Juxtastat

Juxtastat is a daily quiz that asks you to compare two US regions across five rounds. Each round shows you two places and a statistic, and you pick the region that ranks higher on it. The questions come from the Urban Stats database, so you are judging real numbers on density, rent, race, elections, transportation, and climate rather than guessing a location on a map.

What is Juxtastat?

Each daily puzzle is built from five rounds. In every round you see two US regions, usually with maps, and a single statistical criterion: which one has higher population density, higher rent, or a stronger showing on some demographic, housing, transportation, election, or climate metric. You click the region you think fits the criterion better. There is only one decision per round, so a full game is five picks and nothing more. The rounds get progressively harder as you go, so the first pair is often an easy call and the last one can be genuinely close.

What sets Juxtastat apart from most games in the -dle family is that it is not about identifying a place at all. Games like GeoGuessr drop you into a location to figure out where you are, and Worldle asks you to name a country from its outline. Juxtastat instead gives you two known regions and asks which one wins on a specific data point. It is a comparison quiz sitting on top of a real demographic and statistics database, so the skill it tests is your feel for how American places actually rank on things like rent, density, and voting patterns.

The game is part of the Urban Stats project by Kavi Gupta, with Luke Brody, and the source lives in the kavigupta/urbanstats repository on GitHub. Urban Stats itself is a larger tool for exploring statistics across US regions and global density, and Juxtastat is the daily quiz built on that same data. The project keeps its data and code open, which is unusual for a daily browser game.

After you finish the day's five rounds, each round reveals the percentage of players who answered it correctly. That per-question percent-correct feedback doubles as a difficulty read: a round only twenty percent of players got right tells you the comparison was a trap, while a near-universal answer confirms the obvious one. Beyond the standard daily mode, there is Retrostat for replaying past puzzles and an Infinite mode that runs on a lives system, where a wrong answer costs a life and five correct answers in a row earns one back. Your quiz history can be synced across devices with a Google sign-in and exported or imported.

How to play Juxtastat

1. Open Juxtastat at urbanstats.org/quiz.html.
2. Read the statistic named at the top of the round, such as higher population density or higher rent.
3. Look at the two US regions shown and decide which one ranks higher on that statistic.
4. Click the region you believe fits the criterion to lock in your pick.
5. Continue through all five rounds, noting that they get harder as you go.
6. Review the percentage of players who got each round right once the game ends.

Tips and strategy

• Read the exact statistic before looking at the maps, since the wording tells you whether higher or lower is what you want.
• Treat the early rounds as low-risk and save your uncertainty budget for the harder final rounds.
• Lean on general knowledge of dense urban cores versus spread-out suburbs when the metric is population density.
• For rent and housing questions, remember that coastal and major-metro regions usually run higher than inland ones.
• Use the percent-correct reveal at the end to learn which comparisons fool most players, then carry that pattern forward.
• Try Retrostat or Infinite mode to build intuition for the data without spending your one daily puzzle.

Good to know

Category

Geography and statistics quiz

Resets

Daily, one new puzzle each day

Cost

Free

Guesses

5 rounds, one pick per round

Modes

Standard daily, Retrostat, Infinite

Archive

History synced via Google sign-in; past puzzles via Retrostat

Creator

Kavi Gupta with Luke Brody, Urban Stats project

Feedback

Percent of players correct shown per round

Platform

Browser, urbanstats.org

Juxtastat FAQ

Is Juxtastat free?

Yes. Juxtastat is free to play in a browser at urbanstats.org/quiz.html, and you can sign in with Google to sync your history if you want to.

How do you play Juxtastat?

Each daily puzzle has five rounds. In each round you see two US regions and a statistic, and you click the region that ranks higher on it. The rounds get harder as you go, and at the end each shows the percentage of players who answered correctly.

When does Juxtastat reset and can I play past puzzles?

A new standard puzzle appears each day. You can replay older puzzles through Retrostat mode, and your quiz history can be synced across devices and exported or imported.

Is Juxtastat like Wordle?

It shares the one-puzzle-a-day format, but the play is different. Instead of guessing a hidden word or place, you compare two known US regions and pick which one ranks higher on a real statistic like density, rent, or elections.

Who made Juxtastat?

It was made by Kavi Gupta, with Luke Brody, as part of the Urban Stats project. The source is available in the kavigupta/urbanstats repository on GitHub.