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Historicle is a daily history guessing game. Each day there's one mystery event, from ancient battles to modern crises. Guess any event and the game shows how close you are on five clues, until you work out the answer.
How to play
- Each guess is scored on Year, Duration, Death toll, Countries and Kind of event.
- Green is an exact match. Yellow is close or a partial overlap, such as one shared country or a year within range. Gray is no match.
- For Kind of event, yellow means a different kind in the same family, such as a battle when the answer is a war. The tile names the family: Military, Politics & law, Disasters & atrocities, Economy, Science & technology or Culture & society.
- Arrows point toward the answer: ↑ means later or higher, ↓ means earlier or lower.
- Color-blind colors: tap the switch under the board to use orange and blue instead of green and yellow. Tiles also show ✓ for a match and ~ for close.
- The timeline puts every guess on a line through history and highlights the stretch where the answer can still be.
- Guesses are unlimited. Stuck? The century unlocks after 5 guesses, the first letter after 8, a key person after 10 and a short description after 12.
- All Time covers events from ancient history to today. Past 250 Years covers 1776 onward. Each mode has its own Daily puzzle and its own streak.
- Want more? Practice gives you extra rounds that don't affect your streak, using the best-known events. Historicle+ adds Hard mode, where the answer can be anything on the list.
Where the facts come from
The event list started from Wikidata and Wikipedia. Events were chosen by how widely they're covered across Wikipedia's many languages, cleaned up by hand, and expanded with inventions, discoveries, culture and law so it isn't all battles.
- Countries use today's names. For example, the Ottoman Empire counts as Turkey and the Soviet Union as Russia.
- Death toll counts deaths, not casualties (casualty figures include the wounded), using the most commonly cited figure. Many events, especially ancient ones, only have rough estimates, so each level spans a factor of ten.
- Duration runs from one day to decades.
Spotted a mistake? Corrections are always welcome: historiclegamedaily@gmail.com
Pictures and maps
Pictures come from Wikimedia Commons, and only free-licensed images are used. Each picture shows its author and license next to it, with a link to the original file.
Maps use public-domain Natural Earth data and show today's borders.
Historicle+ (coming soon)
The Daily puzzle will always be free. Historicle+ is an optional membership for people who want more: theme packs such as Wars & Battles, Hard mode for Practice, every past Daily puzzle in the archive, and your streak on all your devices. Want to hear when it launches? Sign up in the Historicle+ panel in the game, or email historiclegamedaily@gmail.com.
Contact
Questions, ideas or corrections: historiclegamedaily@gmail.com