About Timeline Guesser
Timeline Guesser is a free ordering game you play in the browser. You get a card, and a row of cards already sitting on the table. Slot yours where it belongs: by release date, chart year, draft year, Pokédex number, distance, calories, whatever that deck happens to measure. Miss three times and the run is over. Ten seconds to learn. A lot longer to master, and there is always another deck.
One game, a thousand subjects
Most ordering games do one thing. Music, or movies, or historical events, and that is the whole game. This one runs a single mechanic across more than 1,300 decks and 60,000 cards. Films by the year they reached theatres. Whole TV runs. Full discographies, and the songs that defined a decade. Novels by their authors, video games and consoles, Magic and Pokémon sets by release, world history, the tallest mountains, F1 drivers by their debut season, the distance between cities, the calories in your lunch, the Pokédex. Every current NFL, NHL, MLB and NBA team has a deck too, ordered by the year each player arrived, alongside the all-time stat leaders. Some of it you will know cold. The rest is the part that pulls you in.
Now with the artwork
Album sleeves, movie and TV posters, book jackets, game box art. They sit on the front of the card now, across hundreds of decks. Ordering the Beatles record by record, or a director's films by eye, is a different thing when you know the cover before you read the title. It stops feeling like a trivia drill and starts feeling like flipping through a collection.
The Daily Lineup
One shared puzzle a day: ten cards pulled from across the whole library onto a single timeline. A film, an album, a moon landing, a world record. Everyone plays the same deal. Clear it to keep your streak going, and the streak multiplies your score. When you finish, one tap copies a challenge link. Whoever opens it plays the exact same lineup, sees the number they have to beat, and gets a head-to-head verdict at the end.
Play with the people you know
A daily score is more fun as a rivalry than as a number on a wall. Start a crew, which is just a private group of friends, and every leaderboard narrows to its members. A commit-style grid tracks who cleared each day over the last four weeks, so a missed square shows up in front of your friends instead of the entire internet. Want it live? Open a room and race the same deal in real time.
What you get
- Breadth that lasts. A one-topic game is used up in a week. A thousand-plus decks means there is always a subject you have not touched.
- Mix decks into one timeline. Any decks measured on the same scale shuffle together, so you can order films against albums against world events on a single line. Nothing single-subject does that.
- A real daily habit. One puzzle a day, a streak worth protecting, and a link that turns your score into a dare.
- Cover art, not just text. Real posters, sleeves, jackets and box art on the card face.
- Friends, not strangers. Crews scope every board to your group, and the grid keeps everyone honest.
- Collections and league pages. Browse by theme (actors, directors, discographies, franchises), or open a league and order any team's roster and its record-holders.
- Build your own. Make a deck on any subject and share it. The library grows past what we ship.
- Sourced, checked data. Card values come from public reference data: MusicBrainz, TMDB, Wikidata, Open Library, the Ergast Formula 1 archive, and more. Everything is audited for playability, so a correct answer stays correct.
- Free and instant. No download, no paywall. It runs in the browser and keeps your progress on the device you played on, or across all of them once you sign in.
Who makes it
Timeline Guesser is made by Tastier Adventures, a small studio that builds free browser games. The idea is simple: one good mechanic, a library deep enough that there is always something new to order, and no download or paywall standing in the way. Got a deck idea, a subject worth adding, or a bug to report? Email [email protected]. Every message gets read.