Numbers big, small and somewhere in between.
A collection of games about scale, scope and size. Make a guess, put things in order, or spot the odd one out—and see how the world actually measures up. A few minutes of play, a little surprise, a different sense of the world.
How far is a million from a billion?
The Index
- Days in a million seconds11.6
- Years in a billion seconds31.7
- Years in a million hours114
- Years in a trillion seconds31,689
Worked out from the length of a second. Real Index entries would link to their sources.
A billion seconds ago it was early 1995. A trillion seconds ago there was no farming or writing.
That is the gap between a million, a billion and a trillion. They sound like neighbors.
First a hunch. Then a number.
Before you see a number, you already have a feeling about it. A country seems enormous. An animal seems fast. A million sounds like plenty. Those impressions help us navigate the world, but they’re often built from familiarity, headlines, or one fact we half remember.
Making a guess brings that feeling into focus. Put five places in order and you discover what you think you know. Divide their totals by population and the order shifts. See the actual distance between two numbers and a close call becomes a gulf.
Sometimes you’re right. Sometimes you’re off by a continent. The interesting part is noticing what led you there—and what you’ll judge differently next time.
Go with your hunch.
Give your first impression something definite to stand on.
Meet the numbers.
See the gaps, the reversals, and the occasional surprisingly good guess.
Take another look.
What did you overlook? What turned out to matter?
Start with the question you like best.
Each game asks a different question about the same numbers. Play the one that sounds fun. The others are a click away.
Why Minor Works makes these.
Most news hands you numbers with little sense of their size. A million and a billion sound alike and are a thousand times apart.
We like the moment when that gap comes into focus—when familiar places fall into an unexpected order, or dividing by population changes the whole picture. These games are built around that small surprise.
You bring a hunch. We bring the numbers, the context and the sources. A few minutes of play a day to change how you see the world, a little at a time.