Play Eraly, the Daily Historical Trivia Game

Can you place seven events in time?

Eraly gives you seven events and 25 seconds to place each one. Start with a date you know and work out whether the event happened before or after it. If you can narrow it down to a decade, use that to make your best guess.

Where can I play Eraly free online?

Choose Start the journey in the player above to play today’s Eraly without signing in. Use Fullscreen if you want more room to read the clues and the timeline.

What makes Eraly fun?

• Seven new events each day. Pick the free Daily time-travel mode to play the same set as your friends.
• A 25-second clock. When the timer turns red, send your best estimate before the round closes.
• A timeline from AD 1 to 2026. A set can jump from ancient battles to inventions and pop culture, so use the clue to narrow down the era first.
• Six scoring tiers. An exact guess earns 100 points. Wider misses earn 85, 60, 30 or 10 points, and a timeout earns zero.
• Infinite time-travel. Unlock the paid mode to play back-to-back sets when you feel like tackling more events.
• Archive. Included with Infinite, the Archive lets you choose a past daily to catch up or replay a favorite.
• Leaderboards. Open Leaderboards to create a free private board and invite friends or family by link. After the daily, check your results to see how your score compares with the wider player pool.
• Wardrobe. Score 500 in one daily to unlock a graduation cap or play three days in a row to earn a cowboy hat. Equip your rewards from Wardrobe.

How to play Eraly

Read the event and the clue underneath. You have 25 seconds to enter a year in AD.

1. Type your best estimate in the year field. On a phone, tap the field to open the number keypad.
2. Tap GO or press Enter to lock in your guess before time runs out.
3. Check your guess against the answer, then select Next when you’re ready for another event.

Use the clue and make your best guess

Start with an event you can date. If a clue mentions a technology, a ruler or a war, use it to decide whether your event came before or after a year you know.

Older events give you more room for error. If an ancient event feels familiar but the date is fuzzy, use the clue to pick a century and work from there.

After each answer, look at where your guess sits on the timeline. Read the real year and the short fact before pressing Next. If you guessed too late, the fact can give you a better date to work from next time.

Follow your Eraly explorer through six eras

Your explorer starts in 1 AD. Each score moves them along the route from Ancient to Medieval, Renaissance, Industrial, Modern and Digital. Look for temples and castles early on, then factories and city towers farther along. The year at the top tracks your progress through the route.

After the seventh question, choose See your journey to check your final era and score out of 700. Use Copy result to compare with friends without revealing the answers.

How Eraly compares with Daily Krillion

Both daily trivia games give you seven timed questions and a route that advances with your score. In Eraly, each event has one target year and you score by getting close. In Daily Krillion, an open-ended question can have many valid answers, and you dive farther when fewer players give yours.

• Play Daily Krillion. Try finding the rarest valid answer you can think of.

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