What Year Was It?
Three things debuted the same year. Name it. One puzzle a day.
A film, a hit song and a thing that happened, all from the same year. Drag the slider from 1960 to 2024 and lock in your answer. Sixty-five puzzles, one per day, the same puzzle for everyone, counted from a fixed epoch so nobody gets a different board. Blazing Saddles, Waterloo and the invention of the Rubik's Cube is 1974, and if you were off by eighteen years the result screen tells you so without softening it. Streaks survive a reload and break on a missed day, and a share grid goes out the way Wordle's does.
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Sixty-five puzzles, each a film, a song and an event from one year, plus the daily plumbing that makes everyone see the same board. The interesting entries are not the puzzles: they are the one that stopped an rAF loop from gating game state, which used to deadlock the reveal if you switched tabs mid-count, and the one that locks a guess per day so a reload shows your result instead of a fresh slider.
- Font Guesser: 54 self-hosted typefaces, distractors by classification
- Cloudflare Web Analytics on both live games
- What Year Was It?: a real daily game
- StatClash: self-hosted fonts, build-time thumbnails, deck pruned to 44
- StatClash: production build-out
- StatClash is YouTube only; fix a background-tab deadlock
- Rework web prototypes into one repo with a shared engine
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