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Guess the Year: Tech Edition
A timeline game of 10 tech milestones. Read the card, drag the year, and see how far off you were. Play a random round, or today's shared 10. Nothing you guess is uploaded.
- Read the card A milestone in words, plus a small drawing. No logos.
- Name the year Drag the slider, type it, or use the arrow keys.
- See the gap Exact is 100. The fact tells you what the year marks.
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Up to 100 a card
Best on this device: none yet.
No daily score yet for this UTC date.
Today's 10 use the UTC date, so friends on that calendar day get the same cards.
A timeline you can play
Each card is one milestone, told in a sentence or two. The drawing is type, color, and a generic mark. There are no product logos and no borrowed photos. The year is the thing you supply. Lock it in and the card names the documented year, how many years you missed by, and one fact about that date.
An exact year is 100 points. The score falls as the gap grows: a miss of about a dozen years is still worth a few dozen points, and a miss large enough to round under one point scores zero. Ten cards make a round, so a perfect round is 1000. The rank is that total. The decade line looks at the real years, averages your points inside each decade, and names the decade you know best. A tie goes to the decade with more cards, then to the earlier one.
The same ten, on purpose
Daily mode does not call a server. This page hashes the UTC date and deals 10 cards from that number, so two people on the same UTC calendar day get the same order. A random round is a fresh shuffle. Play again on a daily date keeps the higher score for that date. The best score is the best round on this device, daily or random.
The set runs from the telephone and the bulb through networks, games, discs, and the recent chat tools. Where a lab date and a public date disagree, the fact says which one the year marks. The first-website card is one of those: the reveal separates the day the page was already running from the day the wider internet was told.
What a round keeps
Guesses disappear when you leave or deal again. This browser can keep the best total and the daily total, and Clear saved scores deletes both. If a later save fails, the status says this browser is not keeping the latest score.
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FAQ
Does this upload my guesses?
No. The game runs in your browser. The only things saved are your best score and the daily score for the UTC date you played, in this browser's local storage. Individual guesses are not stored and are not sent anywhere.
How is the score calculated?
An exact year is 100 points. The score then falls with distance: each year off multiplies the remaining score by a curve that is about 37 points at 12 years away, and anything that would round below 1 point becomes 0. A round is 10 cards, so the top score is 1000.
What is daily mode?
Today's 10 is a fixed set of cards chosen from the UTC calendar date, computed in this browser. A friend who opens the game on that same UTC date gets the same cards in the same order. There is no server and no account. Play again on the same date keeps the higher daily score.
Are the years checked?
Yes. Each card uses a widely documented calendar year, and the reveal adds a one-line fact. Where a day is settled, the fact names it. Where historians split a public unveiling from lab work, the card says which event the year marks. It is a quiz, not a citation list.
How do the slider and keyboard work?
Drag the slider or type a four-digit year. Arrow keys move one year, and Shift plus an arrow, or Page Up and Page Down, moves ten. Enter locks the year. The same steps are buttons, so a screen reader can play without dragging. After the reveal, Next card moves on, and Enter does too when focus is not already on a button.
Where do the best score and the daily score live?
Only in this browser. Clear saved scores deletes both. Clearing site data for cyberscryb.com removes them too. The game does not ask for an account, and leaving the page drops the current round.