About

Games about how big things are.

Areabake is built around one question: how big is that, really? Every game on the site is about magnitude. How heavy, how fast, how far, how many, how much. Nothing here is a matter of opinion, and nothing is scored on taste.

The games

The DailyFive things, one hidden measurement, three tries. After each attempt you learn how many are in the right place, but never which ones, so knowing a bit gets you close and reasoning gets you the rest of the way. One puzzle a day, the same one for everyone.BiggerHigher or lower, with the categories deliberately mixed, so a bowling ball can be weighed against a penguin and a skyscraper measured against a moon. The gap between the two narrows the longer your run gets.FortuneEnter what you earn and see where you land among the eight billion people alive, and against the average income of every century there are records for. Every figure is sourced and the method is on the page.

The numbers

Puzzles are generated from a curated dataset of 403 measured quantities across 17 categories. Every value is objective and checkable. If a quantity is genuinely disputed in the literature, it is left out rather than fudged.

The generator enforces spacing: no two adjacent items in a day's answer are close enough that ordering them would be a coin flip. A puzzle you lose should be a puzzle you could have reasoned out, not one that punished you for not knowing which of two near-identical numbers was fractionally larger.

Sources are shown under the answer once the puzzle is finished. Found something wrong? Tell me and it gets fixed.