How to play Fomorrow.
Fomorrow is a daily forecasting game about attention. Every day you get three questions about what people will read on English Wikipedia tomorrow. Look at the recent reading history, make your call before the deadline, and come back to see what actually happened.
A day in Fomorrow
- Questions open at 00:00 UTC (09:00 in Seoul; 19:00 or 20:00 the evening before in New York, depending on daylight saving). Each day has three questions in three different formats.
- Read the signals. Every question shows the last seven days of pageviews for each article and its seven-day average.
- Lock your pick before 24:00 UTC. One answer per question, and it cannot be changed.
- The target is the next full UTC day. A question opened on Monday is about Tuesday’s readers.
- Come back for the result. As soon as the target day ends, Fomorrow checks every hour for Wikimedia’s published counts, which usually arrive within a few hours. So the question you answer today is scored early the day after tomorrow (UTC): in Seoul, a Monday-morning pick is usually scored by Wednesday lunchtime. If data is late, the result waits; it never turns into a zero.
The four formats
Trend battle
Four articles from the same category. Which one will grow the most compared with its own seven-day average? Size does not matter: an article going from 1,000 to 2,000 views (+100%) beats one going from 50,000 to 60,000 (+20%). Points: 100 for first, 60 for second, 30 for third, 0 for fourth. Ties share the better rank.
Head-to-head
Two articles with similar audiences. Which one will have more total pageviews on the target day? The winner scores 100. An exact tie gives both choices 100.
Momentum check
One article and its frozen seven-day average. Will tomorrow land above the average, or at or below it? A correct call scores 100. Exactly equal counts as “at or below”.
Range forecast
One article and four non-overlapping bands. Which band will tomorrow’s total fall into? Lower bounds are included and upper bounds excluded, so every possible number has exactly one correct band. A correct call scores 100.
Scoring and your record
- A full day is worth up to 300 points.
- Only live picks submitted before the deadline count toward your official points, forecast count and win rate. Checking the result days later never reduces your score.
- After you lock a pick, you can see what share of all forecasters chose each option. Your streak counts consecutive days with at least one forecast.
- The daily rewind is a bonus question about a day that already happened, with an instant answer. The practice archive replays settled questions. Neither changes your official record.
- You can play as a guest. Sign in with Google to keep your record across devices.
Where the numbers come from
All data comes from the Wikimedia Analytics API: daily pageviews on English Wikipedia by human readers (automated traffic excluded), across desktop, mobile web and apps. Pageviews count visits, not unique people. Each question’s baseline is frozen when it opens, and results freeze when first settled. See About for how questions are chosen.
Tips
- Look at the shape of the last seven days, not just the average. A recent spike often fades; a steady climb may continue.
- Weekends change reading habits. Sports, film and game articles often move with release dates and match days.
- In trend battles, small articles swing harder in percentage terms.
Play today’s questions → or browse past questions.