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Which Year?

three events a day

How to play

Three events from Sikh history, three years to guess. Everyone gets the same ones, and every guess scores.

  1. Read the clue. Look for words that date it: a Mughal governor, the Maharaja, British officers, a steamship.

  2. Slide to a year. The timeline names five ages. Drag the marker, or use the buttons for single years, then Lock in.

  3. Closer scores more. Within two years is the full 1,000, and a wild guess still earns points. Another clue makes it easier but caps that round at 700.

a new set every day at midnight UTC

Your numbers

Day scores

    Your timeline

    Every moment you meet in the game stays here.

    Nothing here yet. Play today's three and each event you reveal lands on the line, in its age.

    Past days

      How scoring works

      Everyone scores every round: a guess is never wrong, only nearer or further, and the lowest a round can score is 50.

      Points for a round
      Your guessPoints
      Within 2 years1,000
      10 years off875
      25 years off682
      50 years off449
      100 years off195
      Far off (200 or more)50
      With the extra clueat most 700

      When a page gives a range of years, a guess anywhere inside it counts as exact.

      The five ages

      The bands on the timeline. A clue word often tells you which one you are in.

      1. 1469
        Gurus From Guru Nanak Dev Ji to the last of the ten Gurus: the first communities, Amritsar, the Guru Granth Sahib and the Khalsa. The Guru period →
      2. 1708
        Banda Singh and the misls The first Sikh state under Banda Singh Bahadur, years of persecution, and then the misls, the bands that took the Punjab. Sovereignty and Banda Singh → · The misl period →
      3. 1799
        Sikh Empire Maharaja Ranjit Singh's kingdom, ruled from Lahore, until the British annexed it after two wars. The Sikh Empire →
      4. 1849
        British Punjab Colonial rule, the Singh Sabha movement and the fight to bring the historic gurdwaras under community care. The Singh Sabha reform →
      5. 1947
        India and the diaspora From the Partition of Punjab to Sikh communities around the world. The modern era →

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