Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically
by damiannn on 4/23/2026, 10:14:46 AM
Comments
by: defrost
Noodling kind of question, Share results / copy to Clipboard both seem to put the same string in the local clipboard:<p>Hisorty #9 1/3 <a href="https://hisorty.app" rel="nofollow">https://hisorty.app</a><p>( the six green squares don't render on HN ) ... which is still a string that can be readily edited.<p>It's more resources your end to save game results for a specific play and generate a unique checksummed hash key for a third party URL lookup, sure, so I guess the question is how important is it for players to reliably share their results in a manner that is hard than a simple edit to 'cheat' on?
4/23/2026, 1:03:47 PM
by: wwalker2112
Very fun. Would you consider putting years on the timeline to match the events up to? I think from an education perspective it would be a great feature! Nice Work!
4/23/2026, 12:48:28 PM
by: delichon
A fun variation would be to create the cards from social media posts or articles, stripped of dates. It's astonishing how little context the geoguessers need, I expect the same for chronoguessers.
4/23/2026, 1:29:13 PM
by: matt_daemon
NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashback.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...</a>
4/23/2026, 12:53:20 PM
by: SkepticalWhale
Very cool! Consider adding a wikipedia link to each card after the game is over.
4/23/2026, 2:09:56 PM
by: coder97
Nice game. I can see myself playing this daily.<p>How do you plan to feed the questions? Is it with AI or manual work?
4/23/2026, 1:56:37 PM
by: steinvakt2
This, as well as the NYT game, is heavily inspired by <a href="https://www.timdle.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.timdle.com</a> ?
4/23/2026, 1:01:00 PM
by: J0rdanius
Neat! I think with more events (~9) and obscure ones it would be more fun. I also think it would be fun to make it possible to play previous days. Bookmarked.
4/23/2026, 12:52:19 PM
by: jordanscales
Nice work! I'd consider ditching the AI art though, it was distracting.
4/23/2026, 12:12:33 PM
by: snarf21
Maybe I missed it but if I don't solve in time, it didn't show me the correct answers.
4/23/2026, 1:08:54 PM
by: FailMore
Nice, I enjoyed it. Fyi I think you should edit the title to be "Show HN: <title>". This will mean it will be on the /show (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/show">https://news.ycombinator.com/show</a>) page.
4/23/2026, 10:52:25 AM
by: emberfiend
cool game, maybe consider removing the eternally looping animation in the header, it's pretty visually distracting
4/23/2026, 1:59:06 PM
by: pixel_popping
Excellent name!
4/23/2026, 1:16:09 PM
by: tdb7893
How accurate are these pictures? I feel like I see ideas like this on HN pretty often and the art always gets things wrong. Like all the same clean armor during the first crusade seems doubtful and two swords on horseback just seems wacky. Two swords like that is dumb normally but also how do you control the horse lmao
4/23/2026, 12:32:33 PM
by: everyone
awesome! but the one per day thing kills it for me.. I want to play like 10 in a row and then forget about it for a few months.
4/23/2026, 2:03:21 PM
by: AndrewKemendo
I like it! A quality old school learning game, like we had in the 90s<p>I’m also a huge history guy so anything that helps people understand history better is great<p>Was the goal just to make this for yourself and see how it goes?
4/23/2026, 12:29:36 PM
by: Error403agent
Fun
4/23/2026, 1:41:55 PM
by: scorpion888
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4/23/2026, 2:33:08 PM
by: 0x1da49
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4/23/2026, 1:51:29 PM
by: damiannn
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4/23/2026, 10:14:46 AM
by: techsystems
Cool, I would play this<p>Hopefully EMEA isn't all of history /s
4/23/2026, 2:14:13 PM