Then and now

A past amount, a different year. Can you guess what it would take in 2025 prices?

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The price index year

What would from this year be worth in prices?

A price index tracks average prices. Your own costs may have changed by more or less.

How to play

Each round shows an amount from a past year. Pick the amount that would have similar buying power in the latest full year in the data. You get ten rounds; each answer shows how the price index was applied, and you can copy your score at the end.

About the figures

The game uses the same annual price-index calculation as our inflation calculator. When both years have Consumer Prices Index (CPI) figures, it uses CPI. For earlier years it uses the Office for National Statistics' long-run composite price index for both years. These annual averages compare average prices across a year; they do not show what a particular item cost or what your own spending changed by.

Sources: ONS CPI series D7BT and long-run composite price series CDKO. Try Minimum wage through the years, Guess the gross or Where does the money go? next.