THE GENIUS PROJECT
🌡️ Lesson 3 of 4 · 3D game

Weather Wizard

🕒 About 15 minutes 🧠 Big idea: predict from past points 🎮 7 days to forecast

Weather AI has no crystal ball. It looks at the PAST and spots the pattern. In this game, a week of temperatures stands on a 3D island as towers. Read the towers. Guess tomorrow. Closer guess = more points!

The two wizard tricks

Before you play, learn the two tricks every forecaster uses:

📊Trick 1: the average

Add the last 3 days and divide by 3. If yesterday was 30°, before that 29°, before that 28°, the average is (30 + 29 + 28) ÷ 3 = 29°. Tomorrow is probably NEAR that number.

📈Trick 2: the trend

Are the towers climbing like stairs, or sinking? If every day is about 1° hotter than the last, add 1° to yesterday. If they are sinking, take a little away.

Mix both tricks! Start from the average. Then push it up or down with the trend. That recipe beats wild guessing every single time.

🎮 The game

How to play (3 easy steps)
  1. Read the towers. The 7 towers are the past week. Every tower wears its day and its temperature, and hotter towers are taller and redder.
  2. Grow your guess. The glowing BLUE tower marked YOU is your guess for tomorrow. Slide the slider (or tap − and +) and watch it grow and shrink. Make it fit the pattern!
  3. Lock it in! A GREEN tower marked REAL rises out of the ground right beside yours. Same height as your blue tower? PERFECT prediction!

Points each day: spot on = 15, half a degree off = 12, one degree = 9, two degrees = 6, further = 2. Seven days, 105 points max.

Day 1/7 Score 0 Best 0
Tomorrow: 29.0°C
Read the towers, set your guess, then press Lock it in!
🧙 Wizard hint

Stuck? Add the last 3 numbers and divide by 3. Then look at the towers. Climbing? Add a little. Sinking? Take a little off. Boom: you just built a tiny weather model in your head! 🧠

Check your understanding

The last three days were 30°, 31°, and 32°. Which is the smartest guess for tomorrow?

Tap the answer you think is right.

About 33°! Average of 30, 31, 32 is 31°, and each day adds about 1°. Yesterday was 32°, so tomorrow near 33° is the wizard's answer. Average + trend!

One more step: the quiz, and your certificate is waiting! 🏆