How the full version works
You are born where babies are actually born: about one in six in India, one in fifteen in China, one in a hundred and seventy-six in Japan. Your lifespan follows that country’s real child mortality and life expectancy, so you may not reach every question.
Along the way you face ten choices, at 10, 15, 18, 23, 30, 38, 45, 52, 62 and 75. Each one shifts the odds of what happens next: secret love affairs, long-lost siblings, bankruptcies and comebacks.
Real numbers, fictional drama
Country, family, school, work, children and lifespan come from UN and Gapminder statistics. The twists are fiction, written to be fun: you might be swapped at birth, jilted at the altar or found by your first love forty years later. Nothing is graphic.
Want it shorter? Play the Birth lottery (3 min). Want more? Try the endless version and collect every kind of ending.