Timeline
Three hundred dated events, from the founding of Rome to ChatGPT. Put them in order, or guess which of two came first.
← → or click the older event
How to play
Put in order. Pick three, four or five events per round, then drag the cards from oldest, at the top, to most recent, at the bottom. The ↑ and ↓ arrows move the cards too. Confirm: each event in the right place scores a point, and the dates are revealed. A game has five rounds, and the dates get closer from round to round.
Before or after. Two events face off: the one on the left shows its date, and you say which came first. If the right one was the answer, it moves to the left and a new event arrives. The longer your streak, the closer the dates. One mistake and the streak ends.
Pick a theme: history, science and inventions, or culture and leisure (arts, film, music, comics, sport, video games and the web). At the end, see all the events of your game laid out on a timeline, with their dates.
Did you know?
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Teaching was already going on at Oxford by the end of the 11th century, long before Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325.
Before consoles, Nintendo made playing cards: the company was born the year of the Eiffel Tower.
The last mammoths, on Wrangel Island, were still alive when the first pyramids of Egypt were being built.
The first fax patent dates from 1843, more than thirty years before the telephone's.
Belgium is younger than the United States: its independence dates from 1830.