A daily historical atlas
A teal pin marks the birth. A gold pin marks the death. The years tick by.
Atlas of Life is a daily guessing game that turns history into a map. Read the arc of a life — birthplace to deathbed, the distance crossed, the century spanned — and figure out who it was. Scientists, artists, leaders, outlaws. A new puzzle every day.
How it works
Each puzzle is the silhouette of a life — two coordinates, two dates, and the distance between them. Your job is to read that arc and name the person who lived it.
A teal pin marks the birth. A gold pin marks the death. The years and distance appear between them.
Type your guess. Six tries. No autocomplete, no hints unless you spend gems. Each guess shapes the answer box.
Win and a portrait is revealed, along with the story — who they were, what they did, why the arc bent that way.
Share your result as a clean diagram of the arc — no name, no portrait. Friends see the shape, not the answer.
Six tries
Each letter fills a box. Green — right letter, right spot. Yellow — right letter, wrong spot. Wrong answer, the boxes go dark. Six tries to unlock the portrait.
Ulm, 1879 → Princeton, 1955 · 6,100 km · 76 years
The Atlas of Time
A standalone historical map. Drag the timeline to 1492 or 1850 and see who ruled, what they worshipped, what language they spoke. Encounter famous lives as pins on the map — tap one to play it as a puzzle.
The Atlas of Time is not a quiz. It's a reading room — a way to wander the shape of human civilization, century by century, and find the lives that bent it.
Free to play
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