Boss Run: every game on the site, in one daily run
Pop Culture Games has grown into a shelf of games, and until this week a player used one of them. You bookmarked the one you liked and the rest were a menu you scrolled past. Boss Run is the one daily that uses the whole shelf: 20 rounds in a row, drawn across 5 of the games here, scored out of 1000. The second round is a different game from the first, and the third is another one again — that is the point of it. One run, one number, one card to share.
How a run works
Today’s run is 20 rounds, the same 20 for everyone, worth 50 points each and 1000 in all. Every round is worth the same whatever game it came from, so nobody gains by having drawn more of the generous one. A wrong round costs its points and never ends the run — a score people compare has to be the same length for everyone — and nothing is dealt twice inside a run, so an object or a person you have already met will not come back later on. The run is saved after every round, so you can close the tab halfway through and come back exactly where you left it.
The rounds come in two kinds and they are worth the same. A call — bigger or smaller, earlier or later, older or younger — is worth 50 points or nothing, because a two-way call that paid half for a coin flip would leave the score meaningless. An estimate is paid by how close you get: set the slider, and anything within 6 % of the real figure takes full marks, with the points falling away from there. It is the same curve the estimate games already score on, brought to the same ceiling, so a perfect estimate and a correct call are worth exactly the same.
One day, one deal
A day’s rounds come off its date: everybody playing today gets the same 20 questions in the same order, and that day will deal the same ones in a year. Nothing a player does changes them. The summary reads the run back game by game, so you can see at a glance which one cost you the run, and the share card carries one line per game instead of a block of identical squares: it says where you were strong, not only how it ended.
Every day is kept. You can play yesterday’s run from the link under the board, work back through the archive, or read any day’s answer key on the answers page without playing it. A rank comes with the score, and your best sits on this game’s card in the list.