Higher or lower
Higher or lower is the arcade game of the set: two titles appear side by side, and you say which has more episodes. It looks simple and really isn't, because our intuition conflates how long a show ran with how many episodes it made. A beloved three-season series loses every time against a soap nobody discusses. The second mode swaps episodes for the public rating, which calls on an entirely different set of reflexes.
How to play
- Two shows appear: say whether the one on the right has more or fewer episodes than the one on the left.
- A correct call keeps the run alive, a miss ends it. Your best run stays on your device.
- Ratings mode swaps the episode count for the average public score.
Three ways to play better
- Separate formats in your head: a daily soap or a talk show almost always beats a season-based series, however long it ran.
- Japanese animation inflates fast: a show running for ten years passes 300 episodes without feeling like it.
- In Ratings mode, be wary of very popular recent shows: their average is often lower than a less-watched classic's.
Where the data comes from
Episode counts come from our own show cache — the one used to compute your progress — not from an estimate. Ratings come from TMDB, rounded to one decimal like everywhere else on the site, so no round is decided by an invisible digit.