Six things. Which came first?
Every day, six things from one corner of history land on your screen out of order. Drag them so the earliest is on top. Lock it in. Green is the right spot, yellow is off by one, black is further than that. You get three tries, and the cards you leave alone keep their color.
The twist
Every puzzle hides one pair that most people get backwards. The fax machine was patented before the telephone. Television was demonstrated before bread was sold sliced. Nintendo is older than Ford. The last woolly mammoths were alive after the Great Pyramid was built. You will not be warned which pair it is. When the answer comes up, each item gets one line on why the date is what it is, so you leave with something to repeat at dinner.
Thirty seconds
Six cards, one drag each, one button. It is built for the first minute of the morning or the last minute before the kettle boils.
Three tries
The first attempt tells you where you stand. The colors stay on anything you do not move, so the second and third tries are a puzzle, not a guess.
Eight themes
Inventions, brands, songs, movies and TV, food and drink, science and space, ancient history, sports. The theme rotates daily, and a pair takes about two months to come around again.
Made for the group text
One tap sends the grid to Messages. Nobody sees the answers, everybody sees how many tries it took you.
What you send
Chicken or Egg #12 · Food & drink · 2/3
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chickenoregg.clawdioslave.comThe grid tells the story without spoiling the puzzle. A 1/3 is a brag. A 3/3 is a story. An X is a reason to argue about whether Dr Pepper really is older than Coca-Cola. It is.
Where the dates come from
Every item carries one date and one defensible sentence about it, and every date is checked against its Wikipedia article, or read by hand where the article is vague, before it can appear. Companies use the year they were founded, songs and films the year they came out, inventions the first working version or the patent, and the reveal says which. Anything with a genuinely contested date stays out of the bank. If you think a date is wrong, say so, and it gets fixed or pulled.
No account, no app to install, nothing tracked beyond a daily count of how many people played. Your streak lives in your own browser.