What Year Is It?

What Year Is It started from a simple observation: film buffs can date a movie within a few years from almost nothing — grain, color grade, haircuts, aspect ratio, the way people hold phones. The game distills that skill into a guessing loop and scores how close you get. It’s live and playable right now, but I’m deliberately not calling it a beta: rounds are randomly drawn rather than daily-seeded, there’s no shared score to compare against, and there’s no instrumentation telling me whether anyone finishes a round. Those three gaps are the same gap — the Wordle loop. A deterministic daily puzzle gives everyone the same challenge, an emoji-grid share format gives them a reason to talk about it, and a single puzzle_completed event tells me whether the loop actually closes.

Hover a bar — React island hydrated in MDX.

Roadmap

• Daily-style round with timeline UI
• Production on wyit.film
• Shared results that aren’t ugly
• Soft streak / archive of past stills