Closest Price: The Comp Challenge

Closest Price mode, also called the Comp Challenge, gives you a subject property and three comparable listings. Your job is to pick the comp that sold closest in price to the subject. Five rounds per game.

This mode is inspired by how real estate appraisals actually work. When an appraiser values a home, they pull comparable sales from the area and adjust for differences. Closest Price gives you the same puzzle, minus the spreadsheet.

The trick is that all three comps are plausible. They're in similar markets, similar size ranges, similar vintages. The differences are subtle. Maybe one has a renovated kitchen, another has a bigger lot, a third is on a busier street. You have to figure out which differences matter for price and which are noise.

What makes this mode uniquely challenging is that you need relative pricing intuition, not absolute. You don't need to know that a house costs $450,000. You need to know that it costs about the same as the colonial down the street and more than the cape on the corner.

Closest Price is the thinking person's mode. It's slower, more deliberate, and rewards careful comparison over gut instinct. If Classic is about knowing prices and Higher or Lower is about ranking them, Closest Price is about understanding why two properties end up at similar values.