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Eraly
A daily history game: seven moments from history, the same for everyone. Type the year each one happened; the closer you are, the more you score.
Made by the Eraly team. Plays here from eraly.io
Free, no sign-up. The game loads from eraly.io when you press Play.
Setting off through time
Loading Eraly from eraly.io
- Moments
- 7 a day
- Timer
- 25 s each
- Top score
- 700 a day
- Years
- AD 1 to today
- New puzzle
- Midnight, local
- Price
- Daily game free
How to play Eraly
Seven guesses a day, with at most 25 seconds for each. Here is a full journey, start to share.
Start the journey
Press Play above, then Start the journey. Everyone gets the same seven moments today.
Read the moment
A battle, an invention, a famous first, or something from art, sport or science. The timer starts at once.
Type a year, press GO
You then see the real year and a short fact about it, and your explorer walks on through time.
Share your total
After the seventh answer, Share gives your score and a coloured square for each answer, with no years given away.
How Eraly scoring works
Each guess earns one of six scores, so a perfect day is 700. How far off you can be depends on how long ago the moment happened: older moments give you more room.
| Moment | Year | 85 within | 60 within | 30 within |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The first iPhone | 2007 | 5 | 20 | 50 |
| Columbus reaches the Americas | 1492 | 16 | 65 | 163 |
| Pompeii is buried | 79 | 31 | 125 | 312 |
Examples from Eraly’s own rules page. 100 always means the exact year, any typed year further off still scores 10, and only a blank answer scores 0.
The six eras of the journey
Your explorer starts in the year 1 and walks forward with every point you score; a perfect 700 brings them to today. The bar is to scale, so the Middle Ages fill almost half of it and the digital age is a sliver.
Roman legions, temples and the end of the Western Empire.
Castles, cathedrals and longships: the longest stretch of the walk.
Printing presses, painters and voyages to new continents.
Steam engines, factories and the first railways.
Cars, flight, radio and the space race.
Home computers, the internet and a phone in every pocket.
Eraly tips for a better score
Hang it on a date you know
Tie the moment to a year you are sure of, like the French Revolution or the Moon landing, then count forwards or back.
Read the wording for clues
A first flight, photograph or broadcast tells you the century before you think about the decade.
Don’t chase the exact year on old moments
For Pompeii in 79, anything within 31 years still scores 85. Get the century right and move on.
Never let the timer run out
Any typed year scores at least 10; a blank answer scores 0. Guess before the 25 seconds are up.
Daily, Infinite, leaderboards and the Wardrobe
The daily journey is free. Everything else Eraly offers sits around it.
The daily journey
Seven moments a day, the same for every player, new at midnight your local time. No account, no sign-up.
Infinite time-travel and the Archive
Journey after journey with no daily limit, plus every past daily to replay. It also turns off Eraly’s ads. You buy it on eraly.io.
Leaderboards with friends
Make a leaderboard, pick a nickname and share the link. Daily scores add up over the week, Monday to Sunday, and the month, with the top three on a podium.
The Wardrobe
Playing unlocks scarves, jackets, hats, gear and trails for your explorer. Days played, your streak, +100 and +85 answers and big days all count.
Playing Eraly on this page
The game above is Eraly itself, loaded from eraly.io when you press Play. The puzzle is the same as on eraly.io: same seven moments, same timer, same scoring. Eraly is made by the team at eraly.io; Daily Rare Answer only shows it here and is not connected to them.
Your streak and Wardrobe are saved by your browser. Most browsers keep what a game saves inside another site apart from what it saves on its own site, so if you already have a streak going on eraly.io, keep playing there. To buy Infinite time-travel or sign in with Google, open eraly.io in its own tab.
Eraly has one right answer for every moment. If you also like games where many answers are right and the rare ones win, play today’s Daily Rare Answer.
Eraly FAQ
What is Eraly?
Eraly is a free daily history game from eraly.io. Each day it shows the same seven moments from history to every player, and you guess the year each one happened, from AD 1 to today. The closer your guess, the more points you score, up to 700 a day.
Is it Eraly or Early?
Eraly, spelled E-R-A-L-Y, as in era. It is easy to type “early” by mistake when searching for it.
When is there a new Eraly puzzle?
Every day at midnight, your local time. Everyone gets the same seven moments that day.
Is Eraly free?
Yes. The daily game is free, with no account and no sign-up. Eraly also sells an optional one-time upgrade, Infinite time-travel, for $5 on eraly.io.
Is there an Eraly unlimited mode?
Yes: Infinite time-travel lets you play journey after journey with no daily limit. It is the one-time $5 upgrade on eraly.io, and it also turns off Eraly’s ads. The daily journey stays free.
Can I play past Eraly days?
Only with Infinite time-travel, which comes with the Archive of every past daily. The free game is today’s journey only.
What happens if I miss a day?
Your streak starts again from the next daily you play. Outfits you have already unlocked in the Wardrobe stay unlocked.
Do I need to know BC dates?
No. Every moment in Eraly is AD, between the year 1 and today, so you never have to count backwards.
Is this the official Eraly?
The game you play on this page is the official one, loaded from eraly.io. This page is written by Daily Rare Answer, which is not connected to the Eraly team. To buy the upgrade or sign in, use eraly.io in its own tab.
Is Eraly like Krillion?
Not really. Eraly has one right year for each moment and scores how close you get. Krillion and other rare answer games accept many right answers and score the ones few players give. Daily Rare Answer, on our home page, is that kind of game.
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