Getting started

How to play Pricedle

Pricedle is a free daily price-guessing game. Every day you get the same five tech products as everyone else in the world, and ten seconds to guess what each one actually costs. No account, no email, no download — just a display name so the leaderboard has something to call you.

Pick a display name

One box, one time. It's what shows on the leaderboard and it can't be changed later, so choose something you're happy to be seen as. We never ask for an email.

Study the product

You see a photo, the product name and its brand — but never the price. A 3–2–1 countdown gives you a moment to size it up before the clock starts.

Guess before the clock runs out

You get 20 seconds on the first two rounds and 10 on the rest. Type a number and lock it in. The timer is enforced on our server, so refreshing the page won't buy you more time. Leave it blank or run out of clock and the round scores zero.

Repeat for all five rounds

Each round reveals the real price and what you scored, then moves straight on. Five products, 100 points on the table.

Share your grid and build a streak

You finish with an emoji grid you can share without spoiling anything. Come back tomorrow to keep your streak alive — a new puzzle drops at midnight IST.

Scoring

How points are calculated

Scoring is based on percentage error, not the cash difference — so being ₹2,000 out on a laptop is treated far more kindly than being ₹2,000 out on a pair of earphones. Each round is worth up to 20 points, for a maximum of 100 per day.

ResultAccuracyPoints
🎯 BullseyeWithin 10%20
🟩 GreatWithin 1.3×15
🟨 CloseWithin 1.75×10
🟫 OffWithin 3×5
🟥 Way offMore than 3× out0
⬛ No answerTimed out / blank0

Strategy

Five tips to score better

1. Anchor on the category, then adjust. Decide roughly what bracket the product sits in — budget, mid-range or premium — before you worry about the exact number. Landing in the right bracket is usually worth 10–15 points; agonising over the last few hundred rupees rarely is.

2. Percentages beat precision. Because scoring is proportional, a wrong guess on a cheap item costs you far more than the same absolute error on an expensive one. Slow down on the small stuff.

3. Read the brand. The same spec sheet from a premium brand and a value brand can differ by 2–3× in price. Brand is often a stronger signal than the specification itself.

4. Remember these are live retail prices. Prices come from what the product actually sells for, not its launch price or MRP — so discounting on older models matters. If something looks like last year's model, guess lower than you think.

5. Don't overthink the clock. Ten seconds is deliberately short. A fast instinctive guess in the right bracket beats a slow, precise one that never gets locked in.

Archive

Play every past Pricedle

Finished today’s five and want more? Every puzzle since #1 is still playable from the archive — same clock, same scoring, and the prices are the ones that were live on Amazon that day rather than today’s. Open the game above and choose Play past puzzles, or jump straight in at nopturnia.com/pricedle#archive.

Archive rounds are practice runs. They never appear on the daily or all-time leaderboards and they don’t touch your streak, because only the shared daily puzzle is ranked — but you still get one attempt per puzzle, and when you finish one we show you where your score would have placed among the players who took it on the day. It is the fastest way to build the thing the game really tests: a feel for what a category costs before you have seen the price.

Prep

Study up for tomorrow’s round

Pricedle rewards knowing roughly what a category costs before you see the product. These are the same buying guides we write for shoppers — every one of them is a price-band breakdown, which is exactly the instinct the game tests. Each block also links straight to our live price list for that category.

FAQ

Pricedle questions, answered

Pricedle is a free daily price-guessing game from Nopturnia. Each day you're shown five tech products and given a few seconds each to guess what they actually cost — 20 seconds on the first two rounds, then 10. You're scored on how close you get, out of 100, and everyone in the world plays the same five products that day.
It's completely free and there's no account to create. You choose a display name for the leaderboard and start playing — we don't ask for an email address or a password. Your profile is stored in your own browser.
A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight IST (India Standard Time, UTC+5:30). Everyone worldwide gets the same five products on the same day, which is what makes scores comparable. You get one attempt per day.
By how many times off you are, not by absolute difference — so guessing double the real price and guessing half of it score exactly the same. Within 10% of the real price scores 20 points, within 1.3 times it scores 15, within 1.75 times scores 10, and within 3 times scores 5. Anything further out, or a round you don't answer, scores zero. Five rounds means a perfect day is 100 points.
The all-time board ranks by average points per game, not total points — so playing more often doesn't push you up the table on its own; playing well does. You need at least three completed games to appear, which stops a single lucky round outranking a consistent regular. The daily board ranks by that day's score, with ties broken by who was fastest.
That round scores zero and the game moves on to the next product. The ten-second timer runs on our server rather than in your browser, so reloading the page won't reset it — though there's a small allowance for network lag so a slow connection doesn't cost you a round.
Your streak counts consecutive days on which you finished a puzzle — your score doesn't matter, only that you played. Miss a day and it resets to one. Because your profile lives in your browser, clearing your browser data or switching to a different device starts a fresh profile and a fresh streak.
Yes — every Pricedle since puzzle #1 is playable from the archive, with the same clock and the same scoring, and the prices are the ones that were live on Amazon that day. Archive games are practice runs: they don't count towards the daily or all-time leaderboards and they don't affect your streak, because only today's shared puzzle is ranked. You still get one attempt per puzzle, and after each one you're shown where your score would have placed among the people who played it on the day.
They're real retail prices for real products, taken from the same daily price tracking that powers Nopturnia's buying guides — not launch prices or MRP. Answers are in Indian rupees by default, but if you switch currency using the picker in the navigation bar, you can guess in your own currency and it'll be converted for you.
Yes. Pricedle is built mobile-first and works in any modern browser. It's also an installable web app — use "Add to Home Screen" on iOS or "Install app" in Chrome on Android, and it opens full-screen like a native app.

Pricedle is Nopturnia's free daily game. As an Amazon Associate, Nopturnia earns from qualifying purchases made through the product links shown after each round. This never affects which products appear in a puzzle or what the answers are. Read more about how we test and price products.