henke on 27/1/2022 at 11:57
This is a really fun in-browser trivia game where you try to place historical events in the right order. These events include everything from the fall of ancient civilizations and Biblical dates to the inventions of things like USB and the series finale of Mad Men.
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https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/) https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
I'm no history buff by any means, but having a somewhat rough understanding of when certain things happened helps a lot. It also seems to skew towards American history a bit, so simply knowing the years of their independence and civil wars often helps.
Just set my own personal highscore of 18! Before that I managed to get 11 a few times, but a lot of it is just down to the luck of the draw.
demagogue on 28/1/2022 at 00:55
I got 12 so far. Should have been 13+ since I got a year right in my mind but still misplaced the card. Kind of interesting game for what it is.
Somehow reminds me a little of my favorite "real world" game, which is a game on Google maps where it just drops you somewhere in the world in first-person mode, without the ability to see the top-down map, and you have to pin where you are on a world map just by looking around you. Then you get scored based on the distance from your pin to where you were. That's another kind of game where you need to know really obscure facts about different parts of the world, their history & culture, even down to things like the architecture style, the kinds of clothes people are wearing, the types of cars, the way the electric towers look, etc., to do it well.
henke on 28/1/2022 at 06:28
GeoGuessr? Yeah that's a good one. :)
btw for some reason the background in WikiTrivia is white now. It was dark earlier, which was much more pleasant. :|
faetal on 28/1/2022 at 09:36
I haven't made it past 8 yet.
It's pretty good fun though.
EDIT: Literally played an 11 immediately after posting that.
Nameless Voice on 28/1/2022 at 12:50
I got a card that had someone's name and then "human" under it. I guess it's an accurate description, but not exactly a precise one!
reizak on 2/2/2022 at 09:14
13 on my first try! Pretty chuffed. I'd like to say those were educated guesses, but it's not like I have the slightest idea that HMS Bounty was built five years prior to the founding of the Jacobin Club, so in addition to the luck factor of what cards you happen to get, there's quite a bit of random chance involved in where you (or I anyway) end up plonking the cards.
I was a straight 10 and occasional 10+ history student in high school, though, because I had a huge crush on my history teacher :erg:
Edit: okay my glorious opening was a total outlier
