Two of the world's biggest companies face off, and the stat changes every round: one pair is compared on founding year, the next on market value, employee count or annual revenue. Guess higher or lower — or earlier or later — and keep the streak alive; one wrong call ends the run.

The founding years are where intuition goes to die. Nintendo has been around since 1889, Saint-Gobain since 1665 — and Valve runs Steam with only a few hundred employees while Walmart employs over two million people. With 200 companies and four stats, no two runs ask the same questions.

How to play

• The left card shows a company with one stat revealed; the right card shows the challenger and names the stat being compared.
• For money and people stats, tap Higher or Lower. For founding year, tap Later or Earlier.
• A correct guess reveals the number, slides the challenger to the left, and deals a new company — often with a brand-new stat.
• One wrong guess ends the run. Your score is the streak you reached.
• Get through all 200 companies without a miss and you've fully cleared the quiz at a streak of 199 — but the run doesn't stop there. Companies come back around on a stat they haven't been asked on yet, so the questions keep changing after you've seen every logo. Only a wrong guess ends a run.

What counts in this quiz

• 200 of the world's biggest and best-known companies across tech, finance, energy, retail, luxury, autos and more.
• Four stats per company: founding year (of the oldest direct predecessor), market value (market cap, or latest valuation for private companies), employees, and annual revenue — rounded reference figures, snapshot around early 2026.
• Privately held companies without a public valuation are simply never asked on market value — every pair is dealt a stat both sides have.
• Statistical coin-flips are never dealt next to each other (for founding years, that means at least a few years apart) — and in a genuine tie, either answer counts as correct.

What's not included — and why

• Market values and headcounts move constantly; the quiz scores against its snapshot, not today's ticker.
• Subsidiaries and brands owned by listed groups appear at most once, under the entity people actually recognise.

Good to know

• Nintendo started in 1889 as a playing-card maker — it's older than Ford, Disney and IBM.
• Saint-Gobain, founded in 1665 to make mirrors for Versailles, is older than the United States by more than a century.
• Where a company's stylised logo isn't freely licensed, the card shows its headquarters instead — logos on Wikimedia Commons only make the cut when they're free to reuse.