The CS2 price
guessing game
Play · free with a Steam sign in · a new set every day
Five skins a day, drawn from the names we price, and drawn just for you: your set is seeded off the date and your account, so nobody can hand you the answers. Each one comes with a bracket. Move the dial to what you think it is asking, lock it in, and we score the call against the cheapest ask on the books. Blue and up, the odd Souvenir, and every so often something around a euro to keep you honest.
How to play
A thousand points a skin, so five thousand for a perfect five.
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Points fall off with how far the call sits from the ask, to nothing past thirty percent, and a call never costs you. Every skin is on a twenty-second clock at full points, sliding to nothing at sixty. There's a sixth call for everyone, drawn from the whole pool and worth half, which puts a perfect day at five and a half thousand.
| How close the call was | Points |
|---|---|
| Within 3% of the ask | 900 to 1 000 |
| Within 10% | 667 to 900 |
| Within 30% | 1 to 667 |
| Past 30% out | 0 |
| After 20 seconds on the skin | slides to 0 at 60 |
| The sixth call | half of all that |
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Every call is scored against the cheapest ask across the books we price, frozen the moment your set is dealt, so the number cannot drift while you are looking at it. A wild call scores nothing and costs nothing. What makes guessing worse than thinking is the clock: twenty seconds at full points from the moment the skin appears, sliding to nothing at sixty, and a reload never restarts it. Points are bragging rights. They buy nothing, they change no price, and nothing that happens in the game touches the desk.
Playing a friend
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Your own five are yours alone, which is what stops the game being solved by whoever plays first and posts the answers. A duel is the one place that changes, because a race on different skins is not a race: a duel gets its own set of five, the same for both of you, each played in your own time rather than against the other's, so nobody wins by being awake at the right hour. Every skin keeps the same twenty-second clock a solo call has. Each of you sees the other's calls once you have both finished, and never before.
A duel is scored for the two of you and nobody else. It stays off the daily board, it does not move your points and it does not touch your streak, so you can take one on as well as your own run rather than instead of it.
Streaks run on days, not sets: play one day, then the next, and it climbs. Miss a day and it survives. Miss two and it starts again.
Where the prices come from
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The same place the rest of the desk reads them. PatinaAI prices live listings across Steam, Skinport, CSFloat, Buff and the other books it watches, converts them to euros, and keeps them fresh through the day. The game asks for the cheapest ask because that is the number a buyer would actually pay, and it freezes it the moment your set is dealt, so the answer cannot move between the round appearing and you calling it.
Want the same prices for your own skins? Sign in with Steam and the desk prices every copy you own on its own float and pattern, net of fees, and tells you where each one pays most.
Questions
How does the CS2 price guessing game work?
Five skins are drawn every day from the names PatinaAI prices, and your five are yours: the draw is seeded off the date and your account, so nobody can hand you the answers. Each one comes with a bracket, and you move a dial to the price you think it is asking somewhere inside it. The call is scored against the cheapest ask across the books we watch, frozen the moment your set is dealt, so the number cannot drift while you think.
How are points scored?
Points fall off with how far the call is from the ask. Inside 3% is 900 to 1000 points, inside 10% is 667 to 900, inside 30% is 1 to 667. Past 30% a call scores nothing, and it never costs you: every skin is on a twenty-second clock instead, so a lookup is worse than a read. A perfect five is 5000. Everyone gets a sixth call too, drawn from the whole pool and worth half, which puts a perfect day at 5500. Points are bragging rights and buy nothing.
Can I play against a friend?
Yes, and a duel is its own game. It has its own set of five, the same five for both of you, each skin on the same twenty-second clock as a solo call, and each of you sees the other's score only once you have both finished. It never touches the daily board, your points or your streak: it is a thing between you and whoever you sent the link to, which is why you can play it as well as your own run rather than instead of it.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a Steam sign in, free and one click. It is what makes the set yours rather than everyone's and puts your score on the board: one run a day per account, attached to a real Steam profile rather than to a browser somebody can clear.
Where do the prices come from?
The same place the rest of the desk reads them: live listings across Steam, Skinport, CSFloat, Buff and the other books PatinaAI prices, converted to euros. The game never uses a made-up number.