Daily history map puzzle
Which Year?
How to play
Every day there is one historical map, the same for everyone. Guess its year in six tries. Each guess tells you whether the map is earlier or later, and how close you are: within 100, 25, 5 or 1 years.
After three guesses you learn which atlas the map comes from; after five, a place in its story is pinned on the map. The full rules.
Where the maps come from
Each puzzle is a moment from one of the 21 interactive atlases on Maps of History, from the Roman Republic to the Arab Spring: who held which land, on that date. When you finish, open the same map in its atlas and read what happened.
Your streak
Your results, streak and statistics stay in this browser. Nothing to sign up for. Past days are in the archive, and practice gives you one more map whenever you want.