Monday, November 9
Three games, picked for everyone today. Surf all three and the judges' scores add up to one total out of 30.
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Pipeline, North Shore, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi
Eight basketball players, eight stats: height, points, rebounds, titles and more.
Paddle outG-Land, Grajagan, East Java, Indonesia
A few seconds a prompt to name one thing nobody else will. Rare answers ride; obvious ones get washed.
Paddle outTeahupo'o, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Four questions with one true number each: how many, how far, how big. Guess, and see how close you got.
Paddle outThe other 7 breaks, free to surf any time. They don't count toward today's Daily Surf.
Huntington Beach, California
Eight companies, eight categories: sales, profit, heritage and more, from each one’s latest 10-K.
Paddle outSkeleton Bay, Namibia
Eight animals, eight stats: top speed, lifespan, weight, venom and more.
Paddle outNazaré, Portugal
Eight landmarks, eight stats: height, age, visitors a year, rainfall and more.
Paddle outMacaronis, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia
Eight foods, eight stats: calories, protein, sugar, vitamin C and more, gram for gram.
Paddle outBurleigh Heads, Gold Coast, Australia
Eight cities, eight stats: population, age, elevation, rainfall and more.
Paddle outPuerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Eight historical figures, eight stats: lifespan, fame, things named after them and more.
Paddle outJeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Four price tags, one true number each: big builds, auction records, everyday prices, famous deals. Guess what it cost.
Paddle outdaily.surf is ten small puzzle games with a surfing twist, free to play in your browser. Each game has its home at a real surf break, from Huntington Beach in California to Teahupo'o in Tahiti, and every round you play becomes a trick on one wave. At midnight Pacific time every game gets a new puzzle, the same for everyone, so you can compare notes with friends over breakfast.
Companies, Animals, Landmarks, Food, Cities, Historical figures and Hoops all play the same way. You see eight items and eight categories, like top speed, height or calories, and the items come up one at a time. Put each one where you think it scores best. Every placement is final and each category takes one item, so the skill is saving a good spot for the item that needs it most. Every figure comes from a public source, credited in the results.
The guessing games ask four questions a day, each with one true number: how many teeth a working-age adult still has, say, or what a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for at auction. Type your guess and the answer comes up with its source and, most days, a line of napkin math that shows how you could have reasoned it out. A guess scores by how many times off it is, so half the answer and double it are the same miss, and anything 10 times off or more scores nothing.
Secret Spot turns the usual quiz around: the rarest right answer wins. Each day brings seven open prompts, like naming a bird or a breakfast cereal, with 25 seconds to type one answer to each. Answers are checked against a hand-built answer sheet and typos are forgiven. The fewer people who think of yours, the more it scores, from 1 point for a party wave up to 10 for a true secret spot.
Every item, question or prompt scores up to 10, and the judges score your whole heat out of 10: the average of your rounds. Five judges hold up cards, the highest and lowest are dropped, and the middle three always average to your score. Each day three of the games are picked as the Daily Surf, and their heats add up to one total out of 30, with a streak for every day you finish all three. The rest are Free surf, there whenever you want more.
Curious about an old puzzle? The archive keeps every past puzzle with its answers, how to reason them out and where each number comes from. For the full rules and every category, read How to play, and to get better at the guessing games or meet the surf breaks behind them, try our Learn guides.