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Time Pin

a Geo Guessr style game but history themed

Details

External ID
47913044
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Time Pin
Website domain
crazygames.com
Launched
April 26, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.4813624678663239
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Hi! Any history nerds here? I made Time Pin, a little game inspired by Geo Guessr but history-themed. You can play it here(it works on both desktop and mobile). Any feedback is appreciated: https://www.crazygames.com/game/time-pinNow some details: The goal is to guess the time and place that a character is from. You base your guess on some environmental photos, and on questions that you can ask the character(you have 12 questions but can only ask 5 so you have to choose carefully).The closer you are the more points you get. At the end, a portrait picture of the character is revealed, as well as educational resources to learn more about their culture and era(articles, videos, podcasts etc).The game only has 5 levels currently, but I hope to have over 100 someday. It’s tough to create levels because it requires some research, plus generating photos with AI(AI is necessary otherwise we’d only have photos starting from the 19th century when the camera was invented).My goal for the game was to create a challenge, and also maybe spark some curiosity for history.

Enrichment

Theme
interactive quiz and trivia games
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
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Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
history-themed geography guessing game
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes A web-based GeoGuessr clone using curated historical images, maps (e.g., Leaflet), and time sliders is standard front-end logic and game state management that a solo builder can easily vibe-code.

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Launched 179 days after the earliest competitor.

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