Articles

Background reading for the games: how to estimate better, how the answers are measured, and the most surprising facts I came across while building the question lists.

• How to Get Better at Estimation Games

  Anchors, orders of magnitude and Fermi breakdowns, plus the scoring math that explains why aiming low pays off.

• 12 Surprising Weights: Clouds, Whales and Formula One Cars

  From a 1.6 g hummingbird to a 500-tonne cloud: the items in Guess The Weight that fool almost everyone.

• The Biggest LEGO® Sets by Piece Count

  The ten largest sets in Guess The Pieces, from the 11,695-piece World Map to Hogwarts Castle.

• Great-Circle Distance Explained

  Why the shortest flight between two cities looks curved on a map, and how the distance is calculated.