When & Where guide

Work out when and where a historical photo was taken. Pin the year and the place on the map over five rounds and score up to 50,000. New set daily.

How to play When & Where

5 photos
Place and year scored
New puzzle daily

Goal

For each historical photograph, guess both where in the world it was taken and what year it was taken.

Each round

Study the photograph, then drop a pin on the map for the location and set the year on the slider.
Both halves are scored: one for how close your pin is, one for how close your year is.
A short hint accompanies each photo. It narrows the era or the setting without naming the year outright.
Submit to see the true location and year, and the distance you were out by.

Reading a photograph

Clothing, vehicles, signage and the photograph itself all date a scene. Film stock, colour and grain narrow the decade before you have read a single sign, and architecture, road markings and which side of the road traffic drives on narrow the place.

Scoring

Points come from both accuracy halves across every round, so a perfect year with a wild pin still scores.
Your total across the round set is the score submitted to the leaderboard.
The same photo set runs for every player each day, resetting at midnight Melbourne time.