Out of 24

About Out of 24

Out of 24 is one of the small daily games on Logicers, a site of short learning games. Each day brings one subject and one activity: a platypus and how long it spends dreaming, say, or the people of a country and how long they spend on meals or housework. Everyone who plays that day gets the same question.

The board is a round dial split into the 24 hours of a day. It starts empty, and you drag round it, or tap where you think the arc should end, to shade your guess. When you press Show the real hours, the true arc draws in over yours and the part you got wrong is marked in yellow. An answer within 15 minutes counts as spot on.

The figures come from scientific measurements or from national statistics offices, and each one was read on two websites, both linked under the answer. Where those sources disagree the answer is a band, and any guess inside it is right. A country's figure is an average over everyone, working or not, across all seven days of the week, which is why some of them look low. The animal pictures are silhouettes from PhyloPic, and the flags are drawn by the page.

There is no login, and the page says it uses no tracking and no cookies. Your streak and an album of the days you have played, with a stamp for each, are kept in your own browser, and a share card shows the day's subject and how far off you were without giving the answer away. A practice mode lets you try yesterday's day without it counting. It suits players who like Ballpark-style number guessing and anyone curious about how animals and people spend their days.

How to play Out of 24

1. Open Out of 24 and read the day's subject: an animal or the people of one country, and the activity named under it.
2. Drag round the 24-hour dial to shade how many hours a day you think go on that activity, or tap where you think the arc ends.
3. Press Show the real hours to see the true arc drawn over yours, with the part you missed marked in yellow.
4. Read the sources linked under the answer, then share your result or come back after midnight for the next day.

Tips

• Country figures are averaged over everyone and every day of the week, weekends and people without jobs included, so paid work and housework come out lower than a working weekday.
• Many animals sleep far more than people do, so for an animal and sleep, start well above eight hours.
• Where the sources differ the answer is a band, so aim for the middle of what seems likely rather than an edge.

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