Yearbook

Yearbook is a daily guess-the-year game from Hindsight Games, laid out like a page from an old school yearbook. Each day one year between 1950 and the year before the current one is chosen, and four clues are written about things that happened in it: world events, politics, film, music and more.

The clues come in order from vaguest to most specific. You start with one and make a guess; if it is wrong, the next clue is revealed. You have one guess per clue, so four in all. After each guess the game tells you whether you were exact, one year off, within five, within ten or further, which helps you steer the next guess.

When the day is over you get a grade from A+ down, depending on which guess was right, and see how you scored against everyone else who played. The game also tracks your streak, kept in your browser, and past puzzles can be replayed from an archive. The clues are researched from Wikimedia's On This Day material and articles about each event, and each clue links to a source.

It suits players of Yeardle and Jaardle who like reasoning a year out from clues, especially anyone with a good memory for the second half of the twentieth century.