Category · 34 games
History Games Like Wordle: Years, Events and Timelines
History games like Wordle turn dates and events into clues. Elementle asks for an exact date, Yeardle connects several events to one year, Chrono Trivia orders events and TimeGuessr combines the year and location of a photograph
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Elementle
Guess the exact date of a historical event in five tries, with feedback on every number
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Anthropeum
Guess where and when ten museum artifacts were made, with points for geographic and historical accuracy
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Chrono Trivia
Arrange historical events from earliest to latest in daily category puzzles, with an Expert option that also asks for the years
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Daily Time Travel
Choose the more recent historical event to advance along a timeline and reach the destination in as few steps as possible
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Daily Timeline
Choose events that bring you closer in time to a destination, aiming for five correct steps
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Decade
Estimate the year shown in each of five historical photos in a free daily browser puzzle
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dobdodle
Use mapped birth and death locations with dates to identify famous people in daily, unlimited or timed rounds
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Earlier
Choose which of two events happened first in a three-question daily history quiz, with past puzzles in an archive
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Electle
Identify a country and election year from the arrangement of seats in its lower house
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Elimina8
Eliminate seven of eight world events while keeping the earliest one on the board
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EraPin
Use archival photos and written clues to guess both a location and a year over five daily rounds, with an archive for past games
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Extraplot
A chart stops partway through its timeline, and you sketch the rest before seeing the actual values
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Geosportle
Pin famous sports events on a globe and estimate their years, with daily rounds, practice and an archive
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Headlines
Read five accounts of real events and estimate their years, losing points for every year your answer misses by
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HistoriaQuest
A daily history challenge that includes arranging inventions from the earliest to the most recent
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Historic Firsts
Arrange six historic firsts on a timeline, with three wrong submissions allowed and a fresh set of events each day
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HistoryGuesso
Fill missing letters to identify a historical event, using optional clues at a cost to your score
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Jaardle
Use several events from the same year to narrow down a date, with color feedback and optional hints that cost points
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Marginle
Identify the years of three US elections from county maps, with five guesses and additional clues after each miss
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Paintiquity
Study paintings made in the same year and estimate that year across five rounds
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PatentGuessr
Name a historical invention in six guesses as clues from its original patent are gradually revealed
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PricedIn
Pick a baseline year, learn the item's price there and estimate its prices in the other five decades within a 10% margin
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Propagandle
Work through five daily rounds about conspiracies and propaganda, classifying claims and distinguishing real material from fabrication
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Saloondle
Play five multiple-choice history clues, staking chips before seeing each question
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Shellennium
Identify a historical event in six guesses, with easier clues after misses and a crab showing whether to look earlier or later
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TimeGuessr
Examine a photograph, mark where it was taken and estimate its year, with daily, random and community-created games
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WasThatBefore
Put five historical events in chronological order, with three attempts and a fresh daily puzzle
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Whenere
Mark a historical event on a 3D globe and a timeline in a daily challenge of three rounds
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Whodle
Name a historical or contemporary figure in six tries using occupation, country, birth year and other comparisons
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Yearbook
Guess a year from events in science, entertainment, technology and other topics, revealing another clue after each miss
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Yeardle
Connect three historical events to their shared year, with progressive hints and a new puzzle each day
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Yesternerd
Identify historical figures and artifacts, recognize a life from two dates and group related terms
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Your Call
Read a historical situation, choose one of three responses and learn what the leader actually did
Compare at a glance
A quick comparison of 20 games from this list: what changes, daily puzzles, unlimited play and multiplayer
| Game | What is different | Daily | Unlimited | Multiplayer | Price |
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| Elementle | Guess the date of a historical event | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free with ads |
| Anthropeum | Place museum objects in time and space | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Chrono Trivia | Put events in order, then try naming their years | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Daily Time Travel | Move through history toward a target year | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Daily Timeline | Move through history toward a target event | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Decade | Date five historical photographs | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| dobdodle | Name a person from the places and dates of their life | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Free |
| Earlier | Three pairs of events, one earlier choice each | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Electle | Read a parliament from its seating diagram | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Free |
| Elimina8 | Leave only the earliest historical event | Not listed | Yes | Not listed | Free |
| EraPin | Place historical photographs in time and on a map | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Extraplot | Draw the missing years of a real chart | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Free to try |
| Geosportle | Place and date five sporting moments | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Free |
| Headlines | Put a year to five historical headlines | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| HistoriaQuest | Put history in the right order | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
| Historic Firsts | Put six inventions and milestones in historical order | Yes | Not listed | Yes | Free, paid extras |
| HistoryGuesso | Uncover the name of a historical event | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Free |
| Jaardle | Date a historical event in six guesses | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Free |
| Marginle | Date an election from its county results | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Free to try |
| Paintiquity | Date a gallery of paintings | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Free |
A closer look
Some puzzles test a broad sense of chronology. Daily Time Travel asks which event is more recent, and Daily Timeline uses events as steps toward a destination in time
Others give a narrower kind of evidence. Marginle shows US election maps, Paintiquity uses paintings from one year and Yearbook brings together clues from science, entertainment and technology
Questions people ask
What is the history version of Wordle?
Yeardle gives historical events and asks for their shared year. Elementle goes further and asks for an exact date with feedback on its digits
Which history games use photographs?
TimeGuessr asks where and when a photograph was taken. EraPin also combines archival images and written clues with a location and year
Are there games about putting events in order?
Chrono Trivia asks you to arrange events from earliest to latest. Daily Timeline and Daily Time Travel use comparisons between events to move through history
Top Picks
Four games to try if you want Wordle with a twist
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Worduel Top Pick
A Wordle duel: you and a rival take turns on one shared board, 45 seconds a move, in ranked games or a friend room
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WorDungeon Top Pick
Wordle as a solo dungeon crawl: every floor is a boss with a hidden English word and its own twist, 200 bosses deep
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Transwordle Top Pick
Wordle where the word runs away: after every miss the hidden word is swapped for a new one and your earlier rows are recolored
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Wordle Blast Top Pick
Wordle in a Tetris-style stack: clue blocks open from the bottom up, and the sooner you guess, the more blocks blow up into points