Four Houses
Inspired by the idea of sorting people into houses, with our own scenarios and houses.
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What it measures
Four values, one house each. Ember is nerve, the person who goes first. Harbor is heart, the one who keeps people and keeps promises. Lantern is mind, the one who wants to know how things work. Summit is drive, the one with somewhere to be.
Each of the 20 scenarios is a small situation, such as a dare at a lake or a locked box in a secondhand shop, with four answers, one for each house. We tried to make the four answers equally likable, so the choice turns on what you would do and not on what sounds best. Your house is the one your choices landed on most, and the report ranks all four.
On our ranking this test gets 1 out of 5 for evidence and 5 out of 5 for fun. It sorts you into a house and makes no claim to measure you. For a real measure, take Five Traits.
Three of the questions
- You're at a lake with friends. Someone dares the group to jump off a high rock into the water.
- In a secondhand shop, you find an old wooden box. It's locked, and there's no key.
- The fire alarm goes off at 3 a.m. where you're staying.
What you get
- Your house, with a portrait of what it gets right and what it costs
- All four houses ranked, with how many of your 20 choices went to each
- What your house is known for, and its blind spot
- A note when your top two houses finished within a point of each other
Where it comes from
We wrote all 20 scenarios and the four houses. The idea of sorting people by what they value comes from fiction. Two studies, by Crysel and colleagues (2015) and Jakob and colleagues (2019), found that the house people pick or get sorted into lines up, loosely, with their scores on standard personality questionnaires. Those studies used the original houses, not ours, and nobody has tested ours.
Who owns the original
If you know the sorting ceremony from a certain school for wizards, you know the idea. We are not affiliated with it, and our houses are our own.