put it on a scale that grows by powers of ten.
See how close you were
Being in the right range matters more than the exact number.
Try Size It Up
Scale objects against each other in the sister game.