Games like TimeGuessr: daily where-and-when photo games

WhenTaken is the closest match: five photos a day, a pin on the map and a year on a slider, with the same set for everyone. Erapin works the same way with five historical photos presented as a dossier of events, so the pictures lean towards news and history rather than everyday street scenes. Picle, from The Times, gives one photo a day from its picture archive and scores you out of 100; it needs a subscription.

If you are better at years than places, the date-only games are next. Chronophoto has five photos a day and up to 1,000 points each for the year alone. Which Year asks for the year of five photos taken between 1850 and 2025. Retrofoto from La Nación uses three pictures from its own archive on a themed day.

For something more like GeoGuessr, HistoryGuesser and EraGuessr put you inside 360 degree scenes from the past: look around, then pin where and set when. Whenere asks the same two questions about three historical events on a 3D globe, without a photo to go on.

If you would like objects instead of photographs, Artifact Guesser and Anthropeum show museum pieces to place in space and time. Start with WhenTaken alongside TimeGuessr, and add Chronophoto for a quick years-only round.