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Tuesday, 3 November 2026

Timeline

Get the six events into the order they actually happened, earliest at the top. You do not need the years. You score for every one you put in the right place.

Earliest
  1. Uluru is handed back to its traditional owners
  2. An earthquake and the wave after it destroy Lisbon
  3. A Chinese spacecraft lands on the far side of the Moon
  4. Newton publishes the Principia and its laws of motion
  5. The Baghdad house of wisdom becomes a centre for translating Greek learning
  6. The Union of South Africa is formed out of four colonies
Latest

Move each one up or down. Nothing counts until you send the column.

Stopping here leaves the round without a column in it, which scores nothing. The years still come back. To be marked, send the order.

Today’s board

In the right place, best first · points

Nobody has solved this one today. Make an account and your name goes up here when you do. This board ranks solved runs, because it ranks them on the clock and a part-solved grid cannot be compared with a finished one. Every go earns points on the leaderboards either way.

This week, this month and all time

Timeline

Get the six events into the order they actually happened, earliest at the top. You do not need the years. You score for every one you put in the right place.

  1. Read the six events. They are in no particular order.There are no dates anywhere on the board, and no two of them happened within fifteen years of each other, so nothing here is a coin flip.
  2. Move each one up or down until earliest is at the top and latest is at the bottom.Move them as often as you like. Nothing counts until you send the column.
  3. Send it and read the ledger.You score for every event you put exactly where it belongs. Six out of six is perfect, and the result shows your column next to the right one so you can see what moved.

Scored on in the right place.

What the words mean
In the right place:
an event you put exactly where it belonged. That count is your whole score, and you can check it against the column on the screen, which is the point of scoring it that way
Par:
the best anybody could do, which here is all six in the right place. Every set has a perfect answer and somebody who knows the six dates will find it
Earliest and latest:
the two ends of the column. Earliest is at the top and latest at the bottom, and both ends are labelled so nobody has to guess which way it runs
The set:
the six events dealt for the day. They come from at least four different parts of the world and at least three different walks of life, so it is never six of the same thing

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