★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★An octopus has nine brains.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Rats laugh when tickled.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The moon has moonquakes.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.

★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A group of frogs is called an army.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★An octopus has nine brains.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Rats laugh when tickled.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★The moon has moonquakes.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.

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How to play Guess the year

Each day you get five short clues about a well known invention, gadget, film, game or world moment. For every clue you pick the year it happened from four options. Lock in your answer and the game shows you whether you were right. Score out of five, keep your daily streak alive and share a spoiler free grid when you finish. Everyone gets the same five clues each day.

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Anchor yourself with a year you do know, then count up or down
Tech moves fast, gadgets are often more recent than they feel
If two options are close, trust your first instinct
Come back daily, the streak is the real prize

About Guess the year

Guess the year is a nostalgia trip and a memory test rolled into one. The clues span decades of culture and technology, so a few will be easy and a few will catch you out. It is the kind of daily round that sparks an argument about exactly when that thing came out.

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