TimeGuessr (opens in new tab)

Scrolling with the mouse on the image (no Ctrl or anything, just scroll) zooms into the section of the image you're on, for anyone else trying "Open image in new tab" or other ways to zoom in.

I'm a big GeoGuessr fan, and had heard of TimeGuessr occasionally in those circles. I'd assumed it would be mostly pictures from the USA and so wasn't massively interested, and from trying it out now, I wasn't too far off: most of the images were from the US and Western Europe, and every single picture so far has been from a rich country. There are obvious reasons for that, and it's not a bad thing in some absolute terms, but it makes it kinda boring for me - the big appeal of GeoGuessr for me is that you routinely get dropped off in a country that you don't often think of, and momentarily get to see and imagine life through their eyes.

Maybe over time, TimeGuessr will also accumulate images from more varied places - or maybe one of the alternatives mentioned in this thread (whentaken and whichyr) already do better in that regard?

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 find the UX of Whichyr much better, but it doesn’t have the geographical component. But you see your final ranking on a gaussian curve and it’s fun!

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

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.

The game 'Whentaken' [1] follows the exact same concept.

Just mentioning in case people are interested in alternatives / slightly different UX.

[1]: https://whentaken.com/

Fun! I was surprised how often I was 1 year off and in the right city for things that I was just guessing about.

On small error I found: there's a photo that's outside Piazza Navona in Rome in the 30s, which it lists as being 700 meters away at Piazza Venezia. I know I'm correct -- I lived a street away from there.

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.

Out of curiosity, I wonder why the game chose Apple Maps. I would have expected OpenStreetMap. Interesting choice.

This is how it renders for me. https://imgur.com/a/kJmNMUR

Not quite the same but we created a timeline ordering game for US presidents: https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/1842261/US-Presiden...

You can also use our app to create timeline ordering games on subjects of your own choosing.

This is really cool.

However, my first photo said "Times Square, NY" in the corner, with a copyright for 1908 which gave it all away.

I just clicked to take a quick look, and suddenly found myself playing it's a simple but surprisingly enjoyable game

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.

Did not work too well for me on mobile. One time it did not scroll but went back, one time controls were missing

I absolutely love 3 dimensional nature of the game and how carefully many images are chosen to allow for a precise spacetime localization with a bit of a research. Super enjoyable experience in startling contrast with geogessr, which I don't even want to open. Thanks a ton!

Why do I have to pick both a location AND year? Why not focus this game on the year only?

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.

It wasn't really clear to me that you had to select the year as well as location. Because the year was already written in a red box, so I never tried to change it.

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.

30,592/50,000 is higher than I thought I'd get. This is fun!

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.

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.

There was a chalkboard menu in the picture with the date on it, but it said I was 50 years off. Meta data isn't always reliable.

That was really fun; I was pleasantly surprised with 43,165. Trusting intuition worked well.

Cute game! Needs an easy way to maximize the picture so you can see it full screen (on laptop).

It should be called "locationguessr" imo since that is what you are guessing.

Irretrievably hung my phone requiring a hard reset.

Using Chrome on vanilla Android on Samsung.

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.

41,481. Nice. That was a fun time waster.

I got lucky - I got the Hagia Sophia twice.

Great idea! What's the tech stack?

Nice. Got 30,527.

I guessed 2021 for one photo which turned out to be Joe Biden's inauguration fireworks. It tells me I was 20 years off?

Very fun!

love it