PricedIn

One product, six prices, fifty years apart. PricedIn picks a single item with a long enough retail history to be worth tracking (one puzzle ran a Red Lobster Maine lobster dinner, quoted as a US national average for a 1¼ lb portion) and asks what it cost in 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006, 2016 and 2026. The twist that makes it a game rather than a quiz is the anchor: before anything else you pick one of the six years, and PricedIn gives you that price for free. The other five are yours to work out from it, which means the whole puzzle is really about how fast you think prices climbed between two dates.

1. The product name appears with six year buttons underneath. Choose the year you feel you know best. That price is filled in and the button grid turns into the guessing grid.
2. Type a price into any of the five remaining year fields and press Enter. Each year is judged on its own, so you can chip away at them in any order.

Inflation is one of those things everybody claims to have a feel for until they are asked to put a number on it, and PricedIn is built to expose exactly that gap. Tying all six answers to one product turns each puzzle into a small piece of economic history you can argue with, and the anchor mechanic is a genuinely elegant piece of design: it hands you the one fact you need and then makes the whole game about what you do with it. The three-try limit with nothing but a direction arrow keeps it honest, because 10% either side of a 1976 restaurant price leaves very little room to fish.

Minimal, and cumulative in a way that rewards patience. A wrong guess leaves an arrow under the field and adds itself to a running Prev line, so after two attempts on the same year you are reading something like Prev: $100.50 ↓ • $150.25 ↓ and can see your own bracket closing. There is no closeness meter and no warmer or colder, just direction, which keeps the 10% window genuinely hard to feel for. When the grid is finished the whole ladder is laid out year by year with an ACCURACY percentage underneath, plus Copy Results and a Share for Bonus button, and a weekly recap slides up behind it.

Today's product

The default and the only live puzzle. Six years, one anchor of your choosing, three tries per year.

Rolling week replay

The recap panel lays out the last seven dates as a strip and lets you go back and play the days you missed, so a skipped puzzle is recoverable for about a week.

Weekly standings

Your daily accuracies feed an average across the rolling week, which earns a weekly title (the bottom rung is Price Novice) and a standing expressed as a percentile.

• Choose your anchor for leverage, not for comfort. Picking a middle year like 1996 or 2006 leaves you interpolating in both directions; picking 2026, the year you actually shop in, gives you a price you can trust absolutely but forces you to walk fifty years backwards from it.
• Spend your first guess on a year adjacent to your anchor. A confirmed 1986 next to a known 1976 gives you a real slope you can extend to the far end of the grid, which is much better than three lonely stabs at 2026.
• Watch the 10% band. On a cheap decade that window is barely a dollar wide, so with only three tries you cannot bisect your way in from a wild opening number the way you would in a normal higher-lower game. Open near where you actually believe the answer is.