Vaguely Right

About Vaguely Right

Vaguely Right is a small browser game made by Minisani. Each round shows a spectrum between two opposite words, Calm to Stressful or Cheap to Luxurious, with a target zone somewhere along it. The zone is scored 2, 3 and 4 points from its edges to its centre. Your job is to name one thing that sits on that spot: a job interview for a point near the stressful end, say.

Once you lock in a clue, a computer judge named Jev decides where it goes on the scale and shows the result, so you see at once whether your idea of how stressful or how luxurious something is matches the judge's. You cannot use either of the two end words as your clue, and the judge turns down clues it cannot picture. Three refusals lose the round.

There are five rounds a day with one clue each, the same targets for every player, and a new set at midnight UTC. A day streak counts the days you play, and you can share your score or the clues you gave. Away from the daily, Practice gives extra rounds on random targets (ten clues a day, outside your streak), Past days replays the last seven days, Hand asks you to drag seven things onto five targets, and Where did it land? has you guess where the judge put other players' clues. An optional email sends the daily puzzle each morning.

It suits players who like party games about judging degrees and shared intuition, the kind where you give a clue to point at a spot on a scale, but want a quick solo version to play once a day.

How to play Vaguely Right

1. Open today's game and read the first spectrum: two opposite words with a target marked between them.
2. Think of one thing whose place on that scale matches the target, without using either end word.
3. Type it and press Lock in.
4. See where the computer judge places your clue and how many points it scores: 4 in the centre of the target, 3 and 2 further out, none off target.
5. Play all five rounds, then share your score and come back after midnight UTC for the next set.

Tips

• Pick something everyday and concrete: the judge refuses clues it cannot picture, and three refusals cost the round.
• Aim for the middle of the scale with ordinary things and save extreme examples for targets near the ends.
• Use Practice to learn how the judge reads a scale before you spend your one daily clue.
• Play Where did it land? to see how the judge scored other players' clues; it shows where its sense of a scale differs from yours.

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