Ancient
1 – 499 AD
Empires, monuments and the first cities.
A daily expedition through history
Eraly: the daily time-travel through history
Seven moments from history. One year to guess each. The closer you get, the further your airship travels — from ancient empires to the world we know.
- 7 moments a day
- 25 seconds each
- 700 points max
Season I · Day 1
Free · no sign-up · a new puzzle at local midnight
Two minutes, once a day
How to play Eraly
Think of it as a daily ritual for the historically curious: a tiny time machine you open with your morning coffee.
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Read the moment
A battle, an invention, a first crossing, a famous life. Each of the seven prompts is a real moment from history, stripped of its year.
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Name the year
Type the year you think it happened and press GO. You have 25 seconds and one guess. The clock warns you before the last five seconds run out.
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Travel the eras
The closer your guess, the further your airship flies: through Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern skies. Then see the real year, a verified fact and its source.
Closer is further
How scoring works
Seven questions, 100 points each, 700 for a perfect day. The rules are simple; the history is not — so older moments give you more room to be off by a few years.
| Your guess | Points | Tier |
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| The exact year | 100 | Timekeeper |
| Very close | 85 | Chronicler |
| Near | 60 | Historian |
| Rough | 35 | Explorer |
| Far | 15 | Wanderer |
| Anything else | 5 | Tourist |
| Time ran out | 0 | Lost in Time |
Being twenty years off the invention of the iPhone is a poor guess. Being twenty years off the destruction of Pompeii is an excellent one. Eraly scales the allowed error with the age of the event: the further back you travel, the more generous the window, and the more the game rewards real historical intuition over rote dates.
Everything is decided in your browser the moment you press GO — no accounts, no server round-trips, and the same seven moments for everyone playing today.
Five skies to cross
The eras of Eraly
Every guess moves the airship along a single, continuous timeline from the first century to today. Land a perfect answer and the sky turns to gold.
Medieval
500 – 1449 AD
Castles, monasteries, crusades and caravans.
Early Modern
1450 – 1699 AD
Print, exploration, gunpowder empires and revolution.
Industrial
1700 – 1944 AD
Steam, factories, railways and world wars.
Modern
1945 – today
Space, screens and the world we know.
A small game with high standards
Why Eraly
Verified
History you can check
Every fact is drawn from a cited Wikipedia article, with a source link on each reveal. No invented dates, no made-up trivia.
Original
A world worth looking at
Original pixel art, five hand-built eras, parallax skies, weather and particle effects. No stock illustrations, no template layout.
Sounding good
An original soundtrack
Five era themes and adaptive layers, synthesised in your browser. The music responds to the clock, the era and the answer.
Quiet by design
No noise, no sign-up
No ads, no account, no noisy sign-ups. The game is keyboard playable and reduced-motion aware, your streak stays in your own browser, and we only use Google Analytics and Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate traffic statistics.
About the game
What is Eraly?
Eraly is a free daily history game at eraly.net. Every day you get seven moments from history — a battle, an invention, a famous first — and one guess at the year each one happened. The closer your guess, the further your airship travels through five eras, from ancient empires to the modern world.
There is no sign-up and no app to install: Eraly runs in your browser, on desktop and mobile. Each daily puzzle is the same for everyone playing on that local date, and a new one appears at local midnight. Every answer reveals a short, verified fact with a link to the Wikipedia article it came from, so you can check the history for yourself.
Prefer a longer run? The free Endless Expedition mode gives you three chrono-cells, score combos and a tightening clock. If you are looking for a daily history game, a year-guessing quiz, or simply a two-minute time-travel break, Eraly is built for you.
Loose ends
Frequently asked questions
What is Eraly?
Eraly is a free daily history game. Every day you get seven moments from history and one guess at the year each one happened. The closer your guess, the further your airship travels through five eras, from Ancient to Modern.
How do I play the daily game?
Read the moment, type the year you think it happened and press GO. You have 25 seconds for each of the seven questions. After each guess you see the real year, a verified fact and a link to the source.
Is Eraly free to play?
Yes. The daily journey and the endless expedition are both free, with no account and no ads. We use Google Analytics and Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate traffic statistics; the game itself runs entirely in your browser.
When does a new Eraly puzzle appear?
A new daily puzzle appears at midnight in your local time. Season I opened on 25 October 2026 — that date is Day 1, and the day number counts forward from there, wrapping back to Day 1 after 365 days. The seven moments are the same for everyone playing on that date.
How does scoring work in Eraly?
Each answer earns up to 100 points out of a possible 700 for the day: exact year 100, very close 85, near 60, rough 35, far 15, otherwise 5, and 0 if you do not answer. Older events allow more years of error, because exact dates are harder to know the further back you travel.
Where do the history facts come from?
Every fact is drawn from the cited Wikipedia article and links to it on the reveal card. Eraly does not invent history: questions are built from verified daily-history records and each answer can be checked at its source.
What is the Endless Expedition?
The Endless Expedition is Eraly's free infinite mode. You start with three chrono-cells, build combos for score multipliers, earn extra lives with exact answers and see how many laps through history you can complete before the clock and your luck run out.
Does Eraly save my progress and streak?
Yes. Progress, results, streaks and personal bests are saved privately in your own browser using local storage. There is no account and no data is sent to a server.