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, unless ten right in a row has won a life back first. Ten seconds to learn. A lot longer to master, and there is always another deck.

Best Picture winners. Get one right and its year turns over. Get one wrong and it slides to where it belonged, and you lose a life.

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 2,045 decks and 85,267 cards. Films by the year they reached theaters. 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. And the fandoms: WrestleMania main events and Royal Rumble winners, Survivor and Drag Race, Marvel and DC debuts, anime, Disney rides, Christmas songs, LEGO themes, sneakers, memes and TikTok trends. Some of it you will know cold. The rest is the part that pulls you in.

Tick any decks that measure the same thing and they shuffle into one game. Here, Pixar films, Elton John albums and spaceflight firsts share a single line.

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.

Hear it, then place it

On the music decks, switch on Listen and place. The card hides its title and plays a 30-second Apple Music preview instead, so you are dating the song by ear. The title turns over once the card lands.

Listen and place on the Songs deck. The recording is silent; on the site, the song plays.

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.

Pick a category, turn the card, place it. Clear all ten and the scorecard hands you a challenge link to send.

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.
Play it your way. Endless runs, where ten right in a row wins back a lost life, or a 20-card set with a grade at the end. Easy and Hard deal the cards players get right or miss most first. On the music decks, Listen and place plays an Apple Music preview with the title hidden.
Challenge any friend. Every finished run makes a link that deals the same cards in the same order, with your score to beat.
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, an independent studio that builds free games and tools for the browser. Its other sites share one idea: a simple format anyone can pick up, with room to fill it with whatever you care about.

TierMaker: make a tier list for anything and rank it from S down to F.
BracketFights: build a bracket and vote through each matchup until one pick is left standing.
TriviaCreator: write your own quiz, then play it solo or race friends live with a join code.
SpinWheelMaker: spin a random picker wheel, from ready-made picture wheels or one you build yourself.
AlignmentChart: build an alignment chart and let the crowd vote on what goes in every square.

Timeline Guesser brings that idea to putting things in order. One good mechanic, a library deep enough that there is always something new to sort, and no download or paywall in the way.

Got a deck idea, a subject worth adding, or a bug to report? Email [email protected]. Every message gets read.

Last updated: October 30, 2026