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Published on LW with permission from Ben Orlin. Originally published in the book Math Games with Bad Drawings, which is includes many more fun math games, all thoughtfully wrote up like below. And also more silly doodles, which I have not reproduced here - get the book for the full experience! Also see Breaking Rank, from the same book, and Calibration Trivia for instructions on how to run a meetup for a more hardcore calibration game. I enjoy trivia games: the camaraderie, the tension, the chips, the salsa... all of it, really, except the pesky part where I need to know things. Outrangeous is a game for folks like me. You answer each question ("How many apostles did Jesus have?") not with a specific number, but with a range. Miss the truth (e.g., "50 to 100"), and you score no points (hence, "out-range-ous"). Capture the truth, and you score more points based on how narrow your range is (so "10 to 13" beats "11 to 18"). In the end, the game isn't about how much you know. It's about re

x Outrangeous (Calibration Game) — LessWrong Calibration Games (posts describing) Rationality World Modeling Frontpage 39 Outrangeous (Calibration Game) by jenn 7th Mar 2023 11 min read 4 39 Published on LW with permission from Ben Orlin. Originally published in the book Math Games with Bad Drawings , which is includes many more fun math games, all thoughtfully wrote up like below. And also more silly doodles, which I have not reproduced here - get the book for the full experience! Also see Breaking Rank , from the same book, and Calibration Trivia for instructions on how to run a meetup for a

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