◂ THE ARCADE

🗞 STOP THE PRESSES!

Sly writes fast. You read carefully. Every chart gets checked before it prints.
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Editor Flint
Welcome to the fact desk. Sly files a headline, a claim, and a figure — and the figure is the only one of the three that never exaggerates. Stamp the story, then circle the line of data that settles it. The presses wait for you.
Sly FILED BY SLY · STAFF REPORTER STORY #1

🖋 YOUR STAMP — what does the figure say about the claim?
✎ THE MARGIN NOTES — circle the ONE that settles the stamp

A free SAT graph and table questions game

Stop the Presses! is a fact-checking game about reading charts. Sly the reporter files a headline, a claim, and a figure, and the figure is the one that never exaggerates. You read the line chart, bar chart, table, or scatterplot, then stamp the story RUN IT, RETRACT, or CAN'T PRINT based on what the data supports. That is the SAT skill called Command of Evidence: Quantitative, which asks you to read graphs and tables and hold each claim to what the figure shows.

How to play

Each edition is eight stories. Read the figure first, then the claim. Stamp RUN IT if the figure backs the claim, RETRACT if the figure says otherwise, or CAN'T PRINT when the figure cannot settle the claim either way. Then circle the one margin note that settles the stamp. The decoy notes misread the axis, drift off the point, or overreach past what the chart shows: percentage points read as percent, an axis in thousands read as ones, a correlation called a cause. Land the stamp and the note on the first try to keep your streak going.

Common questions

Is Stop the Presses! free?

Yes. It runs in your browser with no login and no signup, and it is free to play as many editions as you like. The Forge diagnostic that shows your full SAT picture is free too.

What SAT skill does it practice?

Reading graphs and tables, the question type the SAT calls Command of Evidence: Quantitative. You work with line charts, bar charts, tables, and scatterplots, and you practice matching a claim to what the figure actually shows: trends, totals, percentage points versus percent, units, and correlation versus cause.

Why does a claim sometimes get stamped CAN'T PRINT?

Because the figure cannot settle it, whether or not the claim is true in the world. A scatterplot can show two things rise together but not that one causes the other, and a survey of one school cannot speak for everyone. When the claim asks for more than the figure can show, the right call is CAN'T PRINT. Spotting that gap is part of the SAT skill.

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