In this high-tension game show, competitors vie for the title of Measurement Estimate Master. They are handed various objects, and estimate their length, mass, weight, density, volume, luminescence, voltage, etc. The closest to the actual number wins. In the final challenge, the advancing competitors have to cut wood to a called-for size with no visual aides, using oddly-sized tools.

Finally a place where those with a gift for eyeballing precision can demonstrate their talent and be celebrated.
-- RayfordSteele, May 04 2022

Estimation_20Skills by hippo [calum, May 05 2022]

Awarding .500085 buns
-- Voice, May 04 2022


It looks to me like you're shorting him just a bit, [Voice]
-- lurch, May 04 2022


I once parked my car with the bumper quite close to the wall of a parking garage. My friend was a bit concerned at how close I came. I told him to relax, that I had, like, 4 inches to spare. He got out, looked at it, and said it looked like it that was exactly what it was. We measured with a piece of graphing paper homework that was in the car. I was under 1/8 in off.
-- RayfordSteele, May 04 2022


//handed//
Maybe for Round 1. Purely "by eye" is the real challenge; bodyparts of a known size can be used if you can handle or touch an object (eg. outside my handspan is conveniently 200mm).
[RayfordSteele]; I do that sort of thing in a virtual sense. I sketch some part in CAD, then apply dimensions. It scares me how close I get, sometimes less than 0.1mm off (on a length of ~100mm or more).
-- neutrinos_shadow, May 04 2022


Maybe I should've called it "Size Queens."

It's a CAD and engineering thing, I think. There should be some kind of award for it.
-- RayfordSteele, May 04 2022


When I was young there were often games like this at village fetes, there would be a huge glass jar full of sweeties and you would pay 10p to guess how many sweeties were in the jar. Closest guess won the lot. I always entered but never won.
-- pocmloc, May 04 2022


Yeah we did that quite a bit.
-- RayfordSteele, May 05 2022


You son of a bitch, I'm in! [+]
-- 21 Quest, May 05 2022


Something I'd actually be good at [+].

Your title really sounds like an anagram.
-- nineteenthly, May 05 2022


+ This is very good for some thing I am not very good at!
-- xandram, May 05 2022


I am also in.

This is my jam.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 06 2022


Like seriously... it's all I know.
I would rock this.

Not bragging, because I might totally be delusional but, given previous experience...

...yeah.
Bring it.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, May 06 2022


//title really sounds like an anagram.//

But it is, for the particularly shy and modest keeper of the most prudish bordello. She is the:
tamest maitresse
-- Loris, May 08 2022


I used to work at a manufacturing outfit where we did something similar. An employee would grab a piece of scrap metal, and walk it around the plant asking people to put up a dollar, and estimate the length or thickness of the scrap piece - closest estimate got all the money.

We would guess the weight of nearly empty welding gas cylinders, etc.
-- normzone, May 09 2022


A car version of this would be fun:

Steve things this sideswiped Camry can be repaired for under $2k, but has he factored in the blind-spot monitoring mirror? Find out after the break on Estimate-My-Wreck!

//It scares me how close I get,//

Having recently got into 3D drawing, I can see how this happens. The world of manufactured things is surprisingly predictable once you get into the minds of the designers. The world is less metric than it pretends to be, and that lends itself to certain metric measurements. 100 & 150mm are usually just 4" & 6", or maybe a mix of both is used for clearances, I've measured plenty of things where the housing is 25.4mm and the rotating thing 25mm for example.
-- bs0u0155, May 09 2022


Where do I sign up?
-- UnaBubba, May 11 2022


About 8.3 inches from the top edge of the page.
-- RayfordSteele, May 11 2022



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