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Each one is based on published research and takes a few rounds; most last two or three minutes. At the end you compare your answer with the crowd and read the science behind the finding. Play again as often as you like.

EXP. 011 · Probability

The Linda problem

Linda, Bill, and a health survey: across four short scenarios, will your intuition win, or the simplest rule of probability?

2 min7 responses
Plays in the last 30 days: 6
EXP. 020 · Gamble

The coin-flip bet

Tails, you lose 100 TL; heads, you win more. How much does the gain have to outweigh the loss before you take a bet?

2 min3 responses
Plays in the last 30 days: 3
EXP. 012 · Decision

Two frames, one decision

Same numbers, different words. Are the numbers making your decision, or the way they are told?

2 min4 responses
Plays in the last 30 days: 2
EXP. 013 · Thinking

The bat and the ball

Seven questions that look easy. The real trap is that they look easy.

3 min3 responses
Plays in the last 30 days: 1
EXP. 014 · Probability

Three doors

Three doors, one car, two goats. First a single game, then 10 quick games and 100 doors: test for yourself the question that has infuriated even mathematicians.

3 min3 responses
Plays in the last 30 days: 1
EXP. 026 · Confidence

How sure are you?

Ten questions, and for each one a lower and upper bound you are 90 percent sure about. We measure not what you know, but how well you know what you don't know.

4 min1 response
Plays in the last 30 days: 1
EXP. 028 · Decision

The wheel and the guess

First the wheel spins, then you estimate. The wheel's number has nothing to do with the answer; but is your estimate really unaware of it?

2 min1 response
Plays in the last 30 days: 1
EXP. 030 · Patience

Now or later?

Compare 1000 TL today with larger amounts a week, a month and a year from now; measure the price of your patience and your present bias.

3 min1 response
Plays in the last 30 days: 1
EXP. 027 · Logic

Four cards

Four cards, one rule. In psychology's most famous logic puzzle, most people turn over the wrong cards; but move the same logic into a bar scene and things change.

3 min0 responses
Plays in the last 30 days: 0