Index guide
WhenTaken
Study a historical photograph, place a location pin, choose the year on a timeline, and combine both estimates into a score across five daily rounds.
This publisher asks players to open the game on its official site.
Why it stands out
The best clue must make sense on both the map and the timeline.
WhenTaken is valuable because location and date can confirm or contradict each other. A plausible city is not enough when the architecture, vehicles, or photographic style point to a different decade.
Best for
- History and geography players who enjoy extracting multiple clue types from one photo.
- People who prefer a scored five-round session to a single binary answer.
Think twice if
- Players looking for a very short one-guess daily puzzle.
The official flow separates evidence into a photo, an interactive map, and a year selector. A round is not ready to submit until the player has made both spatial and temporal estimates.
The verified browser session loaded the five-round board and year control, but its map tiles did not render reliably in the automation environment. The game remains anonymous and reachable; the approved image therefore uses the official explanatory overview rather than a partially blank map state.
How to play
- Inspect the photograph for geographic and historical clues before opening the map and year controls.
- Place a pin on the world map and choose a year with the slider or year input.
- Submit both estimates, review the score, and repeat the process through five rounds.
Game passport
A quick read before you play.
Play
- Mechanics
- Photo geolocation, Timeline estimation, Multi-round scoring
- Input
- Place a map pin, set a year slider or input, and submit both estimates
- Language load
- Low
Access
- Price
- Free to play
- Account
- Not required
- Mobile friendly
- Yes
Return
- Cadence
- Daily
- Archive
- Available
- Stats / sharing
- Not confirmed / Not confirmed
Index status
- Editorial depth
- Guide
- Play time
- About 8–12 minutes
- Difficulty
- Demanding
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In the collections
A reason to choose this game.
Source ledger
The evidence behind this page.
Unit 09 rechecked WhenTaken's identity, anonymous play route, instructions, primary controls and representative feedback on 2026-07-20; editorial estimates are labeled separately.
- WhenTakenOfficial, Web, checked 14 July 2026
- WhenTakenOfficial, Web, checked 14 July 2026
- WhenTaken official browser game — Unit 09 playtestOfficial, Web, checked 20 July 2026
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