Estimation Olympics

Post date: 2026-11-13 15:06:39

What are some tricky "estimation" questions I could ask a small group? Examples inside.

For a whakawhanaungatanga activity at my workplace, I am running an "Estimation Olympics" for my co-workers. I want to ask them a series of questions that, while having a factual and specific answer, are highly unlikely to be ones anyone will know the answer to. Ideally, even ballparking it should be challenging.The goal is for them to stretch their estimation and approximation skills, and get as close as possible. I would love for the questions to be outrageous but answerable, and not rely on any specialist knowledge.

Examples would be "how many elephants are there in the United States?" (best estimate is around 350), or "how many Spanish speakers are there in China?" (around 98,000), "how many grains of sand are there on Earth per person on Earth?" (about 6.5 billion).

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