Answer like it’s
a different year.
Six prompts, six years. Each one is scored against what people back then were actually playing, naming, watching and reading about.
🔊 Sound is on. Tap the speaker up top for low or off.
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Six random prompts, no timer, no effect on your streak.
That trip has sailed.
Each trip is only open on its own day. Today’s is waiting.
The first trip leaves soon.
A new trip leaves every midnight, US Eastern time. Everyone gets the same six prompts.
Boarding in –
How to play
- Each prompt names a year. Answer with what was big then, not now.
- You get one answer and 30 seconds per prompt. Spelling doesn’t need to be perfect.
- Points depend on where your answer ranked that year: #1 lands you on the exact date (1,000), anything in the top 50 still lands in the right year.
- Deep cut: +150 for a hit that was huge then but has faded since. 🕰️
- Paradox: −100 for naming something that didn’t exist yet. ⚡
- An answer from a different year’s list lands you in that year, for no points. ⏪ ⏩
- A new trip leaves every midnight, US Eastern time. Everyone gets the same one.
- Sound is on: dial clacks, drumrolls, fanfares and a different sting for every era. The speaker in the top corner switches between on, low and off.
- Sundays are Deep Time: six jumps from the ancient world to the early 1900s, oldest first. Other days have at most one ancient prompt.
- Ancient lists (cities, empires, record-height structures) are short and the estimates are rough, so anything in their top 10 scores well.
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