Guides: real data, drawn as colour.
When the South flipped, the baby names that came back, the NBA playoff games that swung the most. Each story is told with real Huezle strips — one band per state, year or minute.
This season
- Election night trivia: read the election from its colours.Presidential election trivia for election night: four quick rounds built on real elections drawn as strips of colour, one band per state. How many can you get?
- Thanksgiving football, minute by minute.Thanksgiving football trivia: six Lions and Cowboys holiday games from the last ten years drawn as strips of colour, one band per minute. Can you name them?
- Gothic novels for Halloween, chapter by chapter.Frankenstein, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde and more classic Gothic novels drawn as strips of colour, one band per chapter, from sombre indigo to bright gold.
- Holiday movie trivia: name the director from the career.Movie trivia for the holidays: famous directors’ careers drawn as strips, one band per film, dark to light by IMDb rating. Can you tell Nolan from Kubrick?
- NBA tip-off trivia: last postseason, minute by minute.The 2026 NBA playoffs as strips of colour before the new season: the Knicks’ 29-point Finals comeback, a 61-point lead, a road Game 7 and a double overtime.
NBA Playoffs
- The NBA Finals since 2011, in five strips.Sixteen NBA Finals from 2011 to 2026 in five minute-by-minute strips: the Heat years, Warriors against Cavaliers, and a run of new champions.
- Every NBA Finals Game 7 since 2011.The three NBA Finals that went to Game 7 since 2011 — Heat v Spurs 2013, Cavaliers v Warriors 2016, Thunder v Pacers 2025 — drawn as minute-by-minute strips.
- The 2016 NBA Finals, game by game.The 2016 NBA Finals as minute-by-minute strips: how Cleveland came back from 3–1 down to beat Golden State, and how close Game 7 really was.
- The 2025 NBA Finals, game by game.The 2025 NBA Finals as minute-by-minute strips: Indiana’s last-second Game 1, the trade of wins, and Oklahoma City’s Game 7.
- The 2026 NBA Finals, game by game.All five games of the 2026 NBA Finals as minute-by-minute strips: how the New York Knicks came from behind in every win, including from 29 down in Game 4.
- LeBron James in the NBA Finals, 2011–2020.LeBron James’s nine NBA Finals from 2011 to 2020 with the Heat, Cavaliers and Lakers, told through six minute-by-minute strips of the games that defined them.
- The biggest NBA playoff comebacks since 2011.How rare a 20-point NBA playoff comeback is, and what the biggest ones from 2011 to 2026 look like drawn one band per minute.
- NBA playoff Game 7s since 2011: is home court worth anything?The 54 NBA playoff Game 7s from 2011 to 2026, drawn minute by minute: how often the home team won, how many were close, and how many were over early.
- The biggest NBA playoff blowouts since 2011.The most one-sided NBA playoff games from 2011 to 2026, drawn one band per minute: a 61-point lead, a 55-point win, and why the final score is only half the story.
- The closest NBA playoff games since 2011.The NBA playoff games from 2011 to 2026 that stayed tight from tip-off to buzzer, and why a close final score so often hides a game that was not close at all.
- NBA playoff overtime games since 2011, and the longest ones.The 80 NBA playoff overtime games from 2011 to 2026, drawn minute by minute: how often it happens, the quadruple overtime, and why a late lead is worth so little.
- The Warriors dynasty in the NBA Finals, told in strips.Golden State’s six NBA Finals from 2015 to 2022, drawn minute by minute: four titles, two defeats, and the strange pattern in their Game 3s.
Elections
- How to read a century of presidential elections in colour.US presidential elections since 1900 drawn as strips of colour, one band per state from west to east. Learn to read the eras from four real strips.
- When did the South flip from Democrat to Republican?The Solid South in colour: how Southern states went from voting Democratic by 90 points to reliably Republican, told in four election strips from 1920 to 2024.
- The biggest presidential landslides, drawn in colour.Three of the most lopsided US presidential elections drawn as strips of colour, one band per state, and why each landslide holds out in a different place.
- The closest presidential elections, state by state.The most evenly fought US presidential elections since 1900 as strips of colour, and why the closest national result is not always the palest strip.
Baby names
- Old-fashioned baby names that came back.Emma, Ella, Henry and Sophia: Victorian baby names that nearly vanished in the 1970s and 1980s and returned, drawn from 146 years of US births.
- How the most popular baby name changed, decade by decade.Mary led the girls for eight decades and Michael the boys for four. Since 2000 no name has held on. How America’s number one baby name changed, in strips of colour.
- Baby names by generation.The names that belong to one generation more than any other, from Debra to Brittany to Liam, measured over 146 years of US births and drawn as strips of colour.
- One-hit wonder baby names.Dewey, Debra, Brittany, Jayden: US baby names that shot up and fell away within a few years, drawn as 146 years of births, one band per third year.
- Timeless baby names that never went out of style.Elizabeth and Samuel never had a moment and never faded. How steady a baby name can be over 146 years of US births, measured and drawn as strips of colour.
Weather
- The hottest cities in the world, year by year.Which cities have the hottest days, and which are hottest all year round? 193 cities, 25 years of NASA data, drawn as strips of colour.
- The coldest cities in the world, year by year.Yakutsk drops below −50 °C every winter. The coldest nights in 193 cities, 2001 to 2025, drawn as strips of colour from NASA data.
- The windiest cities in the world.The windiest of 193 cities are all in the Southern Hemisphere, the calmest all in the rainforest. Everyday wind, 2001 to 2025, as strips of colour.
- The cities most often hit by earthquakes and tropical cyclones.Davao and Tokyo lead 58 cities for strong earthquakes and tropical storms nearby, 2001 to 2025, counted year by year from USGS and NOAA.
- Which cities are warming fastest?The 25-year temperature trend for 193 cities, from NASA data. Central Europe warmed fastest, the tropics slowest, and a few cities went the other way.
Sports
- The greatest World Chess Championship games, move by move.Fischer–Spassky 1972, Kasparov–Karpov 1985, Carlsen’s 136-move win and Gukesh’s title game, drawn as strips of colour showing who the engine favoured each move.
- The greatest Premier League title races, matchday by matchday.Premier League title races since 1995-96 as strips of colour: late swings, wire-to-wire champions, Leicester in 2015-16 and the leaders who let it slip.
- Premier League great escapes, matchday by matchday.Clubs that sat bottom of the Premier League late in the season and stayed up, and two that fell from the top half to relegation, drawn matchday by matchday.
- The biggest NFL comebacks of the last ten seasons.The biggest deficits overcome in NFL regular-season games from 2016 to 2025, drawn as strips of colour, from the Vikings’ 33-point comeback to the 21-point ones.
Money
- Which companies talk about AI the most?Mentions of AI in 40 big companies’ 10-K annual reports, 2011 to 2025, drawn as strips of colour. Who said it early, who said it most, and the 2023 wall.
- The 2020 stock market crash, in colour.How 103 household-name stocks moved through the March 2020 crash, week by week: who bounced back by summer, who soared, and who ended 2020 far below where it began.
- The best performing stock of the year rarely does it twice.What kind of company tops a year, and how last year’s winner does next, across ten years of about 110 household-name stocks, drawn week by week as strips of colour.
- Billionaire fortunes that rose and fell, year by year.Forbes-list fortunes from 2001 to 2026 drawn as strips of colour: the fastest risers, the 2009 crash, and the people whose names left the list.
TV, film and culture
- Owen Wilson’s “wow”, movie by movie.When Owen Wilson says “wow” in a movie, mapped in five-minute slices as strips of colour: the bursts, the long silences, and the film with five in five minutes.
- The most popular comic book heroes, decade by decade.How superhero careers rise and fade, one strip of colour per character: Spider-Man’s six decades, Nick Fury’s 1960s, Wolverine’s gap and the late bloomers.
- The colours of famous album covers, sliced left to right.The Dark Side of the Moon, Abbey Road, Thriller and the black album, each cover reduced to twelve colours read left to right. Plus why one of them is all black.
- The happiest and saddest classic novels, chapter by chapter.The mood of 136 classic novels measured chapter by chapter: the darkest (Germinal), the brightest (Little Women) and the ones that start bright and fall apart.
- The lowest-rated final seasons, episode by episode.Final seasons and late-season slumps drawn episode by episode from IMDb user ratings: Squid Game’s last season, The Witcher’s third, The Last of Us’s second.
- The best TV seasons of all time, episode by episode.The highest-rated TV seasons by average IMDb user rating, one band per episode: Attack on Titan, Game of Thrones, True Detective, and finales that spiked.
- How great directors’ careers rise and fall, film by film.Directors’ careers drawn one band per film, coloured by IMDb user rating: most peak early, a few peak late, and a handful never have a bad night.
Games like…
- Games like Connections, and one where the pattern is a colour.Like NYT Connections? What makes it work, what to look for in another daily puzzle, and Huezle, where you spot the pattern in a strip of colour made from real data.
- Games like Worldle and Globle, for people who think in maps.Like Worldle or Globle? How geography dailies work, what to look for in another one, and Huezle, where the climates of 193 cities are drawn as strips of colour.
- Games like Framed, for people who know their films and shows.Like Framed, the daily movie-guessing game? What makes film dailies fun, and Huezle, where TV seasons and film careers are drawn as strips of colour by rating.
- Games like Immaculate Grid and Poeltl, for sports fans.Like Immaculate Grid or Poeltl? How sports trivia dailies work, and Huezle, where real NBA, NFL and Premier League games are drawn as strips of colour.
- The best daily puzzle games for iPhone.A fair guide to well-known daily puzzle games you can play on iPhone, from Wordle and Connections to LinkedIn’s Queens and Apple’s Quartiles, plus Huezle.
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