Tilt in numbers
Since Tilt started recording rounds on 28 September 2026, players have made 87,254 guesses. From Tilt #44 to #56, all marked with the same scoring rules, that is 45,525 guesses across 65 questions. Here is what they show.
A quick reminder of the scale: every round is worth up to 100 points, a guess within 5% of the answer gets all 100, and the score falls with how many times off you are. The overall average over these puzzles was 50 out of 100. The full table is on how to play.
Which answers are hardest?
| Size of the answer | Questions | Average score |
|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 15 | 65 |
| 10 to 99 | 15 | 54 |
| 100 to 999 | 9 | 37 |
| 1,000 to 60,000 | 13 | 39 |
| Mega (60,000 and up) | 13 | 44 |
The hardest answers were not the giant ones. Questions whose answer was 100 to 999 averaged only 37, lower than the mega round. Small answers are easy because both things fit in the same mental picture, and the mega round is marked more gently because nobody can picture 300,000 of anything. In between, the scoring is strict and the gap is already too wide to see.
Does it get harder through the day?
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average score | 61 | 63 | 40 | 39 | 44 |
Each puzzle starts with two gentle rounds and then the gaps grow. Round five, the mega round, is meant to be the hardest guess of the day, but because it is marked on a gentler curve its average lands near rounds three and four.
The questions that went worst
| Question | Answer | Average score | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many electrons weigh as much as a water molecule? (Tilt #49, round 4) | 33,000 | 14 | 709 |
| How many ladybugs weigh as much as a cherry? (Tilt #45, round 3) | 230 | 16 | 662 |
| How many washing machines weigh as much as a Saturn V rocket? (Tilt #45, round 4) | 39,000 | 18 | 638 |
| How many tarantulas weigh as much as a chicken? (Tilt #46, round 3) | 160 | 23 | 628 |
| How many newborn babies weigh as much as the Eiffel Tower? (Tilt #48, round 5) | 3.1 million | 27 | 793 |
An average under 30 means most players were far off. Most of these involve at least one thing nobody has a feel for by weight, from atoms and insects to a whole tower or a fully fuelled rocket, so the guess has nothing to anchor to and drifts by a factor of ten or more. The questions that fooled almost everyone goes through several of these in detail.
The questions that went best
| Question | Answer | Average score | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| How many blueberries weigh as much as a grape? (Tilt #44, round 1) | 3.6 | 78 | 1,050 |
| How many carrots weigh as much as an American football? (Tilt #47, round 1) | 6.7 | 74 | 735 |
| How many tigers weigh as much as a hippo? (Tilt #48, round 2) | 6.8 | 73 | 851 |
| How many smartphones weigh as much as a herring gull? (Tilt #46, round 2) | 4.7 | 72 | 640 |
| How many Labradors weigh as much as a red kangaroo? (Tilt #44, round 2) | 2.4 | 70 | 1,028 |
The best rounds pair two familiar things within a factor of ten of each other. When the answer is under ten, the crowd is good at this.
Try it yourself
Every question above uses the reference weights on the weights page. If you want a method for the hard ones, read why weight is so hard to guess, then see how you do on today's five.