Higher or Lower: Award Flights, the Daily Miles Guessing Game

Does the next flight cost more miles or fewer?

Higher or Lower: Award Flights puts two award flights side by side. You can see what the first one costs in miles. The second one's price is hidden, and you call it: higher or lower? Then the number counts up, flashes green or red, and the next flight slides in.

Every card is a real nonstop route with a real price from the Award Flight Pricer: the fewest miles you could book it for one way, in economy or business. There are 557 cards in the game, 280 in economy and 277 in business, on 283 routes flown by 95 airlines and priced through 23 loyalty programs. It's a quick way to build a feel for what award flights cost, which is most of the skill in spending points well.

There's a new daily set at midnight, the same one for everyone, and an Endless mode for when you want more. It's free and there's nothing to sign up for.

How to play

Read the open card. It shows the route (airport codes and cities), the distance, the cabin, the airline that flies it, the program it's booked with and its price in miles one way.
Make the call. Is the hidden flight's price higher or lower? Tap Higher or Lower. On a keyboard, press ← or H for higher and → or L for lower.
Watch it count. The hidden price counts up and the card turns green if you were right or red if you weren't. The hidden card then becomes the open one, and a new card slides in.

There are never ties. Two flights next to each other always differ by at least 15% and at least 2,000 miles, and never fly the same route, so every call has a right answer.

Scoring

Daily: 11 cards, so 10 calls. A wrong call doesn't end the game: you play all 10 and score out of 10. A score of 6 or more counts as a win and keeps your daily streak going. When you finish, you get a recap of all 11 flights and their prices, and a Share button that copies your result as a row of green and red squares, without giving away any prices. The daily works through all 557 flights in a fixed shuffled order, 11 a day, so a flight comes back roughly every 50 days.

Endless: random flights, one after another, until your first wrong call. Your score is how many you got right in a row, and your best run is saved. Runs of 10 or more count as wins in your Endless stats.

Your stats (games played, win rate or best run, current and best streak, and how your scores spread out) are kept in your browser, separately for Daily and Endless. Close the tab halfway through a daily and it picks up where you left off.

Where the prices come from

The prices are a snapshot of the award chart engine behind the Award Flight Pricer, taken in November 2026, the same figures the airline award pages quote under "What it costs". For each route and cabin, the game uses the cheapest program that charges a fixed price from its award chart:

Off-peak prices. When a program has peak and off-peak prices (29 of the cards do), the card shows the lower one.
No dynamic pricing. Some programs price partner flights dynamically, from a floor price upward. Those prices aren't fixed, so they're left out, and the 33 route and cabin pairs that only had dynamic prices aren't in the game.
Miles and Avios alike. Programs that price in Avios (British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Qatar Airways and Finnair) are counted the same as miles.
One way, before taxes. Taxes and carrier surcharges aren't part of the price.

The cheapest card in the game is easyJet from London Gatwick to Paris for 3,000 miles with Emirates Skywards. The most expensive cost 140,000 miles, all long business flights, such as New York to Shanghai on China Eastern with Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. The program that's most often cheapest is ANA Mileage Club (108 cards), then Air Canada Aeroplan (84), Virgin Atlantic Flying Club (70) and Qatar Airways Privilege Club (68).

Strategy tips

Distance is the biggest clue. Award charts are built on distance or regions, so a 7,000-mile flight almost always costs more than a 500-mile hop in the same cabin.
Check the cabin badge. The typical (median) economy card costs 24,000 miles and the typical business card 50,000. But cabin isn't everything: a short business flight such as Phuket to Bangkok (11,500 miles) is far cheaper than a long economy one such as Boston to Beijing (75,000).
Play the middle. The typical card costs 34,000 miles. If the open card is well below that, the next one is more likely to be higher, and the other way round. It's not foolproof, but it's the right default when you have no other clue.
Look at the program. The same flight can cost very different amounts depending on who you book it with. That's the lesson to take back to the real thing: before you transfer points, compare programs in the Award Flight Pricer and check who can book an airline in the Award Booking Guide.

FAQ

How does Higher or Lower: Award Flights work?

You see two award flights. The first one's price in miles is shown and the second one's is hidden. Call whether the hidden price is higher or lower, then the next flight slides in. The daily game has 10 calls and Endless keeps going until your first wrong call.

Where do the mileage prices come from?

From a November 2026 snapshot of the award chart engine behind AwardHack's Award Flight Pricer. Each card is the cheapest program with a fixed award chart price for that route and cabin, one way, before taxes and fees.

What if a program has peak and off-peak prices?

The card shows the off-peak price, the lowest the program charges. Programs that price partner flights dynamically, from a floor price upward, are left out, because their price isn't fixed.

Does a wrong call end the daily game?

No. You play all 10 calls and score out of 10. A score of 6 or more counts as a win and keeps your streak going. Only Endless mode stops at your first wrong call.

Can two flights cost the same?

Not next to each other. Neighboring cards always differ by at least 15% and 2,000 miles and never fly the same route, so every call has a right answer.

Is it free?

Yes. It's free to play with no account, as often as you like.