Sustainable Futures Lab Simulator
Prepare for the established McKinsey Solve SFL format under real time pressure. The current simulator provides a 20-minute, 13-question flow for practising judgement and trade-offs. It does not yet reproduce the tested 30-minute team-management interface.
Start with a drag-and-drop ranking, then work through branching multiple-choice decisions. Feedback is organised around three practice dimensions: prioritisation, working with ambiguity, and teamwork and stakeholder management.
Two SFL formats are currently being reported
Solve Games Guide currently reproduces the established 20-minute, 13-question format. Early candidate reports describe a different, approximately 30-minute team-management format in some 95-minute invitations.
Established format and current SGG simulator
20 minutes and 13 questions, beginning with prioritisation and continuing through interconnected situational-judgement choices.
Tested format reported in 95-minute invitations
Approximately 30 minutes, with four researchers, four workstations, and decisions carried across three simulated days. McKinsey has not published the mechanics or scoring model.
Your invitation and on-screen instructions take priority. The current SGG simulator does not yet reproduce the reported four-researcher, four-workstation interface.
Read the 95-minute format reportSee the interface
This interface reproduces the established 20-minute, 13-question practice format. It does not represent the tested 30-minute workflow reported in some 95-minute invitations.
How the SFL simulator supports your prep
Four beats from the established 20-minute format: time discipline, explicit prioritisation, branching judgement calls, and structured reflection.
Timed mission
Timed mission
One sitting, real pressure
Read the briefing, then move through all 13 questions within the mission clock to build pacing for the established format.
Ranking task
Ranking task
Drag-and-drop prioritisation
The first question is typically a ranking exercise: order objectives or actions before the scenario branches based on your priorities.
Scenario choices
Scenario choices
Interconnected decisions
Later prompts reveal information step by step. Choose responses that balance impact, feasibility, and stakeholders. There is rarely one obviously perfect option.
Feedback
Feedback
Three practice dimensions
After your run, review explanations keyed to prioritisation, working with ambiguity, and teamwork and stakeholder management, a Solve Games Guide framing to support preparation, not an official McKinsey score report.
Use full-length practice to build a consistent decision style across the flow, not just isolated “right” answers.
Choose Your Package
Select the package that fits your preparation needs. All packages include 2-week access.
You only get one attempt at the McKinsey Solve Games. This costs less than a single interview coaching session, and prepares you for the actual filter.
Ultimate
The complete toolkit: simulations, solver, cases, and Sustainable Futures Lab missions. Everything you need to prepare with confidence.
- Sea Wolf Solver
- Sea Wolf Simulations
- All 5 known McKinsey Solve formats
- 20+ full-length Redrock case studies
- 5 Sustainable Futures Lab Missions
- Refund protected performance guarantee
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Train the full McKinsey Solve stack
Practice SFL for free in your account, then add Redrock and Sea Wolf simulators when you are ready for the heavier quantitative modules.