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Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by ireadmevs » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC

world2vec wrote: post #7

I love this! One of the wrong answers was because I mis-clicked the location. Another one had an inscription saying "1695" and I confidently picked that time bracket (was very wrong!). Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026 YYGYRRYGGY 50,130 · top 90% of players today!

Really fun! Feels great when your hunch pays off, but most of the time it didn’t. I’ll be certainly playing it more often! Joining the share here:

Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026

YYBGYYRGGB

61,616 · top 66% of players today!

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by dodecacat » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC

Wonderful game! mmooss & mortenjorck have good suggestions.

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by andai » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

damienmeur wrote: post #17

Very cool ! Would be nice to have some explanation after answers on the objects so that I learn something, but pretty addictive and nice UI!

It reveals a link to a page with more information, after you guess, and embeds an excerpt from that page, although they're a bit vague and general. Usually with a bit of scrolling I can find the part where it says what the thing actually is.

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by pattilupone » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC

That was a lot of fun. Top 74%, woohoo!

I should really get in the habit of playing this game and geoguesser.

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by damienmeur » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

cyclopeanutopia wrote: post #20

damienmeur wrote: post #17

Very cool ! Would be nice to have some explanation after answers on the objects so that I learn something, but pretty addictive and nice UI!

> pretty addictive Is that good now? :(

This is 10min of attention of mine that didnt went into doom scrolling bulls*t on social medias, I guess it s positive :)

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by pimlottc » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

The timeline is not readable on narrow desktop windows (e.g. when you have two windows tiled side-by-side, but not so narrow as to switch to the mobile layout). The labels for the years overlap each other so it's very hard to read.

Fun game, though!

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by sosodev » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

I wonder how many people are using external resources when playing this. I have a hard time believing that the average lumps so far to the right of the score distribution unless this game is played exclusively by anthropologists haha.

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by wsgeorge » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:30 PM UTC

Honestly surprised by this outcome. My geo estimates were way better than my period estimates.

Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026

64,056 · top 55% of players today!

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by aabhay » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

It’s funny how much of a “ChatGPT tell” that thin weight accent header is. Sol seems to place that on _everything_.

Re: Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?

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Post by tobr » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

Looks like I should feel decent about my 72 083! Got a perfect 10k on two questions which surprised me.

Fun game, but 10 objects felt a little much for a daily challenge I think.