🏷️ Price Guess

🕹️ How to play

1. How to play Price Guess: The first item is ready when the page loads: read the name, size and ballpark range, type your price on the built-in keypad and hit the orange submit key. If you miss, you'll see Too high or Too low plus how far off you are (close, way off, wild). Adjust and bid again, up to 3 bids per item.
2. Reading the higher/lower hints: Too high means the real price is lower, so go down; Too low means go up. The colors tell distance: lime is close (within 30%), amber is way off, red is wild (3× the price or more, or a third or less). Every bid drops a marker on the ballpark bar so you can see yourself closing in.
3. How to play with a group: Open the menu and pick Pass & play, enter 2–6 names and choose 3, 5 or 8 items. Hand the phone to whoever is up; they tap "I'm …" to see the item, type a bid and lock it in, and the screen shows only $•••. Once everyone is locked, bids are revealed lowest to highest, then the real price rolls in.
4. How Higher or Lower works: Pick Higher or Lower in the menu. The top card shows its price, the bottom one is hidden: tap the item you think costs more. Right answers grow your streak and bring in a new challenger; one wrong answer ends the run. The price gap shrinks as your streak grows.

📖 Rules & variants

What counts as right: each item has a typical US retail price and a range that counts as correct — a 16.9 oz bottle of water is about $2, and $2–$3 counts. Cheap items get a dollar or two of slack, pricier ones up to 25% either way, so you don't need the exact sticker price and a local sale won't make you wrong.

Solo scoring: a round is 8 items, easiest first — three everyday buys, three occasional buys, two rare big-ticket items or services. Landing in range on your first bid scores 100, second bid 70, third bid 40, and hitting the exact typical price adds a 20-point Bullseye bonus. If all three bids miss but the last one was close, you get 10. The max is 960.

Titles: 720+ is Price Radar, 480–719 Savvy Shopper, 240–479 Occasional Browser, under 240 Never Checks Tags. The results screen lists every bid, the typical price, the range and a one-line note for each item, and your best score on this device is saved automatically.

The ballpark range: each item shows a wide anchor range spanning 6–16×, such as $1–$10. The real price is always inside it but never parked in the middle — its position is randomized — so bidding the midpoint isn't a free win. It just keeps you in the right order of magnitude.

Group rules: everyone bids once per item with no hints (hints would leak information to the next player), and the bidding order rotates each item. In range scores 100, close 50, way off 10, wild 0, exact +20, and whoever is closest to the typical price gets +30 (ties all score it). Most points wins; ties break on closest count, then hits, and full ties share the place.

House rule — don't go over: turn it on in group setup and any bid above the range scores 0 and can't win closest, just like the classic TV showcase. If everyone goes over, nobody gets closest. It makes people bid cautiously and adds a nice layer of bluffing for office parties and family nights.

Higher or Lower rules: the two prices always differ by at least 3× (2× after a streak of 5, 1.4× after 10) and their ranges never overlap, so every answer is clear-cut. One miss ends the run; reaching 30 or running out of challengers is a clean sweep. The results show the pair that got you, with both prices and notes.

About the prices: the bank has 120 original items across food & drink, household, tech, appliances, clothing and services, priced at typical 2026 US retail (grocery, big-box and mainstream online stores, before tax). They are not live prices and use generic names, never brands. You can filter to a single category, and items you've seen recently are skipped first.

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