Place a photo in time and space

1. A fresh photograph loads from an open archive.
2. Inspect it — zoom in for detail if a clue is worth the cost.
3. Make your guess: a year, a map pin, a country, or a combination.
4. Submit to reveal the truth beside your answer, and your score.
5. Hit Next round and do it again.

• Date — pick the year on a slider (1826–2026); worth up to 5,000 points.
• Location — drop a pin on the map; scored by distance, up to 5,000 points.
• Country — name the country; full marks for the right one, partial for the right continent.
• Dual — do both date and location; the two scores combine 50/50.

On any map mode you can flip Hard mode to hide every place-name label on the map — no reading the answer off the tiles.

You get 3zooms per round to inspect the photo up close. Each new zoom depth lowers that round's maximum score by 10%. Zooming back out is free. For the full curves, see the scoring page.

A round keeps your streak alive if you score at least half of what was possible. Your streak, best score, and round count live only in this browser — nothing is sent to a server, and clearing your storage resets them.

Want an edge? Read our tips & strategy and the guides, or just start playing.