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Very fun, almost wish there were less overt cultural clues though. I got 3912 on the first go but it was mostly because I recognized Bowie and Le Corbusier, and got a theater marquee with Happy Gilmore playing. I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing styles and car models more.
This was ridiculously fun for me! I got 2827 as a score which isn't that great, but I nailed the year perfectly on 2/5. Super interesting!
Also nailed 2 out of 5, but managed a 4154 on my first go :D It's interesting to think about the epochal details our minds use to produce these guesses. Technology like the cars/cameras/phones present (or missing), the fashion styles on the people, the quality/sharpness of the image overall, face masks in post-2019 photos, etc.
Absolutely love these types of games. Geoguessr is another classic. EDIT: oof, just got the Columbine High School class photo.
Simple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the older the photo was. It’s a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910 apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.
Interesting, unless there was a major clue, I've had as much pain in both cases.
Love it! I got some terrible scores but then realized a good strategy is to judge a photo by its quality and aesthetics rather than the content.
Except when you don't do it. My first (and best) guess was one year off, because I guessed based on a specific war with a specific way of building trenches.
This is very similar to Wikitrivia: https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/ , which asks you to place general historical concepts/events on a timeline.
I fancy myself to be much more historically than most people and yeah… no. Consistently off by 5 years or so.