Dollars per Pound · A SADHOT Game

Pillz and Missilz

Two things, one pound of each. Pick the pound that costs more while Pillz fills up or the fuse on Missilz burns down. Every answer comes back in AGM-114 Hellfire missiles per pound.

Each card names one thing and what it sells for. Weigh out a pound of each in your head and pick the pound that costs more. A weapon is weighed whole. A pill is weighed by the drug in it, so a pound of a 5 mg tablet is 90,718 tablets.

Trainee deals 12 pairs with no clock. Auditor and Expert never stop dealing, and the avatar you pick is the clock: Pillz is a bottle that keeps filling with pills, Missilz is a Hellfire on its launch rail with a lit fuse, and every right call buys time while every wrong one costs it. After each call the clock stops and the answer stays on screen until the next deal comes up by itself. At Expert three cards come at once, and the call is the dearest pound.

Pick a level

Your avatar for Auditor and Expert

The Levels

LevelCardsClockThe call
Trainee12 pairsNoneThe dearer pound, ← or →
AuditorEndless, two at a timeThe avatar, filling or burning a little faster with every pairThe dearer pound, ← or →
Expert SADHOT AuditorEndless, three at a timeThe avatar, speeding up fasterThe dearest pound, 1 2 or 3

All 51 prices in the game, 37 pills and 14 weapons and metals, ranked from the most expensive pound to the cheapest and restated in AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. The scale is logarithmic, so each gray line marks a price ten times the line before it.

It gives away every answer in the game. It opens by itself when a game ends.

  • Pill
  • Same pill at the Medicare price
  • Weapon
  • Metal
  • Silver, $893 a pound
  • Gold, $61,513 a pound
  • One AGM-114 a pound, $125,468
  1. 1Pomalyst4 mg capsule, list price873 AGM-114s per pound$109,587,917 a pound
  2. 2Pomalyst4 mg capsule, Medicare price347 AGM-114s per pound$43,595,267 a pound
  3. 3Vraylar1.5 mg capsule, list price111 AGM-114s per pound$13,869,847 a pound
  4. 4Daraprim25 mg tablet, after August 2015108 AGM-114s per pound$13,607,771 a pound
  5. 5Vraylar1.5 mg capsule, Medicare price62 AGM-114s per pound$7,761,469 a pound
  6. 6Ibrance125 mg capsule, list price22 AGM-114s per pound$2,761,711 a pound
  7. 7Ibrance125 mg capsule, Medicare price11 AGM-114s per pound$1,360,086 a pound
  8. 8Xtandi80 mg tablet, list price10 AGM-114s per pound$1,273,839 a pound
  9. 9Sovaldi400 mg tablet, launch price, December 20139.0 AGM-114s per pound$1,133,981 a pound
  10. 10Rybelsus14 mg tablet, list price8.3 AGM-114s per pound$1,035,703 a pound
  11. 11Farxiga10 mg tablet, list price6.7 AGM-114s per pound$840,658 a pound
  12. 12Epclusatablet holding 500 mg of drug, list price6.4 AGM-114s per pound$807,394 a pound
  13. 13Eliquis5 mg tablet, list price6.3 AGM-114s per pound$787,739 a pound
  14. 14Xtandi80 mg tablet, Medicare price5.3 AGM-114s per pound$661,867 a pound
  15. 15Imbruvica420 mg tablet, list price4.3 AGM-114s per pound$537,615 a pound
  16. 16Trintellix20 mg tablet, list price3.3 AGM-114s per pound$408,233 a pound
  17. 17Xarelto20 mg tablet, list price3.1 AGM-114s per pound$390,845 a pound
  18. 18Levothyroxine50 mcg generic tablet2.9 AGM-114s per pound$368,498 a pound
  19. 19Eliquis5 mg tablet, Medicare price2.8 AGM-114s per pound$349,266 a pound
  20. 20Jardiance25 mg tablet, list price2.8 AGM-114s per pound$346,545 a pound
  21. 21Imbruvica420 mg tablet, Medicare price2.7 AGM-114s per pound$335,478 a pound
  22. 22Rybelsus14 mg tablet, Medicare price2.4 AGM-114s per pound$295,915 a pound
  23. 23Farxiga10 mg tablet, Medicare price2.2 AGM-114s per pound$269,887 a pound
  24. 24Daraprim25 mg tablet, before August 20152.0 AGM-114s per pound$244,940 a pound
  25. 25Biktarvytablet holding 275 mg of drug, list price1.8 AGM-114s per pound$231,799 a pound
  26. 26Xarelto20 mg tablet, Medicare price1.2 AGM-114s per pound$148,929 a pound
  27. 27Jardiance25 mg tablet, Medicare price1 AGM-114 per 1.1 pounds$119,144 a pound
  28. 28Januvia100 mg tablet, list price1 AGM-114 per 1.6 pounds$79,681 a pound
  29. 29Goldspot price, 2 October 20261 AGM-114 per 2.0 pounds$61,513 a pound
  30. 30Entresto97/103 mg tablet, list price1 AGM-114 per 5.3 pounds$23,738 a pound
  31. 31Januvia100 mg tablet, Medicare price1 AGM-114 per 7.3 pounds$17,085 a pound
  32. 32Lorazepam1 mg generic tablet1 AGM-114 per 7.7 pounds$16,338 a pound
  33. 33FIM-92 Stingershoulder-fired missile with its launcher, 34.7 lb1 AGM-114 per 9.1 pounds$13,833 a pound
  34. 34Entresto97/103 mg tablet, Medicare price1 AGM-114 per 11 pounds$11,151 a pound
  35. 35THAAD interceptormissile-defense interceptor, 1,459 lb1 AGM-114 per 14 pounds$8,765 a pound
  36. 36FGM-148 Javelinanti-tank missile with its launch unit, 49.5 lb1 AGM-114 per 20 pounds$6,402 a pound
  37. 37AIM-120 AMRAAMair-to-air missile, 358 lb1 AGM-114 per 29 pounds$4,307 a pound
  38. 38AGM-179 JAGMair-to-ground missile, 115 lb1 AGM-114 per 37 pounds$3,364 a pound
  39. 39F-35Afighter jet, 29,300 lb empty1 AGM-114 per 40 pounds$3,140 a pound
  40. 40AIM-9X Sidewinderair-to-air missile, 186 lb1 AGM-114 per 44 pounds$2,859 a pound
  41. 41SM-6ship-launched missile, about 3,300 lb1 AGM-114 per 50 pounds$2,532 a pound
  42. 42AGM-158 JASSM-ERcruise missile, 2,251 lb1 AGM-114 per 91 pounds$1,386 a pound
  43. 43AGM-114 Hellfireair-to-ground missile, about 100 lb1 AGM-114 per 100 pounds$1,255 a pound
  44. 44Amlodipine5 mg generic tablet1 AGM-114 per 137 pounds$918.07 a pound
  45. 45Silverspot price, 2 October 20261 AGM-114 per 140 pounds$893.08 a pound
  46. 46Lisinopril10 mg generic tablet1 AGM-114 per 151 pounds$830.98 a pound
  47. 47Tomahawk Block Vcruise missile, 3,330 lb1 AGM-114 per 161 pounds$778.32 a pound
  48. 48Bupropion XL150 mg generic tablet1 AGM-114 per 527 pounds$238.05 a pound
  49. 49Amoxicillin500 mg generic capsule1 AGM-114 per 1,767 pounds$71.01 a pound
  50. 50Ford-class carrieraircraft carrier, 224,000,000 lb fully loaded1 AGM-114 per 1,848 pounds$67.90 a pound
  51. 51Metformin500 mg generic tablet1 AGM-114 per 9,830 pounds$12.76 a pound

Hover over a row for the basis of its price. Pills are weighed by the labeled strength of the drug.

Readings

Daraprim went from 2.0 AGM-114s per pound to 108 in August 2015, when the price of a tablet rose from $13.50 to $750.00. A pound of Pomalyst at its list price costs more than a whole F-35A, 1.2 jets to the pound, and the Medicare negotiated price brings it down to 347 missiles. Generic levothyroxine sells for $0.04062 a tablet and still ranks above gold, because the tablet holds 50 micrograms of drug. A Hellfire costs 1.4 times its weight in silver, a Tomahawk costs less than its weight in silver, and a pound of amoxicillin runs within $4 of a pound of Ford-class aircraft carrier.

The unit is one AGM-114 Hellfire, the air-to-ground missile carried by Apache helicopters and Reaper drones. The Army bought 920 of them in fiscal year 2022 for $115,431,000, which is $125,468 a missile. Other budget lines price the missile anywhere from $60,027 to $215,938, so every figure on the ladder can halve or double with the choice of line. A Hellfire weighs about 100 pounds, which makes a pound of Hellfire worth $1,255. Gold was $4,218.01 a troy ounce and silver $61.24 on 2 October 2026. A pound holds 14.583 troy ounces, which puts gold at $61,513 a pound and silver at $893. One AGM-114 buys 2.0 pounds of gold or 140 pounds of silver.

A weapon is weighed whole. A pill is weighed by the drug in it, the strength printed on the label, because the label gives no weight for the tablet itself. A pound of drug is 453,592 milligrams, so a pound of a 5 mg tablet is 90,718 tablets. The measure rewards small doses: the fewer milligrams in the pill, the more pills in the pound.

Brand list prices and Medicare negotiated prices are the 30-day figures in the two CMS negotiation fact sheets, divided by the number of pills in 30 days. The 2026 negotiated prices are in force and the 2027 prices take effect on 1 January 2027. Biktarvy, Epclusa and Trintellix use the list prices their makers published for January 2026, and Ibrance uses the price Pfizer disclosed for 21 capsules on 1 May 2024. Generic prices are the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost, the CMS survey of what pharmacies pay, effective 19 August 2026 and read from ndclist.com. Sovaldi and Daraprim are priced from the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Aging Committee reports. Weapon prices are budget dollars divided by quantity in the Pentagon procurement tables, and weights come from the Navy Fact File, CSIS Missile Threat and published specifications.

Five figures rest on thinner ground. CMS prints one price for a 30-day supply of Pomalyst, a capsule taken 21 days in 28, and the ladder counts 22.5 capsules, the reading that gives the lower price. Imbruvica is counted at 30 tablets. Vraylar is priced at the 1.5 mg starting dose, and at 3 mg its figure halves. The Stinger price is a 2022 contract figure, and the F-35A price comes from press reports of the Lot 18 and 19 contract.

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