Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically

FailMore

Nice, I enjoyed it. Fyi I think you should edit the title to be "Show HN: <title>". This will mean it will be on the /show ( https://news.ycombinator.com/show ) page.

jordanscales

Nice work! I'd consider ditching the AI art though, it was distracting.

AndrewKemendo

I like it! A quality old school learning game, like we had in the 90s I’m also a huge history guy so anything that helps people understand history better is great Was the goal just to make this for yourself and see how it goes?

tdb7893

How accurate are these pictures? I feel like I see ideas like this on HN pretty often and the art always gets things wrong. Like all the same clean armor during the first crusade seems doubtful and two swords on horseback just seems wacky. Two swords like that is dumb normally but also how do you control the horse lmao

wwalker2112

Very fun. Would you consider putting years on the timeline to match the events up to? I think from an education perspective it would be a great feature! Nice Work!

J0rdanius

Neat! I think with more events (~9) and obscure ones it would be more fun. I also think it would be fun to make it possible to play previous days. Bookmarked.

matt_daemon

NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...

steinvakt2

This, as well as the NYT game, is heavily inspired by https://www.timdle.com ?

defrost

Noodling kind of question, Share results / copy to Clipboard both seem to put the same string in the local clipboard: Hisorty #9 1/3 https://hisorty.app ( the six green squares don't render on HN ) ... which is still a string that can be readily edited. It's more resources your end to save game results for a specific play and generate a unique checksummed hash key for a third party URL lookup, sure, so I guess the question is how important is it for players to reliably share their results in a manner that is hard than a simple edit to 'cheat' on?

snarf21

Maybe I missed it but if I don't solve in time, it didn't show me the correct answers.

pixel_popping

Excellent name!

delichon

A fun variation would be to create the cards from social media posts or articles, stripped of dates. It's astonishing how little context the geoguessers need, I expect the same for chronoguessers.

coder97

Nice game. I can see myself playing this daily. How do you plan to feed the questions? Is it with AI or manual work?

emberfiend

cool game, maybe consider removing the eternally looping animation in the header, it's pretty visually distracting

everyone

awesome! but the one per day thing kills it for me.. I want to play like 10 in a row and then forget about it for a few months.

SkepticalWhale

Very cool! Consider adding a wikipedia link to each card after the game is over.

techsystems

Cool, I would play this Hopefully EMEA isn't all of history /s

sco1

Very fun! My family is a big fan of the Chronology card game ( https://buffalogames.com/chronology/ ), hopefully this helps me win next next time :)

natloz

Wow, just played my first game and I wild-guessed it and got it right in 1 attempt. Maybe time to go buy a lotto ticket...I honestly had no clue! Good job on the easy-to-use interface.