Fermium

[This README was written by a human]

Fermium is a Fermi estimation game. You will be asked absurd questions like "How many piano tuners work in Chicago?" and you answer with a single number. There's no expectation of getting the answer exactly correct, but you need to be within the right order of magnitude.

Play it here: https://madhavmenon10.github.io/Fermium/

Game modes

• Competitive: A 10-minute run against the clock. Answer as many questions as you can; the timer keeps ticking through the result screens. When time's up, submit your total to the global leaderboard.
• Casual: Practice your estimation for as long as you like and end the round whenever you want.

Stack

• Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no framework and no build step. Open index.html and it runs.
• Supabase (through its REST API) backs the global leaderboard.

Contributing questions

The question bank lives in questions.js as the QUESTIONS array, and adding to it is the easiest way to contribute. Append a new object with the next unused id:

{
  id: ,
  prompt: "",
  category: "l",   // "general" or "interview"
  difficulty: ,         // 1 = Easy, 2 = Medium, 3 = Hard
  answer: ,           // the true value — must be a positive number
  answer_unit:",
  canonical_decomposition: ""
}

A few guidelines:

• answer must be a positive number as scoring is logarithmic, so 0 or negative values don't work.
• Keep canonical_decomposition to a tight chain of assumptions a player could plausibly reason through.
• Use "general" for everyday trivia and "interview" for market-sizing / estimation-interview style questions.

Then open a pull request with your additions.