Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)
Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest time it happened was later than the next latest event but in another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?
"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
> Would you have objected to an American Football question?
As an American not into sports, the only Football question I think would be of such historical significance to match the rest on this list would be "US Holds First Superbowl" or something.
For what it is worth, when I hear "Six Nations", I think "Iroquois Confederacy".
And as parochial as you think that American sports are, the USA has a population that is half again as big as the "Six Nations" that you intended. And here is an important fact. Most people in the world who speak English as their first language, live in the USA. The dominance of American perspectives in online conversations in English reflects our actual representation among native English speakers.
Neither is skiing or ski jumping, but it is limited in the sense of exposure. I bet most people would not be able to name the best ski jumper in 1995, but a lot of people in my country would.
Absolutely not. It's a good rule of thumb to guess "rugby" whenever I completely don't understand a sports reference, but I had absolutely no idea such a tournament existed between European nations, let alone when Ireland won it.
That said, I also had no idea who Annie Hall was, but that was way easier to guess correctly than a random rugby tournament.
It's not our fault that you don't pay attention to something called the World Series. It's also not our fault you don't have teams good enough to qualify. It's not the called the American Series where you'd be expected to ignore it. /s
I've always laughed at these types of names. The Miss Universe pageant has always made wonder what Miss Andromeda would be like, and if her answers would also talk about whirled peas too.
The -le genre is more specific - they are fixed-round guessing games, with cumulative clues accruing. It’s a great genre (which of course already existed) but if adding -le helps make more of them, that’s cool with me.
I play Heardle (guess the song from the first seconds) and Chordle (guess the chord spelling). Don’t play Wordle anymore, I got tired of it.
The last event states Ireland "returns to rugby glory" suggesting it had won the grand slam before, but also there was a decent amount of time since the last win (return suggests a hiatus). This would exclude the original 1948 win.
UI issue: my window was resized to be quite short so I was clicking the dots completely unaware that the event I was placing was hidden in the y-overflow at the bottom of the page. Sometimes visible scroll bars are useful...
Yeah! They sell many packs by genre (inventions, music, movies, science, etc) but what's neat is you can mix the cards of multiple genres and the game still works all the same. Very elegant concept.
This looks like an electronic version of the card game Chronology. Which is a great party game because it's easy to explain and you can play cooperatively if that fits your groups vibe better.
I was thinking of the board game "Timeline". This one is from 2012, but if you search BGG for Timeline, you'll find lots of different versions for different countries and specializations.
Initial prompt confused me. Weimar hyperinflation happened before the cultural revolution in China. Clicked the blob that was labeled before. Wrong answer!
Left page.
Probably a skill issue but that was my experience.
32/36: Are you the author? People is friendlier when the author is around answering questions. How are the events selected? Some are well known and some are very local.
The point system is easier to explain if each unselected spot transform into a star that flies to the point counter.
Having very local/niche events (especially near the end, when there are lots of places to go wrong) makes it feel unballanced. If you wanted to make the game more strategic and less "gotcha," you might want to have all the events available at the same time, or have a "come back to this item" option that would allow the user more control.
On a related note, there are only about 40320 possible choice paths (8!), making it about as rich as tic-tac-toe (though the context certainly makes the player think more), far lower than something like Wordel's (26⁵)⁵. Adding more decisions might make people take more ownership of their wins.
Yes, I'm the author and this is a hobby project of mine.
The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day. I have tried to come up with a large variety of categories, aiming to make it both interesting, challenging and fun for people from all over the world. But the span of categories could definitely be improved. I had a couple of iterations on both the points system and the layout a few months ago, and felt satisfied with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely take it into consideration for further work on the site.
I saw that it also made its way onto Metafilter - did you by any chance have anything to do with that?
Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at once, go-until-mistake, etc.).
I have some experience crawling+processing Wikipedia dumps in python, if you ever find the need for a new sourcing system :) Email in bio!
> Anything specific details you are wondering about?
Nothing in particular, but if in few months you have some time, it may be interesting to read a blog post with more details. There are many details that no one realize until they try to write the code and that is usually a good starting point for a good blog post.
(As an example, I thought about the "same year" rule. But you probably have a rule to try to balance military and sport events, and perhaps more...)
36/36 though two of the eight were lucky wild guesses.
I would be interested in a game like this where you order all 8 events and then get scored (similar to wordle). And then try again to put them in the right order, fewest attempts scores better.
An endless mode could be implemented with a difficulty curve that increases gradually by introducing more obscure events or events with closer dates as the player progresses.
Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)
Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest time it happened was later than the next latest event but in another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?
"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
First great to have non US questions. This is how we see many quizzes as too local. Would you have objected to an American Football question?
But Ireland have won the Grand SLam 4 times so could appear in several postions
So not a good question.
> Would you have objected to an American Football question?
As an American not into sports, the only Football question I think would be of such historical significance to match the rest on this list would be "US Holds First Superbowl" or something.
Rugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
For what it is worth, when I hear "Six Nations", I think "Iroquois Confederacy".
And as parochial as you think that American sports are, the USA has a population that is half again as big as the "Six Nations" that you intended. And here is an important fact. Most people in the world who speak English as their first language, live in the USA. The dominance of American perspectives in online conversations in English reflects our actual representation among native English speakers.
Neither is skiing or ski jumping, but it is limited in the sense of exposure. I bet most people would not be able to name the best ski jumper in 1995, but a lot of people in my country would.
I suppose you are American, this isn't obscur for Europeans at all.
Is it not? Does the average German or Portuguese or Finnish person know about the 6 nations?
I genuinely don't know. It's obviously a thing in Scotland (where I'm from) but is it a thing in other European countries?
Absolutely not. It's a good rule of thumb to guess "rugby" whenever I completely don't understand a sports reference, but I had absolutely no idea such a tournament existed between European nations, let alone when Ireland won it.
That said, I also had no idea who Annie Hall was, but that was way easier to guess correctly than a random rugby tournament.
I hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series.
Griping a bit, I know, but we, Europeans, always see these questions in various trivia games.
It's not our fault that you don't pay attention to something called the World Series. It's also not our fault you don't have teams good enough to qualify. It's not the called the American Series where you'd be expected to ignore it. /s
I've always laughed at these types of names. The Miss Universe pageant has always made wonder what Miss Andromeda would be like, and if her answers would also talk about whirled peas too.
Am European, don't even know what a Six Nations Grand Slam is
The -le genre is more specific - they are fixed-round guessing games, with cumulative clues accruing. It’s a great genre (which of course already existed) but if adding -le helps make more of them, that’s cool with me.
I play Heardle (guess the song from the first seconds) and Chordle (guess the chord spelling). Don’t play Wordle anymore, I got tired of it.
> I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le"
https://dles.aukspot.com/ begs to differ.
The last event states Ireland "returns to rugby glory" suggesting it had won the grand slam before, but also there was a decent amount of time since the last win (return suggests a hiatus). This would exclude the original 1948 win.
In 1948 it was the 5 Nations, not the 6 Nations (I assume that the question hasn't been rewritten since you saw it)
Ah you're right, my bad. That could be lead to confusion then.
What, you don't know the classic game of Timd?
UI issue: my window was resized to be quite short so I was clicking the dots completely unaware that the event I was placing was hidden in the y-overflow at the bottom of the page. Sometimes visible scroll bars are useful...
There is a very simple game called "Timeline" that is basically this: https://www.zygomatic-games.com/en/game/timeline-classic/
Extremely simple. No barrier to entry.
Yeah! They sell many packs by genre (inventions, music, movies, science, etc) but what's neat is you can mix the cards of multiple genres and the game still works all the same. Very elegant concept.
There's also https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
NYTimes also has a very similar game called “Flashback”.
I enjoyed it.
My girlfriend's first reaction after getting 30/36 and seeing the neutral smiley face emoji was, "Wordle doesn't judge me."
This looks like an electronic version of the card game Chronology. Which is a great party game because it's easy to explain and you can play cooperatively if that fits your groups vibe better.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/834/chronology
36/36 with some luck.
The domain has been created on November 2024. Is this game inspired by the Trekking Through History boardgame [1] from 2022?
[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353288/trekking-through-...
I was thinking of the board game "Timeline". This one is from 2012, but if you search BGG for Timeline, you'll find lots of different versions for different countries and specializations.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128664/timeline
I remember that game. Yes, it's a much better fit.
Cool. I like the left to right timeline better than the bottom to top one of the New York Times Flashback: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/flashback
"Something went wrong. Please try again later." These two already seem to be in chronological order :D
Initial prompt confused me. Weimar hyperinflation happened before the cultural revolution in China. Clicked the blob that was labeled before. Wrong answer!
Left page.
Probably a skill issue but that was my experience.
TIMDLE Jun 23 34/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 0p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 7p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
32/36: Are you the author? People is friendlier when the author is around answering questions. How are the events selected? Some are well known and some are very local.
The point system is easier to explain if each unselected spot transform into a star that flies to the point counter.
32/36 too.
Having very local/niche events (especially near the end, when there are lots of places to go wrong) makes it feel unballanced. If you wanted to make the game more strategic and less "gotcha," you might want to have all the events available at the same time, or have a "come back to this item" option that would allow the user more control.
On a related note, there are only about 40320 possible choice paths (8!), making it about as rich as tic-tac-toe (though the context certainly makes the player think more), far lower than something like Wordel's (26⁵)⁵. Adding more decisions might make people take more ownership of their wins.
Yes, I'm the author and this is a hobby project of mine. The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day. I have tried to come up with a large variety of categories, aiming to make it both interesting, challenging and fun for people from all over the world. But the span of categories could definitely be improved. I had a couple of iterations on both the points system and the layout a few months ago, and felt satisfied with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely take it into consideration for further work on the site.
I saw that it also made its way onto Metafilter - did you by any chance have anything to do with that?
Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at once, go-until-mistake, etc.).
I have some experience crawling+processing Wikipedia dumps in python, if you ever find the need for a new sourcing system :) Email in bio!
> The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day.
Interesting. Can you share more technical details? Do you have for example a filter to avoid event of the same year?
> Metafilter
No, it was not me.
Correct, avoiding same year events. Also, excluding events that has been used in the past. Anything specific details you are wondering about?
> Anything specific details you are wondering about?
Nothing in particular, but if in few months you have some time, it may be interesting to read a blog post with more details. There are many details that no one realize until they try to write the code and that is usually a good starting point for a good blog post.
(As an example, I thought about the "same year" rule. But you probably have a rule to try to balance military and sport events, and perhaps more...)
TIMDLE Jun 24 35/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 6p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
Nice game, thanks!
Very cool! I wonder if a logarithmic version would be fun [0][1]
[0] https://victorpoughon.github.io/detailed-logarithmic-timelin...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
36/36 though two of the eight were lucky wild guesses.
I would be interested in a game like this where you order all 8 events and then get scored (similar to wordle). And then try again to put them in the right order, fewest attempts scores better.
Cool concept! It would be nice if after the game was complete the tiles linked to the wikipedia entry for each event so the player could learn more.
TIMDLE Jun 24 30/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 4p 3: 2p 7: 7p 4: 3p 8: 6p Play at https://timdle.com
Fun. Scored 35/36.
Have you considered an endless mode where you keep playing until you make a mistake?
If a game like this gets super popular can it be monetised?
Very fun game. Going to play again tomorrow.
Agreed! What was your score?
TIMDLE Jun 24 31/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 3p 4: 3p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
35/36. I don’t know if it is too easy
endless mode would be nice - you play until you make a mistake. How many historical events are available?
An endless mode could be implemented with a difficulty curve that increases gradually by introducing more obscure events or events with closer dates as the player progresses.
35/36 FTW!
That was fun.
so cool man!