[HN Gopher] Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
Author : trymas
Score : 583 points
Date : 2025-04-17 10:42 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (whichyr.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (whichyr.com)
| dtagames wrote:
| This is fun! Thanks for the post.
|
| I got a score of 3740 and an average of 10 years off.
| MisterBastahrd wrote:
| 7.2 years off on average. First 3 were 3, 1, and 1 year off
| respectively. Last two blew my momentum.
| pekim wrote:
| That was fun. I got a score of 4174, and an average of 6.2 years
| off. Clothes and hair styles were quite helpful in 3 of the
| pictures.
|
| I'll definitely take a look at it tomorrow.
| Jolter wrote:
| This is exactly the same game as chronophoto.app, as far as I can
| tell, except with way better UX and as a "daily challenge" type
| game. Well done, anyway! It's a fun game.
| fsargent wrote:
| Now is there anything which will take this, run it through ML and
| then find a date for all of my scanned family photos?
| codecutter wrote:
| This is really fun. My score was 4307 (top 12%) with average 5.8
| years off.
| peripitea wrote:
| Tried plugging it into the new o3 model out of curiosity and it
| got 0.2, i.e. it got everything exactly right save for one that
| it missed by a year.
| delusional wrote:
| You know, there are easier ways to cheat at the game? The
| photos are from the internet, a reverse image search will
| surface all of them.
| mr_mitm wrote:
| I read it as more of an experiment to gauge the capabilities
| of AI than an attempt at cheating.
|
| I'm impressed that AI is that good.
| codetrotter wrote:
| Is it good, or are those photos already in the training
| data that the model was trained on?
|
| Would be interesting to see how well it would fare on five
| photos from different years, using pictures that have never
| previously been uploaded anywhere.
| scrollop wrote:
| Why would s/he come here to boast about cheating on a game?
| S/he was obviously testing the AI.
| nurina wrote:
| This was fun
| meatjuice wrote:
| Very fun, but I'm horrible at this
|
| WhichYear 4/20/25 3045 pts 13 avg. years off
| 4
|
| whichyr.com
| omneity wrote:
| I thought hackernews strips out emojis, interesting.
| naitgacem wrote:
| There are indeed no emojis on that comment for me, are you
| using a different client?
| omneity wrote:
| I can actually see the emoji for number 4 on iOS Safari.
|
| It's in the 3rd line, the one before the website url
| (penultimate).
| naitgacem wrote:
| On Firefox Windows I see the number 4 with some line over
| it.
| Einenlum wrote:
| I love it. Just too bad you can't zoom in the picture on mobile.
| Had to open the picture on a new tab.
| jjbinx007 wrote:
| I could zoom in okay on Chrome for Android but I always enable
| zoom override in accessibility so it might be that.
| jonwinstanley wrote:
| I pinched the page and it zoomed ok
| rasso wrote:
| Zooming in worked for me in Arc on iPhone
| usr1106 wrote:
| Usability on mobile Firefox was not great.
| szenrom wrote:
| In Firefox, you can now go into Accessibility options and
| enable zooming on all sites which should help, it did for me.
| pngeez wrote:
| This is great to know, thanks! Will hopefully have it working
| for tomorrow's challenge.
| Einenlum wrote:
| (I used Brave on Android)
| pndy wrote:
| I've got 4861 (top 2% ~3 years off)
|
| If someone likes additional challenge then Teuteuf Games'
| WhenTaken has both guessing the year and location:
| https://teuteuf.fr/
|
| They also got Worldle which was covered on hn -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30367906
| me_bx wrote:
| Yes, the extra challenge of having to guess the place really
| adds some fun in WhenTaken. Direct link to it:
| https://whentaken.com/game
| uxcolumbo wrote:
| Fun game.
|
| Suggestions:
|
| Make the logo clickable so it goes to the homepage
|
| On the sharing stats page, add a link to start the game, e.g. if
| I send the link to someone to challenge my score, there needs to
| be an easy way to start the game.
| j1elo wrote:
| What do the last emoji numbers mean when you share your results?
|
| Below my points, and how many avg years off, I got a dartboard,
| then "6", "3", emoji of a blind man walking, then "6".
| tetha wrote:
| I think those indicate how far off that guess was. I have a
| dartboard when I guessed the year exactly right, numbers 1 and
| 3 matching these years off, and a blind man for >10 years off
| or around there.
| j1elo wrote:
| Yes, I confirmed it with the results from other friends. Very
| unintuitive, though. Just saying "Accuracy:" before the
| emojis, would give a good enough hint of what those mean.
| aweiher wrote:
| Using the blind man with probing cane emoji to signify losing
| in a game is really disappointing
| redbell wrote:
| That was fun and definitely a bit challenging to figure out--I
| scored 3677, landing in the top 46%, with an average of 9.2
| years.
|
| As for some (hopefully constructive) feedback: I think the year
| selection slider could benefit from a few adjustments. If an
| image is from the distant past--say, pre-1950s--it might make
| more sense to use decade-based precision rather than individual
| years. For example, a black-and-white photo had me way off that
| caused me to lose 20 years of my life :). It would be helpful if
| such images were categorized more broadly, something like "191x".
|
| For mid-century images (roughly 1960-1990), a 5-year interval
| could strike a better balance. I came across one from that era
| and was six years off. And for more recent images, say post-2010,
| a one-year precision feels reasonable.
|
| Of course, this suggestion mainly applies if we're deducing the
| year based on visual cues like clothing, hairstyles, and the
| environment. If the game is intended more as a quiz based on the
| text descriptions under the images, then it shifts more into
| trivia territory--and that's a different type of challenge
| altogether.
| dmos62 wrote:
| The score takes the magnitude of error into account. Isn't it
| nice that guessing the precise year is more rewarded than
| guessing the decade?
| pngeez wrote:
| Hi, I made this game. Really appreciate the feedback! Seems
| like older images tend to be frustrating, so I think I'll use
| them less going forward.
|
| Also, older photos are scored more generously, so being a few
| decades off won't tank your score nearly as much as it would on
| a newer one.
| frereubu wrote:
| This is fun. One tiny bit of UI feedback - when maximising
| the image, I'd expect the escape key to go back to the game,
| and found it a bit frustrating when it didn't.
| Al-Khwarizmi wrote:
| For the record, I especially enjoyed the older photos. Maybe
| it's just a matter of making it obvious in the UI that they
| penalize less, so that score maximizers won't be annoyed with
| them.
| bbarnett wrote:
| Yes! Games are to be fun, but for many the challenge is
| fun.
| asdf12341 wrote:
| Hi, I think you should credit the photographer of these as
| well.
| darkerside wrote:
| I disagree with all of that feedback. Might be because I got
| top 3%. I don't mean this in a mean way, but it sounds like
| sour grapes to me!
| Rapzid wrote:
| I got that London blitz photo bang on. The older photos are
| fun.
| lolinder wrote:
| No, don't stop using the older images! They were the most fun
| for me! Reasoning about the political landscape that would
| have led to the beach photo was challenging and rewarding
| when I got it right. And the London Blitz photo was also a
| ton of fun to see and think about.
| gradascent wrote:
| Adding to the chorus: I like the older images and the precise
| year is important! The underground shelter is something that
| wouldn't exist just a few years after that photo, or before.
| lostlogin wrote:
| > The underground shelter is something that wouldn't exist
| just a few years after that photo, or before.
|
| It's probably there now, it's the London Underground.
| satiric wrote:
| 4878, avg 2.4 years off. Way better than I thought I'd do, I
| think I just got lucky. I agree that it's a lot like
| chronophoto.app, but that also has freeplay. This has a nicer
| looking UI but I think a worse feature set. In particular the
| scroll-to-zoom and freeplay on chronophoto are nice to have.
|
| Edit: I had seen the photo in the subway before, or something
| very similar. It's an interesting decision to use photos from big
| events that people might recognize. (Not inherently bad IMO, just
| not what I would have intuitively chosen)
| pngeez wrote:
| Thanks! This is all super helpful. I'm hoping to have something
| like Chronophoto's zoom working by tomorrow's game, and a
| freeplay-style mode is in the works too.
|
| Do you think it's more satisfying to guess based on clues like
| tech, clothing, and photo quality, or when you recognize the
| historical event or era (assuming it's something a little less
| recognizable than that subway photo)?
| satiric wrote:
| I think both are good, it's nice to have variety. It was very
| satisfying as a user to think that the photo of all the
| people might be of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, then end
| up getting the year exactly right. Some photos are inherently
| gonna be easier to tell than others. Wartime photos can have
| a fun game of "figure out which war it is based on the
| equipment". I think the problem with the subway photo is that
| it's a very memorable situation, to use subway tunnels as
| shelters. But there are plenty of wartime photos that aren't
| gonna be that way.
|
| I also like trying to figure out where the photo was taken,
| even if that isn't strictly part of the game. So I'm glad
| that the photo caption is there.
| atoav wrote:
| A fun (hard) addition to that would be the color photography by
| Sergey Prokusin-Gorsky because the picture quality is so out of
| its time (~1900) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-
| Gorsky#Galle...
| pyfon wrote:
| Oof what! They are like a modern phone camera almost. Much
| better than 80s film cameras. A lot of work must have gone into
| that.
| kzrdude wrote:
| Thanks, got very lucky in the sense that they were recognizable
| events mostly, except the ladies on the beach, so was 1.2 years
| off.
| dmos62 wrote:
| Agreed. The beach goers threw me too. (Spoiler) I was off by 20
| years.
| cs02rm0 wrote:
| Likewise, 29 years out for that, everything else within a
| couple of years.
|
| Probably didn't help that I'm not American so the cultural
| references aren't there.
| telesilla wrote:
| As someone with interest in fashion and social politics, I got
| that photo year within 2 years difference. Many photos here are
| largely identifiable as political events but certainly helps to
| have a fashion background as others have commented in this
| thread.
| djmips wrote:
| I did OK, didn't try to hard but was surprised at how good people
| are at this!
| pembrook wrote:
| Great idea! The trick is to zoom into peoples clothing, and then
| the associated event becomes quite obvious. Eg. Photo of Disco,
| no crazy lapels, obviously towards the end of disco, which puts
| you within a year or two.
|
| Might have gotten lucky but zooming in on clothing got me to 1.8
| years off on average (top 2%).
| david-gpu wrote:
| Pinch to zoom didn't work for me on Firefox for Android, and
| neither did double tapping.
| nly wrote:
| Me either. Squinting at it didn't help.
| SlackSabbath wrote:
| Settings > Accessibility > Zoom on all websites
| exhilaration wrote:
| Thanks!!!
| qw wrote:
| It doesn't work for me either (Android+Chrome)
| janwillemb wrote:
| Long press the picture, open image in new tab. Then you can
| zoom.
| Jensson wrote:
| I just went by feel of each and got 2.4 year average, also top
| 2%. I guess it doesn't do higher than top 2% then.
|
| > obviously towards the end of disco
|
| What is the end of disco?
| frereubu wrote:
| I presume OP meant towards the end of the disco era.
| input_sh wrote:
| Disco is probably the only genre whose "death" (as in very
| quick drop from being mainstream) can be traced to a very
| specific date: July 12th, 1979.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night
| Al-Khwarizmi wrote:
| Interesting. Can we organize an event to blow up reggaeton
| records (or trap, or latin urban, or whatever they call it
| now - sounds all similar to me) and hope for it to go away?
| input_sh wrote:
| Personally, I'd prefer for a young white male demographic
| to not riot against music primarily associated with
| certain marginalised communities anymore.
| zamadatix wrote:
| I'm not sure why that would mean it doesn't go higher than
| top 2%, it would only imply the scores you ended up with were
| in the same percentage bracket.
|
| Confirming this, it looks like you indeed get top 0% when you
| end on a perfect score of 5000 with an average of 0 years
| off.
| alcover wrote:
| 4920 here. Waiting for contenders ;)
|
| More seriously I often wonder how this works in the brain when
| there is no obvious historical clue. Is it akin to guessing a
| numerical quantity (like when seeing a crowd) ?
| ratatoskrt wrote:
| Very clever idea! This was fun!
| TrackerFF wrote:
| One interesting observation is how much less variation there has
| been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005
| could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just
| wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for
| haircuts.
|
| Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 -
| 2000, etc.
|
| edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
| 2mlWQbCK wrote:
| Is that really true? It is true for me, but I always assumed
| that is just because I were younger last century. In 1990 I
| could easily tell if someone was looking like 1980, but today I
| could never guess if someone looked like 2015 or 2025. I would
| be happy to learn that this is because fashion actually slowed
| down, but until proven wrong I will just assume it is because I
| am older and not paying attention.
| Jensson wrote:
| > could never guess if someone looked like 2015 or 2025.
|
| If you don't think the younger generation dress crazily then
| fashion didn't change. Every previous generation thought the
| next generations clothes were crazy.
| simgt wrote:
| > I could never guess if someone looked like 2015 or 2025
|
| It's the length of the socks
| trinix912 wrote:
| And the width of the pants
| btbuildem wrote:
| And the length of the pants vs the socks
| thfuran wrote:
| How long are socks supposed to be now?
| manfromchina1 wrote:
| Apparently Gen Z prefer crew socks as opposed to
| millennial ankle socks.
| calderwoodra wrote:
| It's easier to identify women's fashion among millennials
| imo:
|
| 2000's: jeans
|
| 2010's: leggings
|
| 2020's: not those
| rafram wrote:
| It's because you were younger. As a "Gen Z" person, there's a
| huge difference between 2010s fashions and the fashions of
| today.
| jillesvangurp wrote:
| It's an interesting phenomenon that you can observe with other
| things as well like tastes in music. I think it has something
| to do with people having access to about sixty years of people
| trying out just about everything they could think off. It's all
| been done before at this point and it's all available in new
| and fresh forms. So, it's no longer about collectively picking
| something that is genuinely new but individuals cherry-picking
| whatever that they like. And it helps of course that we're not
| funneling media through a handful of TV channels, newspapers,
| etc. anymore like we used to. So people cherry pick where they
| get their information as well.
| numa7numa7 wrote:
| > It's all been done before
|
| Until something new is done ;)
|
| The sound pallette is just about infinite with what's
| possible.s.
|
| I think modern music has become homogenous because true art
| is risky and won't pass a modern focus group.
| dgfitz wrote:
| I keep waiting for inside-out clothes to be a thing.
| Hipsters were getting close at one point.
| fsckboy wrote:
| back around 2002 I had some T shirts from the Gap (so,
| pretty mainstream) that had the visible stitching and
| tags look like the shirt was inside out; sort of a
| duplicate in that if you actually wore them inside out
| they still looked inside out. the only way to really tell
| was the little washing instructions tag on the inside.
|
| i really liked them, was sad when they went away
| conception wrote:
| Probably more that's it's much easier to market and sell
| something that's been done before than come up with something
| new. Also our supply chains are highly specialized for the
| stuff we currently make. In 3-5 years we will see bell shaped
| pants back again as we go from 90's repeats to 00's repeats
| which were 70's repeats. Etc etc.
| HelloMcFly wrote:
| Perhaps another less depressing reason is the intersection
| of two things:
|
| 1) For all its negatives, online culture makes it easier to
| find and acknowledge different groups with different tastes
| that share yours, you're not as subject to having to "fit
| in" just with those near you. Maybe another way to say it
| is that fewer things are "weird" because it's easy to find
| others doing something similar
|
| 2) The availability of styles is not quite as bottlenecked
| into a limited number of taste-makers like it used to be.
| computerdork wrote:
| For me, think it's probably more your second idea, that we're
| not funneling media through a handful of TV channels,
| newspapers, etc. anymore like we used to. This creates (for
| better or worse) more of a "group think" mentality, since
| they've all seen the same tv shows and movies, and become
| more in sync with their views on all things, cultural,
| political... So people's sense of fashion is also in sync as
| well as the need to fit in.
| pyb wrote:
| This cultural phenomenon is sometimes called "the Long 90s"
| cheschire wrote:
| Well there's very little "common" cultural influence these
| days. It used to be that you could see a significant episode of
| a TV show and EVERYONE was talking about it the next day in the
| office. Now you're lucky if you can even find one person that
| has seen the show you're even talking about, let alone if they
| are "caught up" on it since many people prefer to buffer a few
| episodes while they watch other things.
| victor106 wrote:
| Agreed, I think the last of the shows where everyone talked
| about was Game of Thrones.
| ksec wrote:
| >edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
|
| How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought
| guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last
| digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing
| something?
| echoangle wrote:
| For some images, it involves some luck. But one image was
| WWII for example, that one is much easier to get accurately.
| macintux wrote:
| I averaged 5 years off, but my average would have been much
| better without one photo that I botched by 16 years because
| I'm unfamiliar with early 19th century swimsuit styles.
|
| There were 2 major world events represented, that helps.
| Clothing style helps.
| earthtograndma wrote:
| If you guessed the 19th century, you were off by a bit more
| than 16 years.
| macintux wrote:
| And here I complain about people erroneously specifying
| EST all summer along. They're only off by 1 hour.
| kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote:
| I skip specifying Standard or Daylight time altogether,
| and just use ET (or CT, MT, etc). Much easier on my
| brain, and nobody actually cares which they're in at the
| moment.
| lolinder wrote:
| I got 3.2. Spoilers below.
|
| Round 1 I just guessed in the middle of the 70s.
|
| Round 2 I was 5 years off, but I should have been able to get
| closer if I'd slowed down. Someone with a better knowledge of
| modern Middle Eastern uprisings or Arabic could have read the
| signs, but also the tech in everyone's hands was pretty
| closely dated.
|
| Round 3 was pretty clearly the London Blitz--the uniform was
| WW2 era and people were piled on top of each other in a
| London Tube station--which narrowed it down to basically a
| single year.
|
| Round 4 was another guess-the-decade shot, I was 6 years off
| (I guessed 1940). Had I thought about it harder it would have
| been unlikely to have been taken during WW2, which would have
| bumped my guess up a few years to be closer.
|
| Round 5 was a bunch of protesters who were pretty clearly in
| the mid-to-late 2000s (cell phone in the background), and the
| topic of their protest was gay marriage which had a single
| very important flashpoint in that decade with Prop 8 in 2008.
| ksec wrote:
| Round 1 was the same.
|
| Round 2 I guessed it was something to do with Arab Spring
| but without looking up the year of it happened I remember
| it was late 00s or early 10s so I put 2010.
|
| Round 3
|
| >and people were piled on top of each other in a London
| Tube station--which narrowed it down to basically a single
| year.
|
| Not sure that is a knowledge I know but I only guess it was
| WWII, again without looking it up I only remember it as the
| 40s.
|
| Round 4 I had the same thought so I guess something like
| 1960s because I thought it wasn't WWII.
|
| Round 5, not from US so I only know / heard of Prop 8 when
| Mozilla fired their CTO Brendan Eich. I thought it happened
| in early to mid 2010s.
| Lerc wrote:
| 4586 Avg. years off 5
|
| I felt like I should have been able to be closer. The images
| wouldn't zoom on my phone though. I'm impressed by three
| years off but would consider it quite possible for somone who
| knows their history.
| incanus77 wrote:
| Score 4722 Avg. Years Off 2.6 here. Spoilers: I got two
| exactly right (Arab Spring, Battle of Britain) and one off by
| a year (dancing). The two exacts were pretty obviously tied
| to specific dated events, and I both love history and have a
| pretty easy time remembering dates. I love this sort of game,
| as I do trivia, history trivia especially.
| petesergeant wrote:
| > Score: 4947; Avg. Years Off: 1.2
|
| Skill issue.
| furyofantares wrote:
| I got one off by 20 years, oops. But there's two where I
| think you can get exact or off by 1 with some knowledge of
| world events, maybe it's a 50/50 shot. And there's two where
| the half-decade is pretty clear.
| sergiotapia wrote:
| It's called "stuck culture".
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyi-KGwuR9c
| I-M-S wrote:
| I would say athleisure is a recent development. 10 years ago
| you'd see far fewer women wearing tight leggings outside the
| gym. Heck, even in gyms you'd be hard pressed to see the kind
| of tank tops and sport bras you regularly see nowadays [1]
|
| N.B. I'm just noting the phenomenon, not commenting on its
| merits
|
| [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/women-are-intimidating-
| men-w...
| Oreb wrote:
| I've never seen women wearing that kind of outfits in gyms in
| Norway or France, but I see it all the time online. Is it an
| American thing?
| I-M-S wrote:
| Can't comment on the USA, but I'm seeing a fair number of
| them in Canada and (somewhat less commonly) in Croatia.
| MzxgckZtNqX5i wrote:
| Not uncommon in Norway, at least at few gyms I've been to
| after they reopened after COVID.
| hnpolicestate wrote:
| Lindy.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Clothing variation has a lot to do with not only _fashions_ but
| _fabrics_.
|
| Considered over a longer timescale, up through the late 19th
| century, the principle options for clothing were cotton, flax,
| silk, wool, leather, grasses (in some regions), and metal, with
| very few other options.
|
| Viscose rayon was the first _synthetic_ fibre created, in 1899.
| It was followed by Nylon (1930s) which pressaged a slew of
| additional synthetics, notably polyester. Adoption was somewhat
| slowed by various factors, including WWII, but by the 1960s
| synthetic fabrics and brilliant dyes were exploding into
| popularity.
|
| Flagrant use of synthetics faded somewhat through the 1970s and
| 1980s, with fabric blends and natural fabrics becoming more
| prevalent (yes, I'm aware that the leisure suit was prominent
| in the 1970s, but it was _less_ so by the end of the decade).
|
| There've been variations in specific styles since, though most
| to my eye have been evocative of earlier 20th-century periods
| since the 1990s, rather than distinctively original. (I'm far
| from an expert in clothing fashion, take with heaping handfuls
| of salt.)
|
| Other scene-setting elements include architectural styles
| (notably houses in the West), automobiles, and since ~2000, the
| presence and style of handheld mobile devices, smartphones
| after about 2010. Camera styles would be a useful indicator for
| much of the 1900s ("Brownie" box cameras, SLRs, "Instamatics",
| and the like).
| gblargg wrote:
| I wanted to play more but couldn't find any way. Refresh page, no
| new game link, tried entering URL again. Checked but no cookies
| to delete. That's one way to ensure I never visit the site again.
| k1kingy wrote:
| To be fair it's a daily challenge. Try again tomorrow. But yes,
| I would love it if there were more game modes (similar to
| GeoGuessr)
| gblargg wrote:
| I like things I can improve my skill on. This works by
| getting a stream of feedback as I study what I did and the
| errors I made, then try again with changes. Having only 5
| rounds a day (assuming it resets each day) greatly limits
| this. This limitation seems more like an attempt to make me
| use it in a certain way (make it part of my daily routine).
| That's off-putting. I wanted to sit there grinding over
| dozens of photos and watching my skill improve in real-time.
| pngeez wrote:
| Hi, I made the game. Appreciate the feedback! Working on a mode
| that lets you play more right now.
| psittacus wrote:
| There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the
| location
|
| https://timeguessr.com/
|
| Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203511
|
| edit: found another game like OP in the linked thread
| https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html
| clippyplz wrote:
| Another for year + location https://whentaken.com/
| 8organicbits wrote:
| The whole collection is great:
|
| https://whentaken.com/teuteuf-games
| kentimental wrote:
| https://pointguessr.com is another one, it's like timeguessr
| but with real-time co-op functionality
| airstrike wrote:
| Holy, I was off by 7 years and 427km on my first guess and I
| don't want to play anymore because I've surely peaked
| kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote:
| I just got one that was off by 2 years and 24.2 _meters_ ,
| but it was kinda cheaty because it showed Barbara Bush on
| the South lawn of the White House.
| airstrike wrote:
| lol nicely done
|
| I only immigrated to the US in my adult life and I can't
| say I recognize Barbara Bush at a glance, so I was _also_
| off by a few years and a few km on that one :( but still
| a lot of fun!
| tecleandor wrote:
| Seems like they're "season photos", so a lot of Easter
| and Holy Week celebrations today.
|
| I have to say I got almost perfect a Holy Week
| celebration in Sevilla in the 1920's (I'm Spanish, so
| only some hundred meters away but kinda wild guess for
| the year and only was two years off), and pointed Mexico
| instead of Guatemala for another, but nailed the year
| (1981) for a grand total of 902 out of 1000 points.
|
| That was fun!
| rubychill wrote:
| This was fun! Sent it through to my "gamedle" group chat and it's
| probably going into my daily rotation.
|
| One thing though, the url in the share text doesn't start with
| https:// so it doesn't turn into a clickable link when posted in
| some chat clients.
| pngeez wrote:
| Ah this is really helpful, thanks!
| saaaaaam wrote:
| Also I think there's a bug when you view "All-time Stats".
| I've only played once and in my first game I scored 3971 but
| it shows lifetime points of 7942 (which exactly double 3971)
| and 2 games played.
|
| Great game though, really good idea!
| tiberius_p wrote:
| This is a great way to gather labeled training data for a neural
| network that can guess in which year a photo was taken.
| krisoft wrote:
| A photo archive with actual correct date labels is even better
| (the thing which this game is built on.)
| ChrisNorstrom wrote:
| Here's another one for guessing ethnicities https://hbd.gg/play/
| 8474_s wrote:
| This is interesting concept, if there was more variety it could
| be some like timeguessr.
| NehalNetha wrote:
| would be so fun if it has a multiplayer mode
| sudofoo wrote:
| This was fun!
| jillesvangurp wrote:
| Nice idea. I was 6 years off on average. Probably something the
| new AI models might be very good at.
| xg15 wrote:
| I guess I'm getting a bit paranoid, but whenever I see a game
| like this, my first suspicion is that it's just a trainset
| annotation UI in disguise.
| rightbyte wrote:
| Nah seems like pictures choosen for this purpose? Or do you
| mean they will sneak in a picture with an unknown date every
| now and then to good estimators?
| xg15 wrote:
| Something like this, pretty much.
| asdf12341 wrote:
| I doubt why they need to, these photos are all from
| newspaper which already have the date.
| xg15 wrote:
| Eh, we already had a discussion a few days ago about
| people using AI to effortlessly geolocate photos. That's
| the "where". I could see a model that also provides the
| "when" as useful for a lot of purposes.
| ashish1dev wrote:
| Tried this, it is very addictive game, good job team !
| ashish1dev wrote:
| tried this game, it is very addictive, good job team !
| dbcooper wrote:
| WhichYear 4/20/25 4939 pts (top 1%) 1 avg. years off
|
| 2 1 1 1 1
|
| whichyr.com
| thih9 wrote:
| Does it have only one set of photos per day?
| rimbo789 wrote:
| WhichYear 4/20/25 4215 pts (top 17%) 6 avg. years off
|
| 3 1 8
|
| whichyr.com
| eqvinox wrote:
| If you grab statistics per photo rather than the whole thing, and
| maybe do rough client geolocation, you can turn this into a
| sociological study and publish a paper about it...
| Vinonasg wrote:
| Guessing the year each photo was taken can be surprisingly
| accurate when you observe changes in technology, fashion, or even
| product developments visible in the background.
| aulisius wrote:
| 3121 pts, 14 avg. years off.
|
| Decent try considering most of the options were USA specific.
| rafram wrote:
| Definitely the most polished game of this sort that I've seen.
| Nice work!
| goldfishgold wrote:
| I created a similar game a few years ago for guessing the year of
| an object in the Met's collection. Would love any feedback if
| people want to try it.
| brador wrote:
| What is Mets collection?
| slig wrote:
| I'd guess The Met [1]
|
| [1]: https://www.metmuseum.org/
| bbarnett wrote:
| I tried playing again, but how?! I am presented with the last
| play stats, but see no way to play again.
|
| I can share, or get all time stats. That's all.
| davidfdriscoll wrote:
| I created a similar game a couple years ago for guessing the year
| of an object in the Met's collection. Would love any feedback if
| people want to try it. https://davidfdriscoll.github.io/met-
| chronoguesser/
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I love this idea so much and would make this one of my daily
| games.
|
| FWIW: The jankiness of the slider feels quite jarring, given it's
| the sole interactive element. It makes the thing difficult to
| stick with. On my iPhone 12, it lags way behind and the numbers
| update at like 10fps.
|
| I really hope this keeps getting daily images added.
| kwertyoowiyop wrote:
| Also laggy on my iPad Air.
| pyfon wrote:
| 4580. Helps if you recognise the current affairs. Gay marriage,
| Arab spring, London Blitz came up. Leaving me with a party with a
| mix of drab and 70s disco clothing so I guessed 1981 and was
| close enough!
|
| The one that got me was some people at a beach in black and
| white.
| pieterr wrote:
| When I press "All Times Stats", I see "Games Played: 2". But I
| only played today. Off-by-one error?
| jpalomaki wrote:
| The "global score distribution" (and my score) and the end was
| pretty good idea. Much more informative than just some high score
| list.
| johnsillings wrote:
| Agree - great feature & nice for sharing.
| hliyan wrote:
| One thing I realized was: the presence or absence of smartphones
| is an easy way to determine whether something happened before
| circa 2009 or after. Another: indoor smoking.
| frogarden wrote:
| 4902, 2% off. I like how you've created a guess distribution
| johnsillings wrote:
| I love this!
|
| Small bit of feedback that - after expanding an image - it'd be
| nice to more easily collapse it and return to the game screen.
| Maybe by pressing escape on the keyboard and/or clicking on the
| image.
| BMc2020 wrote:
| Score
|
| 3433
|
| Avg. Years Off
|
| 12.2
| navigate8310 wrote:
| Score
|
| 4266
|
| Avg. Years Off
|
| 5.2
| aae42 wrote:
| ripoff of https://www.chronophoto.app ?
|
| it's really fun/simple so can't feel too bad
| kelvinjps10 wrote:
| I feel dumb, I can't figure out how to play again
| js4ever wrote:
| ChatGPT 4o guessed perfectly 8 in a row!
| karaterobot wrote:
| You know, this game pretty much demonstrates how fast cell phone
| addiction happened. You can tell the year by how many people are
| staring at their phones, and how big their phones are. You don't
| see nearly as many people reading newspapers in old photos as
| there are people gormlessly staring into their phones in
| contemporary photos.
| hnpolicestate wrote:
| I love this stuff. I was always good at guessing song, movie or
| photo years.
| alanvillalobos wrote:
| Nice game! Good UI experience. When sharing you get 4 different
| scores (points, top %, avg error, total error) I think. This is a
| little confusing, better to share one score (maybe plus total
| error, maybe) so people can more easily compete. 4 scores is too
| confusing.
| xyst wrote:
| geoguessr clones/copies are so hot rn.
|
| Cool idea, m8. I ended up just looking at clothing and fashion
| choices. Although black and white photos do tend to represent
| historical era (ie, holocaust, ww2)
| almosthere wrote:
| 5.2 years average off. The first was a dance club in the 70s, I
| guessed 78, but it was 79... There was one where nudists where
| taking off their clothes, I guessed 50s but it was 1934!!!
| bijant wrote:
| o3 got a SCORE AVG.4989 YEARS OFF 0.2 TOP 0%
| juancroldan wrote:
| Neat thing! I'm gonna add it to my round of daily games.
|
| I'd suggest changing "Share results" to some variation of "Copy
| results". Share looks like it's gonna open some sharing menu and
| deter people from playing (and hence promoting your game)
|
| WhichYear 4/20/25 4142 pts (top 22%) 7 avg. years off
|
| 4 6 1 2
|
| https://whichyr.com
| icemelt8 wrote:
| Score: 4246 pts 6 avg. years off
|
| I am not american or native english speaker or never have been
| outside Asia
| pbhjpbhj wrote:
| WhichYear 4/20/25 4311 pts 5 avg. years off
|
| 6 1 5 2
|
| https://whichyr.com
|
| Wordle opens (or used to) a mock modal dialog with a copy button
| for sharing the results. I feel like opening the modal rather
| than requiring clicking the 'share' button probably leads to a
| lot more shares?
|
| I think I'd save a longer and just put "WhichYr.com" as the top
| line, bump the date and score to the next line.
| logikblok wrote:
| WhichYear 4/20/25 4361 pts (top 11%) 6 avg. years off
|
| 4 6 8 7 4
|
| https://whichyr.com
| wileydragonfly wrote:
| Styles haven't changed that much since jeans and a tshirt
| mNovak wrote:
| Fun, though I'm apparently terrible at this -- avg 14 yr off.
|
| UI note: the statistics tab shows games played: 2 when I only
| played once, and the lifetime points appears to be double my one
| game.
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