Dropped (Freehand)

Dropped is one of six daily judgement games on Freehand, a small site where each game tests your eye rather than your knowledge. Its sisters ask you to judge angles, cut objects in half, balance shapes, count things and feel time.

In Dropped you see only the first part of a ball's flight against a blue sky: how fast it leaves and how steeply it climbs. Then it disappears near the top of the arc, and you drag a marker along the striped field to where you think it will come down, the way an outfielder reads a fly ball. There are no formulas, no timer and no curve to draw, and a replay shows the throw again if you looked away.

There are five throws each day, the same five for every player, and you get one attempt at the set. When you lock a call, the full arc is drawn and you see how many metres short or long you were and a score out of 10, for a day's total out of 50. A short how-to with a practice throw runs before your first game, and a Play with friends mode lets you play the day's throws against people you invite.

Freehand keeps a scores board of today's and this week's totals across its six games, with a few hundred players a day. The site has no ads and no sign-up, and is kept going by donations. It suits players who like quick tests of the eye such as angle and cutting games, and takes a minute or two a day.