How Many Mice

📝 Special Statement

The Rodent Roster: A High-Stakes Test of Perception

Prepare your mind for a frantic challenge in visual estimation and calculated risk! This is not a simple counting game; this is The Rodent Roster, a quick-fire psychological battle where your immediate perception is pitted against the ticking clock and your own impulsive curiosity. Your singular, initial mission is to accurately Guess how many mice are on the screen! 🐭⏱️

The Calculus of Clicks

The screen is your canvas, and the hidden mice are your quarry. At the start of each round, a number of mischievous mice are concealed behind a uniform pattern. Your inherent curiosity urges you to reveal them, and indeed, you can help yourself by touching the screen, uncovering the hidden mice! Every touch removes a layer of obscurity, confirming the location of a mouse and improving your guess's accuracy.

However, the game introduces a brilliant, punishing dilemma: the more you click, the less points you get. Each revelation costs you precious score. This forces a critical strategic choice: Do you trust your gut feeling and save points, or do you spend points to achieve certainty? True mastery lies in finding the precise equilibrium between rapid estimation and minimal verification—the optimal point of "just enough" clicking to guarantee the correct number without sacrificing your high score. This is the ultimate risk-reward puzzle for quick thinking gamers.

The Escalating Pressure

As you prove your mental agility, the game ratchets up the intensity, transforming the exercise into a high-speed sprint of cognitive performance. As you proceed in the game you will have less time to count the mice!

This shrinking timer demands that your process of simultaneous estimation, clicking, and counting must be executed with increasing speed and efficiency. The challenge evolves from a deliberate puzzle into a frantic test of visual perception under pressure and rapid decision-making. Can you maintain accuracy when the clock is screaming its last seconds?

Only those who master the delicate balance of quick estimation and minimal interaction will conquer the Rodent Roster and claim the top score! Good luck with the guessing! 🌟🖱️

📋 Instructions