Guides

Longer reads about the Florida Man phenomenon, how the game is built and how to get better at it.

• Florida Man by the numbers What roughly 370 verified Florida Man headlines and the first days of play tell us - topics, years, sources, headline length, and how badly people guess.
• How to spot a fake Florida Man headline Seven tells that separate a real Florida Man news headline from one written by an AI, based on what players get wrong in the game.
• How we verify every headline The pipeline behind the game - where real headlines are collected, how they are checked and filtered, how the fakes are written and judged, and how pairs are retired.
• What is a Florida Man? Where the Florida Man meme comes from, why Florida produces so many of these stories, and what the Sunshine Law has to do with it.