One complete free run of each practice game: Red Rock, Sea Wolf, SFL Classic and SFL Island, with your score and worked review. Start without an account; a free account is needed to finish and keep the debrief.
Original scenarios built to the stages candidates report. Each format includes one complete free run, your score and worked feedback with visuals. Start without an account; a free account is needed to finish and keep the debrief. Use the arrows to step through each run.
Sustainable Futures Lab comes in two versions. Candidates report SFL Classic (13 decisions) with 85-minute invitations and SFL Island (a 30-minute, three-day team project) with 95-minute invitations. Each has its own practice below, and one SFL pack opens both.
A Red Rock run: the exhibit read for a hidden unit, three facts saved to the research journal, the answer worked on the calculator, then the review marked Correct.
The whole run on film: exhibit, journal, calculator, review.
Investigation: save the facts the answer needs to your journal.
Analysis: pick the chart that shows what the board asks for.
Cases: choose the evidence, then calculate.
Debrief: your score by phase and the step that cost the most.
Simulation 1 in full: all three sites. At each, set the profile, classify ten cultures, play four prospect-pool rounds and choose a three-culture treatment.
free run
30 min
on each treatment
5 checks
full simulations
10
Trains: Constraint matching, set-level arithmetic, structured elimination. Read the Sea Wolf guide
The new 30-minute format reported on 95-minute invitations: lead four researchers across three days. Practice 1 includes onboarding and all three project days, with Explore, Assign, Support and Reflect each day, plus its worked debrief free; 9 more come with the SFL pack.
island days
3
island practices
10
a run
30 min
Trains: Spending scarce questions, matching people to work on evidence, handling a team. Read the SFL Island guide
Simulation 1 in full: one ranking and twelve situational decisions on one project, with no countdown. The ranking-and-scenario format candidates report on 85-minute invitations.
Pictures show an earlier practice edition of the same Sea Wolf site in both modes, step by step. Learning provides coaching and feedback as you go in all four practice games, untimed in the clocked games. It requires the matching game pack, the Solve pack or qualifying Annual access. The free Simulation run includes its worked review at the end.
Choose one attribute range and the Needed trait; your starting cultures stay the same.
Learning mode
No clockCheck: feedback now
Check profile gives you feedback straight away.
Simulation mode
Clock runsSubmit: feedback later
The same choice with the clock already running. Submit and move on.
Place each culture: Here, Later or Reject.
Learning mode
No clockTarget range on each valueCheck: feedback now
The target range is drawn on every value, and Check decision explains the call.
Simulation mode
Clock runsValues only, no rangeSubmit: feedback later
Values only, no ranges. Submit and move on.
Add one culture a round to build your pool.
Learning mode
No clockRanges drawn on each valueCheck: feedback now
Each culture shows where it sits against the target ranges.
Simulation mode
Clock runsValues onlySubmit: feedback later
Plain numbers. You judge the fit yourself.
Pick three cultures whose averages fit all three ranges.
Learning mode
No clockLive team averageCheck: feedback now
The team average moves as you pick, and Check decision scores it.
Simulation mode
Clock runsNo average shownSubmit: feedback later
No average, no check. You work the sums yourself.
A site closes and the next one opens.
Learning mode
No clockYour result, now
Your result and your repair round, straight away: 4 of 5, then 5 of 5.
Simulation mode
Clock keeps runningNo result until the debrief
No result between sites and the clock keeps running. The score waits for the debrief.
Learning hints. Worked reasoning after every decision.
Start here, then switch to Simulation.
Simulation hints. Work independently, then review the debrief, with limited first-step feedback in Red Rock and Classic.
Finish here, a few days before your test.
SFL Classic has no timer in either mode. SFL Island runs on a 30-minute clock in Simulation mode.
Know exactly where the points went.
Your completed free run includes your score, where points went and worked feedback on each submitted decision. Visual explanations include highlighted calculations and charts in Red Rock, constraint and treatment visuals in Sea Wolf, decision and dependency diagrams in Classic, and evidence chains, placement maps and team feedback in Island. No payment is required for that first worked review.
Earlier practice edition: Simulation score, next steps and points by site.
Earlier practice edition: Learning feedback and what to improve.
Earlier practice edition: the missed check, arithmetic and a Repair.
Your score, where the points went, and the next three runs.
Practice scoring: Profile 10%, Classification 10%, Pool viability 20%, Treatment 60%
Your points, and where you lost them by site or skill
Treatment ranges and trait checks, with the arithmetic shown
Constraint and treatment visuals, with worked feedback on submitted decisions
Debrief: every decision rated, then three runs in order.
A decision as you play it, before the rating.
All 13 decisions rated, then the three runs that fix the weakest one.
Every decision rated Strong, Mixed or Risky with its points
Your answer next to the worked one
First answers to ranking and judgment decisions
Decision and dependency diagrams in the first free worked review
After the run: replay the step you missed, then two more runs.
The worked step: the base you divide by decides the answer.
The next three runs, in order, starting from the step you missed.
Points by scored step
Highlighted calculations and charts in the first free worked review
Investigation is unscored
Scores reflect Road to Offer's independent practice rubric.
41 Solve practice simulations. One price.
A Red Rock, Sea Wolf or SFL pack costs US$29 once; SFL includes both Classic and Island. The Solve pack is US$79 once for permanent access to all four practice games, including Learning mode. Its 41 simulations include the four free runs. Qualifying Annual access also includes Solve. Each pack also includes its game's step-by-step PDF guide; every guide has a free preview.
Checking your Solve access…
Why candidates practise McKinsey Solve here.
The first complete run and worked review of each format are free with a free account. The Solve pack adds Learning mode and permanent access to all four practice games for US$79 once. The Solve plan is free with a free account and gives dated practice steps selected for your invitation and test date, up to 28 days; it does not use your score.
Road to Offer Solve practice compared with other Solve prep sites, checked October 7, 2026.
Feature
Road to Offer
Other Solve prep
Start a complete free run
Each of four practice games; free account to finish and keep the review
Account required
Plan from your invite and test date
Free with a free account; dated steps for your invitation, up to 28 days
Generic schedule at best
Untimed Learning mode
All four practice games with a matching pack, Solve pack or Annual access
Rare
Worked answer beside yours
Worked feedback on submitted decisions; first complete run free in each format
Compared with the public pages of three Solve prep sites that offer a free run, checked October 7, 2026. A feature a site does not describe publicly is not counted as offered.
