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

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Post by damiannn » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #7

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?

Yeah basically, I'm very curious to see if people will actually find this wordle-like history game interesting and if they'll stick to it.

But i also often find myself just staring at some of those images and eventually finding more about some of those on the internet.

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

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Post by wwalker2112 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:48 PM UTC

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!

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

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Post by sputknick » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:51 PM UTC

jordanscales wrote: post #5

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

I'll take the other side of this argument: I like the AI art. Easy way to make it more visually engaging

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

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Post by damiannn » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:52 PM UTC

wwalker2112 wrote: post #12

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!

That's actually not a bad idea, will definitely consider that.

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

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Post by J0rdanius » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:52 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by matt_daemon » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC

NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...

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

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Post by damiannn » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC

J0rdanius wrote: post #15

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.

yeah, i was considering it, but to be honest the only reason i decided to go with 6 event is to make it playable on mobile device with images big enough to see soemthing :D

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

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Post by elpocko » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 12:57 PM UTC

damiannn wrote: post #6

jordanscales wrote: post #5

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

I love those :D took me some time to come up with the custom prompt to make those images have that specific art style, but yeah, I understand that not everyone like s AI art

Not everyone likes daily games. I hate them. That shouldn't stop you from making a daily game. Ignore the haters.

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

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Post by steinvakt2 » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:01 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by defrost » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

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?