About Fairway Daily Game

A small, independent daily word game about golf and general knowledge.

What We Made

Fairway Daily Game is an original browser game: a five-hole round where every shot is a category prompt and rarer answers fly further. It was inspired by the wider wave of daily word and trivia games, and everything here, from the prompt bank and the answer tables to the course drawings and the text, was written for this site.

How the Answer Tables Are Built

The bank has 152 prompts and 11,530 accepted answers. For each prompt, an editor lists valid answers in five rarity tiers, from the answers almost everyone gives first to deep cuts few people would think of. Inside each tier, answers that are more frequent in everyday English (measured with the open wordfreq word-frequency dataset) get a larger share. The result is an estimated share of players for every answer, which sets how far it flies.

These shares are careful estimates, not survey results. As people play, we look at anonymous, aggregated answer counts and use them to recalibrate the tables so distances match how players really answer.

Fair Play

Everyone gets the same daily course and prompt order. There is no account, no leaderboard to game and no pay-to-win. Missing an answer that should count? Tell us at support@fairwaydailygame.com.

Contact

See the contact page for questions, corrections and feedback.