Pricele — guess the price of everyday things around the world. A free daily price guessing game.

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Guess what today's item costs in today's country. You get five tries, and each miss tells you whether to go higher or lower.

A new price puzzle every day

Pricele is a free daily game about what things cost around the world. Every day you get one country and one everyday item: a Big Mac in Norway, a cappuccino in Japan, a litre of petrol in Egypt. You try to guess the price in US dollars. You get five guesses, with higher-or-lower hints along the way, and you win if you land within 5% of the real price. Both the item and the country change at midnight your time, so there's always a fresh one waiting when you wake up.

If you play Wordle or Globle, it's the same kind of thing: a quick puzzle you do once a day, plus a streak you'll want to keep going. The difference is that the answer is a real number, since every price comes from a published source, and the reveal tells you where that country sits against the rest of the world.

What's in the game

16 items, priced across 49 countries. Each item has its own page ranking every country from cheapest to most expensive.

Or browse prices by country, read the methodology, replay past rounds in the archive, or look up U.S. price history since 1980.

More daily games

Track them all on Today with one streak, or see every game.

How to play

  1. Read the item and the country at the top of the puzzle. Note the unit: a litre of milk, a pack of 20 cigarettes, 100 kWh of household electricity.
  2. Type your guess in US dollars and submit. Prices are converted from local currency at the exchange rate the source used.
  3. Each guess comes back with an arrow (the real price is higher or lower) and a colour: green means within 5%, yellow within 30%, grey further off.
  4. After your third miss a hint unlocks. It never gives a figure; it tells you why this country's price might be unusual, for example heavy excise tax, a fuel subsidy, or reliance on imports.
  5. You have five guesses. Win or lose, the reveal shows the real price, the local-currency figure, and how many minutes of the average local wage it takes to buy one.

How closeness is scored

Pricele measures how far off you are as a ratio, not a dollar difference. Guessing twice the real price is exactly as wrong as guessing half of it. That keeps the game fair across items: being $1 out on a 40-cent egg is a huge miss, while being $1 out on a $60 bottle of spirits is nearly perfect.

In practice this means the proximity meter fills on a logarithmic scale. A guess 5 times too high or too low (or worse) scores zero warmth; within 30% turns yellow; within 5% wins. A good strategy is to halve the gap each time: if $4 is too high and $1 too low, try $2 rather than $2.50, because $2 sits in the middle on a ratio scale.

Today's round

In most time zones puzzle #115 asks about beer (330ml) (a 330ml bottle or can of the most sold brand, from a shop) in Pakistan 🇵🇰. This item is priced in 42 countries in our data, so once you have played you can see where Pakistan lands in the full ranking.

Beer is heavy, mostly water, and brewed close to where it is drunk, so a shop-bought bottle is a fairly clean read on local costs plus local excise duty. It is also the item where the shop and the bar diverge most: the same bottle carries a markup of three or four times once someone hands it to you across a counter, which is why this figure is the retail one.

About the country.Pakistani hourly earnings are among the lowest in the game, so the work-time column is where this country's prices actually live: figures that read as cheap in dollars are not cheap to the person paying them. Sales tax on goods is 18%, high for the income level, and provinces levy their own 15% to 16% on services on top. Successive devaluations and the energy tariff increases required under IMF programmes have pushed electricity and fuel up faster than wages, which is why those two rows sit oddly high against everything else here.

No spoilers here: the price, its rank and the country's price page stay hidden until you finish the puzzle.

Where the prices come from

Every answer is a figure somebody published, with the source shown on the reveal and on each item page. Nothing is estimated by us or generated. The main sources are:

  • The Economist Big Mac Index, for burgers.
  • GlobalPetrolPrices.com, for petrol, diesel, household electricity and natural gas.
  • WHO Global Health Observatory tax surveys, for cigarettes, beer, spirits and e-liquid (most-sold brand in each country).
  • World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, for the daily cost of a healthy diet.
  • Cable.co.uk's worldwide mobile data pricing study.
  • Numbeo's crowd-sourced cost-of-living survey, for groceries, coffee and soft drinks, labelled as crowd-sourced wherever it appears.

Wage comparisons use average earnings so the reveal can say how long the price takes to earn locally, which is often more telling than the dollar figure. The methodology page explains conversions, dates and what we leave out, and the data page lists every source in full.

Guides and other games

  • Today: every daily game in one place, with one streak and one share line.
  • Then & Now: guess what an everyday grocery cost in U.S. cities years ago, from Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
  • Rent Ratio: five pairs of U.S. metros, pick the one with the higher HUD fair market rent.
  • Higher or Lower and Where in the World for quicker rounds.

Guides from the blog:

Frequently asked questions

What is Pricele?
Pricele is a free daily browser game where you guess what an everyday item costs in a different country each day. Both the item and the country change every day: it might be a Big Mac in Norway on Monday and a cappuccino in Japan on Tuesday. You get five tries and hotter/colder feedback after each guess.
How do you play Pricele?
Each day you get one item and one country. Type your best guess of the price in US dollars or euros; there's a toggle next to the guess box. After every guess, Pricele tells you whether the real price is higher or lower and roughly how close you got. Land within 5% of the real price to win. You have five guesses. Because the win is a percentage rather than a fixed amount, the currency you play in doesn't change how close a guess needs to be.
Which items are in the game?
There are 16 items in rotation: Big Mac, Coca-Cola, Cappuccino, Milk, Eggs, Apples, Gasoline, Diesel, Electricity, Natural gas, Cigarettes, Beer, Spirits, Vape liquid, Mobile data, Healthy diet. Each one is priced across up to 49 countries, and the item changes every day alongside the country.
Where do the prices come from?
From published sources, one per item. Big Mac prices come from The Economist's Big Mac Index. Grocery and café prices come from Numbeo's crowd-sourced country price rankings. Fuel and household energy come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, cigarettes, beer and spirits from the World Health Organization's tax surveys, mobile data from Cable.co.uk, and the cost of a healthy diet from the World Bank and FAO. Every price on the site shows its own source and collection date, and the methodology page explains how each number is produced and where it is weakest.
Is Pricele free to play?
Yes, it's completely free. You don't need an account or a download, and it works in any browser on your phone or computer.
How often does Pricele update?
A new puzzle unlocks every day at midnight your local time. The item and the country advance on separate cycles, so the same combination only comes back around roughly twice a year.
Can I play past puzzles?
Yes. The archive has every puzzle since the game launched, and you can replay any of them. Archive rounds save your result but never affect your streak, so replaying an old day can't break a run.
Does Pricele save my streak?
Yes. Your results and streak are saved right in your browser, so just play each day to keep the streak going. Nothing gets uploaded and there's no sign-in.
What is a good daily game to play instead of Wordle?
It depends what you want to be tested on. Wordle is vocabulary; Worldle and Globle are geography; Framed is film; Nerdle is arithmetic; Pricele is what everyday things cost around the world. Most people end up with a short daily rotation of three or four rather than one, because they take two minutes each. Pricele keeps a list of the ones that have lasted, with honest descriptions, at /daily-games.
How is Pricele different from other price-guessing games?
Most price games ask what a product costs: Costcodle uses Costco items, Spendle uses consumer products, PriceGame runs five rounds a day. Pricele pairs an everyday item with a country, so the question is what a Big Mac or a litre of petrol costs in Norway versus Egypt. That makes it as much a geography and economics game as a price game, and every figure is a published statistic with its source shown, rather than a retail listing.
Is Pricele or Costcodle better?
They answer different questions. Costcodle gives you a Costco product and six guesses at its US shelf price, from a catalogue of over three thousand. Pricele gives you an everyday item and a different one of 49 countries each day, five guesses, and a published source for every figure. Costcodle is the better game for American retail prices; Pricele is the better one if the spread between countries is the interesting part. Pricele publishes a full head-to-head at /vs/costcodle, including what Costcodle does better.
What should I play if I like Pricele?
Dickle, which is the closest thing to it anywhere: it names a country and asks you for a published figure about it, in five tries, on the same hotter/colder scale. It is built by the same person as Pricele and to the same rule, so every figure prints the study it came from. Beyond that, Tradle is the best of the rest for the same instinct — a real dataset played as a daily puzzle. Costcodle if you want prices without the country dimension. All of them are free and take about two minutes.
Are Pricele and Dickle made by the same people?
Yes. Both are made by the same person and run on the same principle: the game names a country, asks you for a published figure, and then shows you exactly where the real figure came from. Pricele uses the price of everyday things from sources including The Economist's Big Mac Index, the World Bank and the WHO; Dickle uses average stretched penile length from peer-reviewed urology studies. Neither invents a number to fill a gap — a country or item with no published source is left out rather than estimated.
Is Pricele reliable?
Every price carries the source it came from and the date it was collected, both printed next to the number rather than buried in a policy page. Sources include The Economist's Big Mac Index, the World Bank and FAO, the WHO and GlobalPetrolPrices, each named per item at /methodology along with how often it refreshes. Where no sourced figure exists for an item in a country, the row is simply absent — the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, and the country pages say which absences are a fact about the country rather than a gap in the research.
Is Pricele suitable for classrooms?
Yes, and teachers are a large share of who plays it. The daily puzzle takes two minutes, needs no account or install, and the reveal screen names the source for the figure, so it works as a starter for lessons on purchasing power, exchange rates, inflation or comparative economics. The price tables and the guides are readable on their own without playing.
Why is the price different from what I pay locally?
Because a single national number can't capture a whole country. Prices vary by city, by shop and by season, and the figures here are national averages converted to US dollars at recent exchange rates. They're accurate enough to make the game fair, but they aren't shopping advice, so a mismatch with your local shop is normal rather than an error.