Ballpark
Nobody knows the answer. Closest guess wins anyway.
Ballpark
How many litres in an Olympic pool? Closest estimate wins — no exact knowledge needed.
- Players
- 2–50
- Session length
- 10–15 min
- Best for
- Mixed-seniority groups, and pub-quiz fans who hate losing pub quizzes
What is Ballpark?
Questions have numeric answers nobody actually knows — the height of something, the population of somewhere, how many of a thing fit inside another thing. Closest guess takes the round.
Because it rewards reasoning rather than recall, it is the most level playing field in the catalogue. Trivia rewards whoever has been alive longest; Ballpark rewards whoever can think.
How to play Ballpark online
- 1
The host starts a session and shares the room code.
- 2
A question with a numeric answer is revealed.
- 3
Everyone submits their best estimate before the timer ends.
- 4
The true answer is revealed alongside every guess.
- 5
Points are scored by how close each guess was.
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Example questions
Every answer is a number nobody knows exactly, so the round rewards whoever reasons best rather than whoever remembers most:
- How many litres of water are in an Olympic swimming pool? — 2,500,000
- How tall is the Eiffel Tower, in metres? — 330
- How many bones are in the adult human body? — 206
- How far is the Moon from Earth, in kilometres? — 384,400
- How many people live in Japan? — about 124 million
When to run Ballpark
A team where trivia keeps being won by the same person
Recall stops mattering. A sensible estimate built from first principles usually beats a half-remembered fact, which redistributes the winning entirely.
An international team
Numbers travel. There is no cultural reference to miss and no wordplay to parse, which makes it one of the two or three fairest games here for a team spread across regions.
Anyone who enjoys pub quizzes but resents losing them
The log-scale scoring punishes confident nonsense in a very satisfying and public way, while still rewarding a near miss.
Ballpark questions
Do players need an account or a download?
No. Only the host needs a Fun Friday account. Everyone else joins from any browser with a 6-character room code and a display name — no app, no install, no IT ticket.
Do you need general knowledge to do well?
Much less than in trivia. Every answer is a number, so a sensible estimate from first principles usually beats a half-remembered fact.
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Run Ballpark with your team this Friday.
Create a session, share the room code, and everyone joins from their browser. No downloads, no IT tickets.
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