I tried playing again, but how?! I am presented with the last play stats, but see no way to play again.
I can share, or get all time stats. That's all.
Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
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Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#112I created a similar game a couple years ago for guessing the year of an object in the Met’s collection. Would love any feedback if people want to try it. https://davidfdriscoll.github.io/met-chronoguesser/
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#113One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0 How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?
I got 3.2. Spoilers below.
Round 1 I just guessed in the middle of the 70s.
Round 2 I was 5 years off, but I should have been able to get closer if I'd slowed down. Someone with a better knowledge of modern Middle Eastern uprisings or Arabic could have read the signs, but also the tech in everyone's hands was pretty closely dated.
Round 3 was pretty clearly the London Blitz—the uniform was WW2 era and people were piled on top of each other in a London Tube station—which narrowed it down to basically a single year.
Round 4 was another guess-the-decade shot, I was 6 years off (I guessed 1940). Had I thought about it harder it would have been unlikely to have been taken during WW2, which would have bumped my guess up a few years to be closer.
Round 5 was a bunch of protesters who were pretty clearly in the mid-to-late 2000s (cell phone in the background), and the topic of their protest was gay marriage which had a single very important flashpoint in that decade with Prop 8 in 2008.
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#114I love this idea so much and would make this one of my daily games.
FWIW: The jankiness of the slider feels quite jarring, given it’s the sole interactive element. It makes the thing difficult to stick with. On my iPhone 12, it lags way behind and the numbers update at like 10fps.
I really hope this keeps getting daily images added.
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#115That was fun and definitely a bit challenging to figure out—I scored 3677, landing in the top 46%, with an average of 9.2 years. As for some (hopefully constructive) feedback: I think the year selection slider could benefit from a few adjustments. If an image is from the distant past—say, pre-1950s—it might make more sense to use decade-based precision rather than individual years. For example, a black-and-white phot…
Hi, I made this game. Really appreciate the feedback! Seems like older images tend to be frustrating, so I think I'll use them less going forward. Also, older photos are scored more generously, so being a few decades off won’t tank your score nearly as much as it would on a newer one.
I got that London blitz photo bang on. The older photos are fun.
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#116One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0 How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?
4586 Avg. years off 5
I felt like I should have been able to be closer. The images wouldn't zoom on my phone though. I'm impressed by three years off but would consider it quite possible for somone who knows their history.
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#117I love this idea so much and would make this one of my daily games. FWIW: The jankiness of the slider feels quite jarring, given it’s the sole interactive element. It makes the thing difficult to stick with. On my iPhone 12, it lags way behind and the numbers update at like 10fps. I really hope this keeps getting daily images added.
Also laggy on my iPad Air.
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0 How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?
I averaged 5 years off, but my average would have been much better without one photo that I botched by 16 years because I'm unfamiliar with early 19th century swimsuit styles. There were 2 major world events represented, that helps. Clothing style helps.
If you guessed the 19th century, you were off by a bit more than 16 years.
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#119One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0 How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?
Score 4722 Avg. Years Off 2.6 here. Spoilers: I got two exactly right (Arab Spring, Battle of Britain) and one off by a year (dancing). The two exacts were pretty obviously tied to specific dated events, and I both love history and have a pretty easy time remembering dates. I love this sort of game, as I do trivia, history trivia especially.
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#120I created a similar game a few years ago for guessing the year of an object in the Met’s collection. Would love any feedback if people want to try it.
What is Mets collection?