Hemiscope Timeline

Timeline is one of the daily puzzles on Hemiscope, a small collection of geography, history and logic games made by Kyro Game Studios. The others include a country guessing game, a globe game, a stats game, a riddle safe and a ranking game, but Timeline is the one about history.

Each day's Regular puzzle has seven cards, each an event with no date: an invention, a war, a treaty, a discovery, a moment in sport or culture. The timeline starts with one anchor event already placed with its year, and the scale runs from 2560 BCE to the present. You drag each new card onto the timeline, or tap it and then tap a gap, earlier to the left and later to the right. A right card locks in green with its year shown; a wrong one slides to its true place in red and costs one of your three lives. Place all seven with a life left to win the day. Events from the same year count as right on either side of each other.

Easy has five cards, all from 1900 on and well known. The events come from a fact-checked bank of more than 240, so each day's set is new even though single events come round again. Everyone gets the same numbered set, and it changes at midnight in your own time zone. When you finish you get a grid of green and red squares to share, and Practice deals a fresh set whenever you want without touching your daily stats. An Answers page lists past days' solutions.

Progress is stored on your device and does not sync between the website and the iPhone app. The web version shows Google ads around the game, not over the board.