Gauge — the daily eye-measure gauntlet
How well can you trust your eyes? Gauge is a free browser estimation game: five quick rounds, the same for everyone each day. No signup, no clock-watching menus — a full daily takes about a minute.
The five rounds
| COUNT | A cloud of dots flashes for a moment, then vanishes. Drag left/right to set how many you think you saw, then lock it in. Small clouds are scored gently — even a wild guess earns a red score, not a zero. |
| POUR | Fill the glass to an exact percentage — but the glass has no markings. Drag up and down to pour. |
| ANGLE | Set the dial to an exact angle with no protractor. Drag around the hinge to swing the arm. 0° is the flat gray line pointing right; 180° points left — angles open counter-clockwise, so 90° is straight up. |
| HOLD | Press and hold for an exact number of seconds — with no clock. Release when your inner metronome says so. (Slipped and released instantly? Releases under a second are forgiven — just press again.) |
| LENGTH | A line is shown at an angle. Stretch your own line to match its length exactly. |
Scoring
Every round scores your accuracy from 0 to 100% — the closer your estimate, the higher the score. Your daily result is the average of the five rounds, plus a five-square trail (🟩 sharp · 🟨 close · 🟥 way off) you can copy and send as a challenge — the link carries your score, so a friend who opens it is dared to out-eye you. Come back tomorrow for a fresh gauntlet and build a daily streak — beat yesterday's score to sharpen it, and if you miss a day your personal best is saved and waiting to be beaten. The menu shows your last seven days as a chain of squares — each finished gauntlet fills one, and today's pulses until you play. Don't break the chain. After you finish, the results screen shows today's rivals — how many players ran the gauntlet in the last 24 hours, the best accuracy among them, and where your eye ranks. Rivals are always anonymous: a count and a score, never names or accounts.
Controls
| Adjust | Drag with mouse or finger — every round is one gesture. |
| Confirm | Tap the LOCK IN button. |
| HOLD round | Press and hold anywhere; release to answer. |
Modes
Daily gauntlet: 5 seeded rounds, identical for every player worldwide that day. One attempt — your first instinct is the game. Mid-gauntlet progress is saved if you get interrupted.
Practice — the skill trainer: endless rounds, your way. Pick all five mixed or drill a single skill — count, pour, angle, hold or length. Gauge keeps a lifetime accuracy average per skill (from both daily and practice rounds, stored only in your browser), so the picker doubles as your eye profile: it shows your average and round count for each skill, and flags your weakest round from today's gauntlet. After a daily, jump straight into training whichever skill let you down. Each drill also climbs a 12-level difficulty ladder per skill: a green round (85%+) levels you up, a red round drops you back one, and your best level is saved. Higher levels of COUNT flash bigger dot clouds for less time; higher levels of pour, angle, hold and length demand tighter and tighter precision to stay green. Every round you finish — daily or practice — also earns eye-rank XP equal to its accuracy: climb a 12-rank ladder from fresh eye through carpenter's eye and hawk eye up to the calibrated. Your rank only ever goes up, and it lives in your browser — no account needed.
Tips
- Counting: don't count — chunk. Estimate one quadrant and multiply.
- Angles: 90° is your anchor. Judge everything as an offset from a right angle.
- Seconds: count "one-mississippi" at your natural pace — most people run fast under pressure.
- Pouring: look at the empty space, not the filled part. The gap lies less.
FAQ
Is it free? Do I need an account? Free, no account, no install needed. It runs in any modern browser, on phones and school Chromebooks alike. If you'd like the daily one tap away, you can add Gauge to your home screen from your browser's menu. No download, no store, it's the same game in an app-shaped wrapper.
Is it the same puzzle for everyone? Yes — the daily gauntlet is seeded by the date, so your 73% and your friend's 88% came from identical targets.
Does it work in my language? Practically yes — the rounds are numbers and shapes, not words.
Who made this? Gauge is an original game by Yuki Andersen. More free games: Tempo, Prism, Glimpse, Wordpull, Floe, Ballast, Well Duel, Well Putt, Wellspring, Keel, Scout, Weft, Helm, Sling.
