Older Than You Think
Two inventions, events or brands at a time: tap whichever came first and learn the dates behind it.
Timeline puzzles and year guessers: date an old photograph, read a front page and place it in time, or sort events and inventions into the order they happened.
They are free to play in a browser, and a few minutes each.
Two inventions, events or brands at a time: tap whichever came first and learn the dates behind it.
Drag a handful of illustrated historical events from earliest to latest; you get six submissions, and each check highlights the events already sitting in the right slot.
Sort six events from across world history into the order they happened, with three attempts to get the full sequence right; NFL, NBA and U.S. editions also exist.
Study five photographs and slide a timeline to the year you think each was shot, anywhere from 1900 to the present, scoring more for closer guesses.
Read one event that took place on today's date and enter its four-digit year in six tries; digit colors flag exact and off-by-one matches, plus a before-or-after hint.
Place eight historical events, each in turn, around an anchor fixed on the timeline; every drop is marked right or wrong instantly, and you never type a date.
Reorder a short list of events pulled from many centuries and regions into the sequence they happened, then check whether your order holds up.
Date five real-world photos on a scale running from 1850 to 2025, scoring more for near misses; optional digit reveals help when a picture has you stumped.
Three events that all happened in one mystery year are listed; type your guess, BC dates included, and more hints arrive with each miss.
Decide, event by event, whether each came earlier or later than the year on screen; marathon modes and special runs extend play past the day's set.
Every event shares today's calendar date; name the exact year of each while a pool of 100 lives drains by one for every year your guess misses.
Put a year on each of a handful of major historical events and see how close you land; a multiplayer option pits friends against the same set.
Four historical clues point to a single year; work out which one. The German-made site also offers an English version.
Sort six milestones from U.S. history, spanning the colonial era to recent decades, into chronological order within three attempts.
Every card names something from Wikipedia with a known year, such as an invention or event; slot each new card into its correct spot on a growing timeline.
Read five genuine NYT headlines from 1900 onward and name the year each ran, scoring more the closer you get.
Ten museum objects appear one by one; drop a pin where you think each was made and pick its era, scored on both distance and date.