The game on a phone: a kid picking a move, with their museum and hand of cards below
The size reveal: a giraffe is 18 feet tall, about as long as a car laid down, with a fact about its tongue and a check for everyone who guessed right
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giraffe = 4½ kids stacked up!

Ant to Everest

The card game where a giraffe costs more than a ladybug.

For kids 6 to 9 and the grown-up next to them.

Tell me when it’s out

How big is it? Coming to Android first, then iPhone. Free.

Everything on this page can be moved around. Go ahead.

My 2nd grader kept asking how big things are. How big is a 🌻sunflower? How long is a 🏈football field? How far away are those 🦌elk? So we made a game where knowing the answer is how you win. Every card costs its size. A 🐞ladybug is cheap. A 🦒giraffe costs more. The 🗼Eiffel Tower costs a lot. After a few games, kids stop guessing and start knowing.

How it plays

It’s a real strategy card game, cut down to fit a 7-year-old, with a story: you each run a museum of big and small things.

  • Explore

    Go looking. Draw cards and keep the ones you want.

  • Measure

    New things come with a ? Size. Guess how big one is, and a right guess earns cards. You can’t build a thing until you’ve measured it.

  • Build

    Put it in your museum. Bigger things need bigger rooms, so they cost more cards.

  • Visitors

    Visitors come to see your museum. The more sizes it shows, from ant to Everest, the more cards they bring.

Whoever picks a move gets a bonus, and everybody does the move. So you’re always playing, even when it isn’t your pick.

Measuring a giraffe: pick the size it’s closest to, from a quarter up to a mile

Seven sizes a kid can picture

Every card sits on a ruler of seven things kids already know. Each one is measured the way you’d really measure it, because a kid will repeat it at dinner. A car is 15 feet long, not tall.

  1. Quarter1 inch across
  2. Hand6 inches long
  3. Kid4 feet tall
  4. Car15 feet long
  5. Bus40 feet long
  6. Football field360 feet long
  7. Mileabout a 20 minute walk

When a tall thing meets a long one, the game lays it down first: “Lay it down and it’s about as long as a car. That’s about 4½ kids stacked up.”

Made for the couch

  • Play the computer, or pass the phone around with a grown-up. Hands can stay face up so you can help.
  • No account, and no internet needed to play. Your games stay on the phone.
  • Today’s Five: five things to measure every day, the same five for the whole family. Compare at dinner.
  • It’s free. Between rounds there’s a short ad, never in the first five minutes and never more than one every five minutes. The ads are set up for kids, so they’re never personalized.
  • We built it with a 2nd grader at the table, one playtest at a time.
Time to build: measured things glow with their lower price, and the ? Size ones wait until they’re measured

Questions

What ages is it for?

Six to nine is the sweet spot. Younger kids do fine with a grown-up and face-up hands. Older kids like the strategy.

Does my kid need to read?

A little. The moves are short words with pictures, and the sizes are pictures too. A grown-up helps with the first game, and after that most kids have it.

What does it teach?

How big things really are, measured against things a kid already knows. It sneaks in some planning too, like saving cards for something big.

Is there something to play every day?

Yes. Today’s Five picks a different five of the game’s 39 things each day, the same five for everyone, so you can see who knows their sizes best. No internet needed.

Is it really free?

Yes. There’s one short ad between rounds, at most every five minutes. No purchases, no accounts, and nothing to unlock.

When is it out?

Android first, then iPhone. Tap the button and I’ll email you when it’s in the store.

Want it when it’s ready?

Send one email and I’ll write back when Ant to Everest is in the store. That’s the only email you’ll get.

Tell me when it’s out