Pop music quiz: place the hits on a timeline
Pop is the genre everyone knows, which is exactly why the years are so hard to guess. Fill your timeline faster than your friends.
Free to try. Log in with an email code, no password and no app to install.
Pop does not have a single sound, it borrows the sound of its time. A pop song from 1985 and one from 2015 are both catchy, but the drums, the synths and the vocal effects give the year away if you listen.
A pop deck is the safest first choice for a mixed group: almost every card is a song somebody has sung along to, so nobody sits out.
How it works
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Log in with a code
Enter your email address and type the code we send you. No password, no app.
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Pick a deck
Choose a popular deck, one of your own, or scan the QR code of a deck you have.
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Add the players
Add everyone who plays and choose how many cards are needed to win. One phone is enough.
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Listen and place
Hear a 30 second preview and place the song on your timeline. Right answers grow your timeline, the first to fill it wins.
The timeline in one look
Every player builds a timeline of songs in release order. You never see the year of the new song: you listen, then decide where it fits between the songs you already placed.
Tips for this game
Follow the production
Pop reinvents its sound every few years. Learn the changes and you can place almost any song.
Mix decades
Five decades of pop in one deck gives wide gaps and fast, friendly rounds.
Sing the second verse
If you can sing past the chorus, you probably remember where you heard it. That is your year.
What you get
One phone, whole group
The phone goes from hand to hand. Nobody needs their own device or an account.
Real music
Songs play as 30 second previews, enough to recognise a chorus and argue about the year.
Free decks to start
Popular public decks are free to play. Want your own songs? Turn any playlist into a deck, the first 100 cards are free.
Prefer real cards?
The same game also exists on printed cards with a QR code on every card. See how that works for this subject.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a pop deck?
Look in the popular decks after logging in, or paste any pop playlist to make your own in a minute.
Is pop too easy?
Knowing a song and dating it are different skills. Most players are surprised how often they are off by ten years.
Do I need to install an app?
No. The game runs in your phone browser. You only log in with a code sent to your email address.
Can we play together on different phones?
Not yet. The game is made for one phone that the group passes around, the way you would pass a stack of cards.
Ready to play?
Open the game, log in with a code and start your first round in a minute.
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