WasThatBefore

WasThatBefore is a daily timeline puzzle. Each numbered puzzle has a theme, such as Exploration, and five event cards with a small picture and a label for history, science or sport. You drag them into chronological order, earliest at the top and latest at the bottom.

When you lock in an order, each card lights green if it is in the right place and red if not, and you have three attempts to get them all right. Hard mode, switched on before your first guess, gives no feedback between attempts but scores one and a half times as much for a correct order. Points go towards a rank, and a streak counts your days.

The site's line is that most people get it wrong: events from different fields are hard to set against each other, so knowing the date of a railway, a book and a sporting first separately is not the same as knowing which came first.

Alongside the Global puzzle there are separate daily editions for the USA, the UK, the EU and Australia with their own events, and state packs (Missouri, New South Wales and others) that go into local history, sport and culture. A calendar opens past puzzles, and a random button deals an extra set.

The site describes itself as an independent project. It is free, needs no account, and shows no ads.