Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order
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·June 23, 2025NoboruWataya
Aspos
"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
pasc1878
First great to have non US questions. This is how we see many quizzes as too local. Would you have objected to an American Football question?
But Ireland have won the Grand SLam 4 times so could appear in several postions
So not a good question.
rkuykendall-com
> Would you have objected to an American Football question?
As an American not into sports, the only Football question I think would be of such historical significance to match the rest on this list would be "US Holds First Superbowl" or something.
leoc
Rugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
prerok
Neither is skiing or ski jumping, but it is limited in the sense of exposure. I bet most people would not be able to name the best ski jumper in 1995, but a lot of people in my country would.
btilly
For what it is worth, when I hear "Six Nations", I think "Iroquois Confederacy".
And as parochial as you think that American sports are, the USA has a population that is half again as big as the "Six Nations" that you intended. And here is an important fact. Most people in the world who speak English as their first language, live in the USA. The dominance of American perspectives in online conversations in English reflects our actual representation among native English speakers.
nesk_
I suppose you are American, this isn't obscur for Europeans at all.
olddustytrail
Is it not? Does the average German or Portuguese or Finnish person know about the 6 nations?
I genuinely don't know. It's obviously a thing in Scotland (where I'm from) but is it a thing in other European countries?
eej71
I hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series.
sunaookami
Am European, don't even know what a Six Nations Grand Slam is
shermantanktop
The -le genre is more specific - they are fixed-round guessing games, with cumulative clues accruing. It’s a great genre (which of course already existed) but if adding -le helps make more of them, that’s cool with me.
I play Heardle (guess the song from the first seconds) and Chordle (guess the chord spelling). Don’t play Wordle anymore, I got tired of it.
avoutos
The last event states Ireland "returns to rugby glory" suggesting it had won the grand slam before, but also there was a decent amount of time since the last win (return suggests a hiatus). This would exclude the original 1948 win.
mike-the-mikado
In 1948 it was the 5 Nations, not the 6 Nations (I assume that the question hasn't been rewritten since you saw it)
avoutos
Ah you're right, my bad. That could be lead to confusion then.
zahlman
> I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le"
https://dles.aukspot.com/ begs to differ.
carabiner
What, you don't know the classic game of Timd?
zdc1
UI issue: my window was resized to be quite short so I was clicking the dots completely unaware that the event I was placing was hidden in the y-overflow at the bottom of the page. Sometimes visible scroll bars are useful...
nonethewiser
There is a very simple game called "Timeline" that is basically this: https://www.zygomatic-games.com/en/game/timeline-classic/
Extremely simple. No barrier to entry.
darkvertex
Yeah! They sell many packs by genre (inventions, music, movies, science, etc) but what's neat is you can mix the cards of multiple genres and the game still works all the same. Very elegant concept.
tiagod
There's also https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
CrazyStat
NYTimes also has a very similar game called “Flashback”.
neuronflux
I enjoyed it.
My girlfriend's first reaction after getting 30/36 and seeing the neutral smiley face emoji was, "Wordle doesn't judge me."
mrgoldenbrown
This looks like an electronic version of the card game Chronology. Which is a great party game because it's easy to explain and you can play cooperatively if that fits your groups vibe better.
pmontra
36/36 with some luck.
The domain has been created on November 2024. Is this game inspired by the Trekking Through History boardgame [1] from 2022?
[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353288/trekking-through-...
xnx
Cool. I like the left to right timeline better than the bottom to top one of the New York Times Flashback: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/flashback
Artoooooor
"Something went wrong. Please try again later." These two already seem to be in chronological order :D
stuartjohnson12
Initial prompt confused me. Weimar hyperinflation happened before the cultural revolution in China. Clicked the blob that was labeled before. Wrong answer!
Left page.
Probably a skill issue but that was my experience.
maskinberg
TIMDLE Jun 23 34/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 0p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 7p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
gus_massa
32/36: Are you the author? People is friendlier when the author is around answering questions. How are the events selected? Some are well known and some are very local.
The point system is easier to explain if each unselected spot transform into a star that flies to the point counter.
MarkusQ
32/36 too.
Having very local/niche events (especially near the end, when there are lots of places to go wrong) makes it feel unballanced. If you wanted to make the game more strategic and less "gotcha," you might want to have all the events available at the same time, or have a "come back to this item" option that would allow the user more control.
On a related note, there are only about 40320 possible choice paths (8!), making it about as rich as tic-tac-toe (though the context certainly makes the player think more), far lower than something like Wordel's (26⁵)⁵. Adding more decisions might make people take more ownership of their wins.
maskinberg
Yes, I'm the author and this is a hobby project of mine. The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day. I have tried to come up with a large variety of categories, aiming to make it both interesting, challenging and fun for people from all over the world. But the span of categories could definitely be improved. I had a couple of iterations on both the points system and the layout a few months ago, and felt satisfied with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely take it into consideration for further work on the site.
I saw that it also made its way onto Metafilter - did you by any chance have anything to do with that?
bbor
Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at once, go-until-mistake, etc.).
I have some experience crawling+processing Wikipedia dumps in python, if you ever find the need for a new sourcing system :) Email in bio!
gus_massa
> The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day.
Interesting. Can you share more technical details? Do you have for example a filter to avoid event of the same year?
> Metafilter
No, it was not me.
qwertox
TIMDLE Jun 24 35/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 6p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
Nice game, thanks!
fouronnes3
Very cool! I wonder if a logarithmic version would be fun [0][1]
[0] https://victorpoughon.github.io/detailed-logarithmic-timelin...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
wavemode
36/36 though two of the eight were lucky wild guesses.
I would be interested in a game like this where you order all 8 events and then get scored (similar to wordle). And then try again to put them in the right order, fewest attempts scores better.
Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)
Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest time it happened was later than the next latest event but in another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?