How to play the game

There are 3 games currently available:

Pairs	The game will present the player with 2 historical events. All that is required is for the player to state which happened first.
Dates	The game will present the player with a historical event and a selection of dates. The player must select the correct one.
Sort-3	The game will present the player with 3 historical events. The player must select the correct chronological order in which the events happened.

Each game can be played at 1 of 4 levels of difficulty:

Easy

Medium

Hard

Expert

The difficulty of the challenge is gauged by the relative obscurity of the event(s) and the period of history in which they took place. The points available reflect the difficulty and will be added to the player's total if answered correctly and subtracted if answered incorrectly. A points bonus can be won for 5 consecutive correct answers.

In either case all events are added to the player's personal ‘Timeline’. This ‘Timeline’ will be available for the player to view in a linear representation, allowing them to traverse their collection of events. By default, only the last 25 events selected by the game will be seen, but more can be shown.

The player's total score will be shown on the leaderboard along with the other players. No personal information will be shown on the leaderboard.

If the user wants to learn more about an event they will be able to click on 'Learn more..' and the event details will be automatically loaded into a search engine.

Each Sunday, players are sent an email (unless they have opted out) listing historical events that happened in the coming week. It is also possible to view a Timeline of events that happened 'Today' back in history.