About
Headlines is a daily history game. Every day you get five headlines about real events with their dates stripped out, and your job is to guess the year each one happened. That's the whole game: no multiple choice, no trivia questions. Just the headline, and your sense of when the world sounded like that.
The events are all real, but the headlines are written for the game in the style of the papers of the day, not copied from an archive. The paper named under each one is the kind of paper that would have covered the story.
It's the Wordle format applied to history: one puzzle a day, the same five headlines for everybody who plays, about two minutes. Each headline is worth up to 100 points and you lose two points for every year you're off, so a perfect day is 500. When you're done you can share your score as a spoiler-free grid.
If you're stuck, you can reveal a clue: another headline from within a year or two of the answer. It costs you half the points on that headline, so it's a trade rather than a freebie.
A new edition is published every midnight. It's free, there's nothing to install, and you don't need an account to play, though you can make one if you want your streak saved.
There are also themed rounds built from past editions — football, music, the Cold War and each decade from the 1960s to the 1990s. They are free, need no account, and you can play them any time: see all the history quizzes.