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What is Yearly Daily?
Yearly Daily is a free web-based history guessing game built around the calendar. Each day it presents a lineup of real historical events that all occurred on the same calendar date — today's date — and your job is to name the exact year each one happened. The twist is in the scoring: rather than a simple right-or-wrong verdict, you start the day with 100 lives and lose 1 life for every year your guess is off. A near miss barely dents your total, while a wildly wrong century can be expensive. You work through the day's events one by one, and you win if you finish the whole lineup with at least 1 life still standing. Because every event shares the same date, the game has a distinctive rhythm: the month and day stay fixed, and only your sense of the years shifts. An archive of past puzzles is included, so there is more to explore than just today's set.
How Yearly Daily works
- Goal
Pin down the exact year of each real historical event in the day's lineup, all of which happened on the same calendar date.
- Your moves
- Enter a guessed year for the event shown
- Move on to the next event in the daily lineup
- Reading the feedback
- Lives lost
- You lose 1 life per year your guess is off, so the size of the loss shows how far away you were.
- When a round ends
A day is won by completing every event in the lineup with at least 1 life remaining; running out of lives first ends it as a loss. A new lineup arrives each day.
Your first round
- Open the day's lineup of historical events, all of which happened on today's calendar date.
- Read the first event and enter the year you believe it took place.
- Check your lives: the cost is 1 life per year your guess was off.
- Continue through the remaining events, keeping an eye on your remaining lives.
- Finish the full lineup with at least 1 life left to win the day.
Easy to miss
- Guesses are penalized by distance, not correctness alone — being a few years off is cheap, being decades off is costly.
- You only need 1 life left at the end to win, so a big early loss doesn't automatically end your day.
- All events in a lineup share the same calendar date; only the year varies.
Is Yearly Daily for you?
- You enjoy history and like testing your sense of when things happened.
- You prefer forgiving scoring that rewards close estimates over all-or-nothing guessing.
- You want a quick daily puzzle with an archive to fall back on.
- You dislike games where being roughly right still costs you something.
Yearly Daily compared with similar games
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| Detail | Yearly Daily | MusicVidle | Centumth | Zonday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You find | the year of a historical event | a song title | entries on a hidden Top 100 list | an Amazon product's price |
| You work from | real events from one calendar date | still frames from the music video | the daily topic and one free hint | hot/cold feedback and product details |
| Attempts | 100 lives, 1 lost per year off | Up to 6 images revealed | 5 scoring guesses | 6 guesses |
| New puzzles | New puzzle daily | Daily format | New puzzle daily | New puzzle daily |
| Access | Free | Free | Free | Free |
Yearly Daily FAQ
Is Yearly Daily free to play?
Yes, it is free and plays in a web browser.
How many guesses or lives do I get each day?
You start each day with 100 lives. Every guess costs 1 life for each year it is off from the correct year.
What am I guessing in Yearly Daily?
You guess the exact year that real historical events happened, and every event in a day's lineup occurred on the same calendar date.
When does a new puzzle appear?
A new lineup of events is presented each day, tied to that calendar date in history.
Can I play puzzles from previous days?
Yes, the game includes an archive of past puzzles you can revisit.
Source checked 10 Oct 2026. This guide is based on the game's published rules. How we check guides · Official game
