Past Puzzle
Four historical clues, one year: find it in four guesses.
Every day: One puzzle a day: four historical events from the same year, revealed one by one, and four guesses to name the year. New puzzle: Midnight in your local time zone (the game asks for the puzzle of the day with your time zone).
Past Puzzle is a daily history riddle in German and English. Each day you get historical events from one year as clues, one at a time, and after each clue you guess the year, with colours showing how close you are. You have four tries; supporters can also catch up on missed days and browse an archive.
About Past Puzzle
Past Puzzle is a daily guess-the-year game made in Germany, playable in German and English on the web and in apps for iPhone and Android. Each puzzle is built around one year. You see a first historical event as a clue and guess the year; colours then show how near your guess was, and the next clue appears.
There are four clues and four guesses. Every event comes with a historical picture and a link to read more, so a puzzle also works as a short history lesson. The game describes itself as inspired by word-guessing games and says it has no ads.
The daily puzzle is free. An optional supporter subscription lets you play missed puzzles, play more than one puzzle a day and explore past events in an archive, and adds a supporter badge to shared results.
It suits players of Yeardle and Jaardle, and German speakers looking for a daily history puzzle in their own language.
How to play Past Puzzle
- Open pastpuzzle.de or the app and start the puzzle of the day.
- Read the first historical event.
- Type the year you think it happened.
- Check the colour feedback for how close you were, then read the next clue.
- Find the year within four guesses and share your result.
Tips
- Use the colour feedback to halve the range with each guess rather than moving one decade at a time.
- Later clues are usually easier to place, so a rough first guess costs little.
- Follow the reading link after a puzzle: the same eras come up again.
Questions
Is Past Puzzle in English?
Yes. The game is in German and English.
How many guesses do I get?
Four, one after each clue.
Is it free?
The daily puzzle is free and without ads. An optional subscription adds missed puzzles, extra puzzles and an archive.
Is there an app?
Yes, on the App Store and Google Play.
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