Guides
Getting good at guessing the past
Where to play history guessing games, which daily puzzles are worth your morning, and how to read a scene for its year and place.
Roundups
Daily Geography Games: 13 to Play Every Day
Thirteen free daily geography puzzles sorted by the clue they give you: a distance, a shape, a flag, a photo, or a place with a year attached.
October 25, 2026 · 9 min read
How-to
Game Night Ideas: Host a History Guessing Tournament
How to run a round-robin or knockout guessing tournament for four to eight friends, in one room or over FaceTime, plus party games that suit adults.
October 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Roundups
iPhone Games to Play With Friends, Together or Apart
Two-player and group iPhone games sorted by how you actually play: over text, in your own time, in the same room, or live on a call.
October 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Roundups
Games to Play With Long-Distance Friends and Partners
Games that work across time zones and busy schedules, sorted by whether you play in your own time, live on a call, or on the same daily puzzle.
October 1, 2026 · 7 min read
Explainers
AI History Games: How the Scenes Are Made, and What to Trust
AI-generated history games are everywhere in 2026. How the scenes are actually built, the five ways they go wrong, and what a responsible one does.
September 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Tips
History Games for Students: What Teaches and What Just Tests
History games that build reasoning instead of recall — five classroom activities that work with any of them, the tools worth using, and the AI caveat.
September 20, 2026 · 8 min read
Roundups
GeoGuessr Alternatives: What to Play Instead
Twelve GeoGuessr alternatives sorted by why you're leaving — the subscription, the repetition, or wanting history instead of Street View.
September 19, 2026 · 7 min read
Roundups
Wordle Alternatives That Aren't Word Games
Daily puzzles that use maps, photographs, films and history instead of letters. All free, all one round a day, all finished in under five minutes.
September 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Explainers
What Is MapTap? The Daily Globe Game, Explained
MapTap gives you five on-this-day places to find on a 3D globe. What it does well, what MapTap+ costs, and what to play when you want the year too.
September 17, 2026 · 7 min read
Roundups
History Games to Play With Friends
Games that pit you against a friend on the same historical rounds, split by whether you play at the same time or whenever each of you gets to it.
September 16, 2026 · 6 min read