Price Games

A price-guessing arcade built entirely on live Amazon listings, where the number you are chasing is the one a shopper would actually pay today. Seven modes share the same catalog and reshuffle it in different ways: bid against the table, call higher or lower, rank two items, stop a rising price, match four products to four prices, fill a budget, or just name the figure outright. The products are gloriously random. In one sitting the catalog served a unicorn-print kids' water bottle, surgical steel huggie hoops, a resurrection scene figurine set and a Topps 2023 baseball hanger box, each stamped with its shop department.

1. Pick from the mode grid on the front page, or hit the Daily Challenge card at the top which locks in one mode and one product set for everybody that day.
2. A product photo, its full listing title and its department appear. Everything that would give the price away is stripped out.
3. Set your number. Most modes use a slider paired with a text field, and the slider's two ends are themselves a clue: they bracket the answer.
4. Press Lock In Price. The reveal shows the real price, your number, the gap between them in dollars, a percentage, and a points award.
5. Roll into the next round with Next Round, or follow the See it on Amazon link if the product itself got you curious.

Price guessing lives or dies on whether the numbers are real, and this one settles that by pulling straight from live Amazon product pages, right down to the affiliate link on the reveal so you can go check. What lifts it above a quiz is the mode spread: the same catalog is a solo speed test in Precision, a bluffing exercise in Bidding War where the bots bid before you and box you in, and a totally different kind of arithmetic in Budget Builder. And the reveal screen genuinely roasts you, which is more entertaining than any score ever is.

The reveal screen is where the game finds its voice. Miss badly and it hands you a sarcastic title with a fireworks of wincing emoji: guessing $24.99 on an $8.99 pop-up birthday card earned the verdict Technically a Number, 178.0% off, then laid out Actual Price $8.99, Your Guess $24.99, Difference $16.00 over, and awarded a flat +0. Bidding War judges by Price is Right rules instead, so the panel reads Overbid! 5.9% over above an ACTUAL PRICE of $16.98 and then lines up every bidder with their own margin, $1.48 under, $9.48 under, $1.01 over. Going over is fatal to the round no matter how close you were.

Bidding War

The auction mode. You and up to four others bid in a set order shown as a Bidding Order list before the product appears, each with a countdown on their turn, and closest without going over takes the round.

Precision

The purest version: one product, 30 seconds, name the exact price. The clock only starts when you interact, so you get to read the listing title properly first.

Higher or Lower

Call whether the real price sits above or below the last one.

Comparison

Two products side by side, pick which one costs more or less.

Riser

A price counts upward on screen and you have to stop it before it passes the real one.

Price Match

Four products, four prices, pair them up correctly.

Budget Builder

You are given a budget and have to pick a set of items that fits inside it.

Multiplayer rooms

Any mode can be opened as a room with a shareable link and code. The lobby lets you set round count, filter categories, add a password, and stock the table with bots at Easy, Medium or Hard.

• The slider bounds are free information. On the birthday card they ran $2.00 to $31.50, on the Topps box $5.00 to $70.00. That spread tells you what order of magnitude the game thinks the item lives in before you have guessed anything.
• In Precision, read the full listing title before you touch the slider. The clock is explicitly held at Timer starts when you interact, and Amazon titles bury the useful details late, things like 14oz or 67 Cards that decide whether you are looking at a $9 item or a $30 one.
• Bidding War punishes bravery in one direction only. An overbid scores nothing however close it was, so when you are bidding late and someone has already parked on your number, drop a dollar under rather than a dollar over.
• Spend the Precision hint on the categories you have no feel for. It does not tell you the price, it just clamps the slider to a tighter window, which converts a wild stab into an educated one.
• Remember these are Amazon retail prices, not what the thing is worth. Multipacks, licensed prints and anything in Collectibles all price well above intuition.