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Quiz reveal

A question, a draining countdown ring, then the answer, struck out option by option.

How to read it

A question, a countdown that speeds up as it drains, then the answer: wrong options are crossed out, the right one lights up, and the number rolls in. Where a poll split or option values are given, bars show how everyone else guessed and a number line shows how far off each guess was. The point is to commit to a guess before the ring empties.

Best for

A statistic that is more memorable once you have guessed wrong at it first.

When not to use it

The answer is easy to guess, or the question has no single defensible answer.

The common mistake

Asking something nobody could have an intuition about. Surprise only works if the viewer had an expectation to break.

Example data

How many people have never used the internet?

Guess before the timer runs out

2.6B

About 2.6 billion people

The sample dataset this format ships with, drawn the way the site draws every clip's numbers — hover, sort or step through it. Figures as given by its source line: Illustrative example data.

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