Lookback

How to play

• 5 photographs a day, the same for everyone, from the 1860s to our own time and from all over the world.
• For each one you guess when it was taken, with the slider, and where, by tapping the map. You can zoom and move the map, and tap again to move the pin.
• The year gives up to 50 points: the exact year gives all of them, ten years off gives about half.
• The place gives up to 50 points: within 25 km gives all of them, 1,000 km away gives about 30.
• One go per day. No second attempts.

Privacy

No ads, no trackers, no cookies, nothing loaded from other sites. Your browser keeps a random number so the game remembers today's round; the server only ever sees a scrambled version of it, together with your answers and any feedback you choose to send. No names, e-mail or IP addresses are stored.

About the content

The photographs come from Wikimedia Commons. They are in the public domain or under a Creative Commons licence, and the photographer and licence are shown with each one once you have answered. Some are cropped. The map is drawn from Natural Earth, which is free to use. Tell us if a year, a place or a credit is wrong.

The daily top list shows made-up nicknames such as “Quick Fox 42”. They are generated from the scrambled number, so the list says nothing about who you are.

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Feedback

A year, a place or a credit that is wrong? Something broken, or a photograph you would like to see? Tell us.