BRAIN OUT L O UD

A small browser arcade for unusual thinking games.

Short daily puzzles for the parts of your brain that do not get a turn at work. No account, no leaderboard, no hurry.

Daily puzzles

Read the crowd

How well do you know what everyone else looks up? Four names, one level of attention, call which one belongs there. Your read gets scored against real Wikipedia lookups: a year of them for birds and dogs, six months for basketball, where the question is who is hot rather than who is famous.

YOUR READ ON THE CROWD

UNMEASURED

This read only covers BirdBrain, BarkBrilliant, and RimRecall. Play a round and the reading begins.

Where the numbers come from

Every rank in these games is how many people opened that article on English Wikipedia: over the twelve months to July 2026 for birds and dogs, and over the six months to July 2026 for basketball, where a full year of lookups measures who was famous rather than who is hot. That data is published by the Wikimedia Foundation and released into the public domain under CC0. Nothing here is generated, estimated, or invented.

This measures what people look up, which is not the same as what people know. Nobody searches for a crow, because everybody already knows what a crow is. The shoebill outranks the sparrow because it looks like a dinosaur wearing a shoe, and the cane corso outranks the beagle because it looks like it could open a door. That gap is the game.

Attention is not importance. A dodo is not more real than a wren, and a shiba inu is not more real than a mutt. They are just looked at more.