Sports, games & work

Numbers with arrows

Two topics here are graded on a raw number — team size in Sports, wheel count in Vehicles — and numeric columns behave differently from everything else in SIXTH. You get a ▲ or ▼ telling you which way to move, the cell turns green when you are within about ten per cent, and yellow when you are within about a quarter. So a guess of eleven that comes back green does not mean eleven; it means close to eleven. Use the arrow, not the number.

The four topics

Sports

Team size, the object you play with (ball, puck, shuttlecock, stone, none), venue and whether it is Olympic. "None" in the object column is the giveaway for the athletics, swimming and combat sports; the stone is one sport and one sport only, which makes it the single funniest green in the game.

Video Games

Decade, genre, platform and player mode. Decade runs from the 1970s, so arcade-era classics sit at one end and battle royales at the other. Genre is the big splitter — platformer, shooter, racing, sports, puzzle, RPG, sandbox, strategy, fighting, horror, party, battle royale — and platform separates the console exclusives from the games that shipped everywhere.

Vehicles & Transport

Wheels, medium travelled (road, rail, water, air, off-road, space), passenger capacity and power source. Passenger capacity is an ordered scale — 1, few, dozens, hundreds — so yellow narrows sharply. Watch the wheel count on anything that flies or floats: zero is a real answer and the arrow still works from there.

Jobs & Professions

Sector, indoor or outdoor, uniform, and training length. Training runs none → short → years → many years as an ordered scale, and it is the most decisive column in the topic: one yellow tells you whether you are looking at a trade, a degree or a decade of study. Uniform is a clean yes/no that splits the sectors in a way people rarely predict.

Why this family is worth playing on a losing streak

Nothing here depends on having watched a particular show or followed a particular league. The answers are the furniture of ordinary life, so the rounds turn on reading clues rather than on recall — which makes these the best topics to practise on if you want to get better at the game itself. Tap Change topic on the home screen to play any of them as a ladder of their own.