[HN Gopher] Timdle - Place historical events in chronological order
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Timdle - Place historical events in chronological order
Author : maskinberg
Score : 144 points
Date : 2025-06-23 06:39 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.timdle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.timdle.com)
| maskinberg wrote:
| TIMDLE Jun 23 34/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 0p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 7p 4: 4p 8:
| 8p Play at https://timdle.com
| gus_massa wrote:
| 32/36: Are you the author? People is friendlier when the author
| is around answering questions. How are the events selected?
| Some are well known and some are very local.
|
| The point system is easier to explain if each unselected spot
| transform into a star that flies to the point counter.
| maskinberg wrote:
| Yes, I'm the author and this is a hobby project of mine. The
| events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day. I
| have tried to come up with a large variety of categories,
| aiming to make it both interesting, challenging and fun for
| people from all over the world. But the span of categories
| could definitely be improved. I had a couple of iterations on
| both the points system and the layout a few months ago, and
| felt satisfied with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will
| definitely take it into consideration for further work on the
| site.
|
| I saw that it also made its way onto Metafilter - did you by
| any chance have anything to do with that?
| gus_massa wrote:
| > _The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI
| every day._
|
| Interesting. Can you share more technical details? Do you
| have for example a filter to avoid event of the same year?
|
| > _Metafilter_
|
| No, it was not me.
| maskinberg wrote:
| Correct, avoiding same year events. Also, excluding
| events that has been used in the past. Anything specific
| details you are wondering about?
| bbor wrote:
| Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen
| since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the
| premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I
| prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at
| once, go-until-mistake, etc.).
|
| I have some experience crawling+processing Wikipedia dumps
| in python, if you ever find the need for a new sourcing
| system :) Email in bio!
| MarkusQ wrote:
| 32/36 too.
|
| Having very local/niche events (especially near the end, when
| there are lots of places to go wrong) makes it feel
| unballanced. If you wanted to make the game more strategic
| and less "gotcha," you might want to have all the events
| available at the same time, or have a "come back to this
| item" option that would allow the user more control.
|
| On a related note, there are only about 40320 possible choice
| paths (8!), making it about as rich as tic-tac-toe (though
| the context certainly makes the player think more), far lower
| than something like Wordel's (265)5. Adding more decisions
| might make people take more ownership of their wins.
| qwertox wrote:
| TIMDLE Jun 24 35/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 6p 4: 4p
| 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
|
| Nice game, thanks!
| xnx wrote:
| Cool. I like the left to right timeline better than the bottom to
| top one of the New York Times Flashback:
| https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/flashback
| bhickey wrote:
| Fun. Scored 35/36.
|
| Have you considered an endless mode where you keep playing until
| you make a mistake?
| pmontra wrote:
| 36/36 with some luck.
|
| The domain has been created on November 2024. Is this game
| inspired by the Trekking Through History boardgame [1] from 2022?
|
| [1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353288/trekking-
| through-...
| timpark wrote:
| I was thinking of the board game "Timeline". This one is from
| 2012, but if you search BGG for Timeline, you'll find lots of
| different versions for different countries and specializations.
|
| https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128664/timeline
| pmontra wrote:
| I remember that game. Yes, it's a much better fit.
| wavemode wrote:
| 36/36 though two of the eight were lucky wild guesses.
|
| I would be interested in a game like this where you order all 8
| events and then get scored (similar to wordle). And then try
| again to put them in the right order, fewest attempts scores
| better.
| zdc1 wrote:
| UI issue: my window was resized to be quite short so I was
| clicking the dots completely unaware that the event I was placing
| was hidden in the y-overflow at the bottom of the page. Sometimes
| visible scroll bars are useful...
| charlieyu1 wrote:
| 35/36. I don't know if it is too easy
| mrgoldenbrown wrote:
| This looks like an electronic version of the card game
| Chronology. Which is a great party game because it's easy to
| explain and you can play cooperatively if that fits your groups
| vibe better.
|
| https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/834/chronology
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on
| from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)
|
| Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland
| winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened
| multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest
| time it happened was later than the next latest event but in
| another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and
| possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to
| have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?
| shermantanktop wrote:
| The -le genre is more specific - they are fixed-round guessing
| games, with cumulative clues accruing. It's a great genre
| (which of course already existed) but if adding -le helps make
| more of them, that's cool with me.
|
| I play Heardle (guess the song from the first seconds) and
| Chordle (guess the chord spelling). Don't play Wordle anymore,
| I got tired of it.
| avoutos wrote:
| The last event states Ireland "returns to rugby glory"
| suggesting it had won the grand slam before, but also there was
| a decent amount of time since the last win (return suggests a
| hiatus). This would exclude the original 1948 win.
| mike-the-mikado wrote:
| In 1948 it was the 5 Nations, not the 6 Nations (I assume
| that the question hasn't been rewritten since you saw it)
| avoutos wrote:
| Ah you're right, my bad. That could be lead to confusion
| then.
| Aspos wrote:
| "Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure,
| hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I
| guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
| pasc1878 wrote:
| First great to have non US questions. This is how we see many
| quizzes as too local. Would you have objected to an American
| Football question?
|
| But Ireland have won the Grand SLam 4 times so could appear
| in several postions
|
| So not a good question.
| rkuykendall-com wrote:
| > Would you have objected to an American Football question?
|
| As an American not into sports, the only Football question
| I think would be of such historical significance to match
| the rest on this list would be "US Holds First Superbowl"
| or something.
| leoc wrote:
| Rugby's not _that_ obscure or local. The Six Nations
| mentioned include England, France and Italy.
| prerok wrote:
| Neither is skiing or ski jumping, but it is limited in the
| sense of exposure. I bet most people would not be able to
| name the best ski jumper in 1995, but a lot of people in my
| country would.
| nesk_ wrote:
| I suppose you are American, this isn't obscur for Europeans
| at all.
| eej71 wrote:
| I hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time
| the Chicago Cubs won the world series.
| prerok wrote:
| Griping a bit, I know, but we, Europeans, always see
| these questions in various trivia games.
| dylan604 wrote:
| It's not our fault that you don't pay attention to
| something called the World Series. It's also not our
| fault you don't have teams good enough to qualify. It's
| not the called the American Series where you'd be
| expected to ignore it. /s
|
| I've always laughed at these types of names. The Miss
| Universe pageant has always made wonder what Miss
| Andromeda would be like, and if her answers would also
| talk about whirled peas too.
| olddustytrail wrote:
| Is it not? Does the average German or Portuguese or Finnish
| person know about the 6 nations?
|
| I genuinely don't know. It's obviously a thing in Scotland
| (where I'm from) but is it a thing in other European
| countries?
| input_sh wrote:
| Absolutely not. It's a good rule of thumb to guess
| "rugby" whenever I completely don't understand a sports
| reference, but I had absolutely no idea such a tournament
| existed between European nations, let alone when Ireland
| won it.
|
| That said, I also had no idea who Annie Hall was, but
| that was way easier to guess correctly than a random
| rugby tournament.
| carabiner wrote:
| What, you don't know the classic game of Timd?
| jlv2 wrote:
| That was fun.
| ravdar wrote:
| endless mode would be nice - you play until you make a mistake.
| How many historical events are available?
| ethan_smith wrote:
| An endless mode could be implemented with a difficulty curve
| that increases gradually by introducing more obscure events or
| events with closer dates as the player progresses.
| Artoooooor wrote:
| "Something went wrong. Please try again later." These two already
| seem to be in chronological order :D
| nonethewiser wrote:
| There is a very simple game called "Timeline" that is basically
| this: https://www.zygomatic-games.com/en/game/timeline-classic/
|
| Extremely simple. No barrier to entry.
| darkvertex wrote:
| Yeah! They sell many packs by genre (inventions, music, movies,
| science, etc) but what's neat is you can mix the cards of
| multiple genres and the game still works all the same. Very
| elegant concept.
| tiagod wrote:
| There's also https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
| CrazyStat wrote:
| NYTimes also has a very similar game called "Flashback".
| fouronnes3 wrote:
| Very cool! I wonder if a logarithmic version would be fun [0][1]
|
| [0] https://victorpoughon.github.io/detailed-logarithmic-
| timelin...
|
| [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
| OptimusCrimee wrote:
| Very fun game. Going to play again tomorrow.
| kaharvi wrote:
| Agreed! What was your score?
|
| TIMDLE Jun 24 31/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 3p 4: 3p
| 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
| neuronflux wrote:
| I enjoyed it.
|
| My girlfriend's first reaction after getting 30/36 and seeing the
| neutral smiley face emoji was, "Wordle doesn't judge me."
| stuartjohnson12 wrote:
| Initial prompt confused me. Weimar hyperinflation happened before
| the cultural revolution in China. Clicked the blob that was
| labeled before. Wrong answer!
|
| Left page.
|
| Probably a skill issue but that was my experience.
| alkh wrote:
| TIMDLE Jun 24 30/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 4p 3: 2p 7: 7p 4: 3p 8:
| 6p Play at https://timdle.com
| etewiah wrote:
| If a game like this gets super popular can it be monetised?
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