How to play Daily Tens
Daily Tens asks you to name the top 10 entries for one category. You get five wrong answers. A right answer fills the rank it actually holds.
Start on the category line. Then open the ranking rule. It states the metric in one or two sentences and names the source, such as the US Census Bureau, the United Nations World Population Prospects, or a league record book. That sentence is the whole puzzle. A famous name that fails the sentence is a miss.
Type a guess and press Guess. Spelling can be off by one character on longer names, and common short forms are accepted, such as NYC for New York City or DRC for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. If two answers would both be close, the game waits for a clearer guess instead of picking one.
Hearts show the misses you have left. Five filled hearts means none have been spent. A miss turns one heart to an outline and prints the rejected name under the board. Guessing that same name again does not cost another heart.
When all ten ranks are filled, the round is complete. When the fifth miss lands, the open ranks fill in so you can see the rest of the list. You can also reveal the list early. Either finish lets you copy a result: score out of 10, miss count, and a mark for each rank.
The daily board is tied to the New York calendar. A streak counts finished daily rounds on back-to-back dates, whether you cleared the board or used all five misses. Archive rounds and unlimited practice do not change the streak.
Play today's Daily Tens, browse the archive, or read the trivia categories before you spend the first heart.
A short worked round
Category: largest US states by land area. Metric: land area, water excluded, Census measurements. Alaska, Texas, and California are the top three. Montana is fourth. Guessing Florida here is a miss, because Florida is populous and still far down the area list.
Rules questions
How many guesses do you get in Daily Tens?
Correct guesses are unlimited until the board is full. Incorrect guesses stop at five. A repeated miss does not cost a second heart.
Do you need to guess the number one answer first?
No. Any correct name fills its own rank. Many players start with the obvious leader, then work down, but the board accepts any order.
What should you read before the first guess?
Read the category and the metric. Words such as land area, population, titles through a named season, or city proper change which names qualify.