Hear a clip. Say when it came out.
A thirty-second clip and one question: when did this come out? No sleeve, no title, no artist. All you get is the sound. Put the handle on a year and lock it in, and everything is revealed.
Dead on is 100, and the points fall away the further out you are: steeply at first, then gently. Twenty years out is still worth something, so a rough guess always beats no guess and no round is ever a write-off.
No account needed to play in a room. This is kept on this machine.
5 letters from whoever opened the room — or paste their link straight in here.
A free music release year game, played in the browser with nothing to install. A thirty-second clip starts, and the only question is when did this come out? There is no title, no artist and no sleeve while the answer is open: all you have is the record.
That is the whole of it, and it is a different skill from naming a song. Production dates music: the drums, the reverb, how the vocal sits, how loud the master is. You can place a record you have never heard.
Dead on is 100. From there the points fall away with every year you are out: steeply at first, then gently, so a wrong decade still counts for something and no round is ever a write-off.
| years out | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| points | 100 | 92 | 78 | 66 | 43 | 19 | 4 |
Open a room and send the link. Everybody hears the same clip at the same moment, and no guess is visible until the round closes, then they all land on the timeline together and you can see who was nearest.
Nobody needs an account, and a latecomer can join a game already running. When the deck is finished you can deal another, and it will not repeat a song the room has already had.