This is fun! I didn't immediately notice the time slider and thought it was just GeoGuessr with historical pictures, but the time element adds a whole new dimension.
I do the timeguessr daily every day almost as a ritual, it's fun, satisfying and educative.
It's also very interesting to watch people try after you've done it: how they catch on stuff you missed, their strategies to find and date things, or how they infuriatingly ignore whatever was the giveaway to you.
Just played 5 rounds. I wanted to see my score as ranked against others, but u didn't do that. That's like me saying here is 800 points for your post. There is no context for the score.
Yes, score rankings are missing. There's a leaderboard for the daily, but only shows accounts you have friended.
For reference, I tend to hover around 44k for the daily. 48k is a lucky/easy day, 40k some disaster happened. Under 40 is very rare. I like to think that would be above average, but without rankings I don't know :)
indeed, this is screaming for a leaderboard and eventual Geoguesser. Sadly I do believe the reasoning models can one shot this? Maybe would take away all the fun
I'm at 200 tries for the "Guess a wikipedia page" thing, completely exhausted, and not getting anywhere. Very frustrating, yet I can't bring myself to abandon it...
Took me 115. I guessed lots of general filler words to work out the structure of some sentences, and guessed lots of general subject words to find a few hits. The grey words that it fills in when they're related can be a bit misleading. I didn't get a single sentence complete before guessing the article.
Super fun! Would be cool to be able to challenge someone after going through a round. Also maybe clear CTA after round on way to sign up to save your score.
Some photos are off by at least 100 meters and it is surprising how easy a photo can be off a year so easily. I believe it happens because the easy timestamp is at the time of development, means you can easily be two years off. Also surprising how easy it is to get exact date and time of day on some of the photos.
That's like asking why a weather app needs both a date and city - the temperature on July 4th matters, but it's completely different in New York vs. Cairo. Same with this - the year sets the global context, but the location defines the local experience.
I couldn’t figure out how the time picker worked (and that there was a time picker) till the third round when I realised I was being penalized. Got 34k still.
This is fun! While some are obvious, and some you need to "cheat" by Googling - it's really fun looking at a part of the world you wouldn't normally browse a map of.
Love their selection of photos more than the competition -- more likely to contain giveaways like a famous location from an unusual angle or a subtle date, so it feels more like detective work than guesswork. Just wish it reset at midnight local.
Yeah I had issues with the mobile web version as well. Worked for 4 rounds but then the time selector stopped moving when I tried to select, and the map stopped loading detail when zooming in (and wouldn't let me place a pin). Started over and the same thing happened in the 3rd round.
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For reference, I tend to hover around 44k for the daily. 48k is a lucky/easy day, 40k some disaster happened. Under 40 is very rare. I like to think that would be above average, but without rankings I don't know :)
Just mentioning in case people are interested in alternatives / slightly different UX.
[1]: https://whentaken.com/
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715024
https://whichyr.com/
And here are other games in that style of 5-minutes cultural guesses:
https://framed.wtf/
https://gaps.wtf/
https://sutom.nocle.fr/
https://globle.org/?
https://worldlegame.io/?
https://flagle.gg/
https://phrazle.gg/
https://numberle.org/
Not working currently but guess a historical moment: https://www.historle.com/?#
Guess a wikipedia page: https://pedantle.certitudes.org
You can also use our app to create timeline ordering games on subjects of your own choosing.
Using Chrome on vanilla Android on Samsung.
https://whichyr.com/
One of the photos was someone holding a phone with Timeguessr on it. Still managed to get the date wrong - it was taken in 2024.
Still a great little game though