History dailies mostly ask for one of three things: a year, an order or a name. The year games show you a photo, a headline or a few lines about events and reward a near miss, or steer you toward the answer with every try. Timeline games skip the typing and ask you to put events in sequence. The rest hide a person behind clues that sharpen as you go, or ask where and when an object or a painting was made.
This page groups the picks by that task, with two to four in each group. Every one is free in a browser, and the daily round opens to anyone without an account. Many are short, five photos or a handful of events, so a photo game and a timeline game fit easily into a lineup beside word or map puzzles.
Date what you see; a near guess still scores well. The Chronophoto list and the TimeGuessr list have more photo games.
Five photographs a day, each to be placed on a slider between 1900 and now, with more points the nearer you get. Fashion and technology in the frame are the usual clues. An unlimited mode can be narrowed to any span of ten years or more, and a party mode deals a group the same photos.
Five photos a day on a longer scale, from 1850 to 2025, with more points for nearer guesses. When you are torn between decades, a digit reveal shows one digit of the year at no cost to your score, though no digit can be opened twice in a game.
Five genuine New York Times headlines, any year from 1900 on, and you work out when each was printed. An exact year earns 1,000 points and a decade off still earns 650, while a miss of 80 years or more scores nothing. Missed issues can be played from the archive.
A line or two of text and a year to find, with a clue back after every try. The Yeardle list has more.
Three events that all happened in one year, and that year is the answer. Dates before the common era are fair game, so the keypad has a BC key, and every miss adds another hint, up to eight more beyond the opening three. When the daily is done, an unlimited mode deals fresh sets of events.
One event that fell on today's date in some earlier year, and six tries to enter that year as four digits. Feedback runs from the left, digit by digit, and one wrong digit hides the verdict on every digit after it, so settle the century first. Each miss also says whether to go earlier or later.
No year to type: put events in order, before or after each other, and the dates appear as you go. The Wikitrivia list has more of these.
Nine events, one fixed in place as an anchor. The other eight come one card at a time, and each must land in the right gap before the next appears, with later cards worth more points. A full run lasts around two minutes, and yesterday's timeline is free to replay.
A handful of illustrated events to drag from oldest to most recent, with six submissions to get the order right. Each check lights up the cards that already sit in their correct slot, so you can leave those alone and rework the rest. Everyone sorts the same events on a given day.
Cards drawn from Wikipedia and Wikidata, each naming something with a known date and a short line of context, go into time order one after another. Each new card has to slot in among the ones already down. Besides the daily deal, a Free Play mode sits on the home page.
Two things at a time, such as an invention, an event or a company, and you tap whichever came first before a short clock runs out. Then both dates show, along with how many years apart they are and a fact explaining the answer. Each day's run has twelve pairs, and an unbroken streak can triple your points.
Here the answer is a person, or an object or a painting has to be placed in time and space.
One historical figure a day, revealed through five clues in turn: a birth year, a dot on a blank map for the birthplace, the place of death, the person's main role and, last, a portrait. Each clue allows one guess. Earlier days stay in an archive that never touches your streak.
Four daily puzzles about the past: deduce a historical figure from a set of attributes, name who said a quote, recognize a portrait, or identify a landmark. The pool holds about two hundred figures, from ancient rulers to modern scientists and artists, plus 55 places, and earlier days are kept in an archive.
Ten museum objects a day, each shown with its material and the collection it comes from. Pin where you think it was made and choose its era from 250-year blocks between 3000 BCE and 2000 CE. Three free hints a day leave your score untouched, and the pieces come from open collections such as The Met.
A wall of paintings, all painted in one year, and you have to date them, somewhere between 1200 and 2020. Tap any canvas for a closer look before setting your guess with the slider or by typing it. Dating the gallery is the first of two steps in each of the five rounds.
Only games listed on Today's Dailies were considered, so each one is free, plays in a web browser and opens its daily round without an account. Every link is tested overnight. The rules described here were read on each game's own site in early November 2026, scoring included, and reset times come only from those sites. Picks are grouped by the task they set, and none is placed above another. All 13 picks were opened in a phone-sized browser between November 4 and November 7, 2026 and loaded, and each one fit the screen without sideways scrolling.
The checks every listed game goes through are set out in how games are checked and listed.
Usually a daily puzzle with a year or a person as the answer and a few tries to reach it. Yeardle lists three events from one year, Daydle gives one event from today's date with six tries, and Dawn of Time hides a historical figure behind five clues. Photo and timeline games score how close you come instead.
Chronophoto deals five photos a day between 1900 and now, and Which Year five on a scale from 1850 to 2025, both scoring by closeness. The Daily Headlines works the same way with five old New York Times headlines, and Paintiquity with a gallery of paintings from one year.
Several keep earlier days. The Daily Headlines and Historydle have archives, Dawn of Time keeps its puzzles once the day is over, and Timdle leaves yesterday's timeline free, with older ones on its paid plan. Chronophoto and Yeardle offer unlimited modes instead.
