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[Barrister]

Kind of fun - got 3409 my first time around.

[mongers]

Kind of fun - got 3409 my first time around.

Only 2657 on my first go. 

3741 2nd go, but there was a dead easy Kennedy campaigning shot, so highly likely to be 1960.

I have a feeling given the guessometer starts at 1960, there will likely always be a 1960 photo?

[frunk]

Every once in a while one of the pictures doesn't show up, very annoying.  I had a 3272 on 4 rounds, but the fifth was a zero because nothing showed up.

[mongers]

Kind of fun - got 3409 my first time around.

Only 2657 on my first go. 

3741 2nd go, but there was a dead easy Kennedy campaigning shot, so highly likely to be 1960.

I have a feeling given the guessometer starts at 1960, there will likely always be a 1960 photo?

Fourth go 4179.

One was a swear a shot of steve MacQueen's car from bullit, but couldn't remember when that was had thought 1968, but figured it could be a couple of years earlier, so missed out on the 1000 pts.

[mongers]

Kind of fun - got 3409 my first time around.

Only 2657 on my first go. 

3741 2nd go, but there was a dead easy Kennedy campaigning shot, so highly likely to be 1960.

I have a feeling given the guessometer starts at 1960, there will likely always be a 1960 photo?

Fourth go 4179.

One was a swear a shot of steve MacQueen's car from bullit, but couldn't remember when that was had thought 1968, but figured it could be a couple of years earlier, so missed out on the 1000 pts.

4361 on my 5th and final go, got two 1000s, one year out on two other pictures, but a 1960s B&W shot from a Lebanese school was 7 years too early so only 513 for that one. 

[The Larch]

For me the hardest ones are from the 80s onwards. I swear I never get any right, it could be from the late 80s or from the early 00s and I'll still mix the dates up.

[celedhring]

3345 in my best go (4 attempts). Might try to beat it later. A lot depends on the pictures you get (I got blessed with 'Nam and Clinton pictures in my best attempt that were easy to place).

[The Larch]

3345 in my best go (4 attempts). Might try to beat it later. A lot depends on the pictures you get (I got blessed with 'Nam and Clinton pictures in my best attempt that were easy to place).

I once got a picture of Clinton getting sworn in, so I was down to two options. Of course, I picked the wrong one. 

I've had several pictures from the Chinese civil war. No 'nam pics yet for me.

[Grey Fox]

3481 on my 1st try. Went downhill from there.

[Admiral Yi]

Consistently in the 2000s.

[Grey Fox]

I find identifying early 20th century pictures that have no transportation or electricity infrastructure incredibly difficult. 1902 or 1929 who knows? I sure don't.

[The Larch]

Just got a really bizarre one. It's four old-timey looking military dudes in front of a truck with a cross on it (a Red Cross truck, maybe? The pic is b/w, so no way to tell). I'm pretty sure it's from WWI when I then realize that there's a swastika in a logo on the truck. So now I'm a bit flabbergasted... early nazis, maybe? So I put the mid 30s... and it turns out it was from 1916.

Now I'm wondering where in WWI one could see a swastika...

Edit: Another tricky one. It's one with weird colours, so maybe it's a colorized b/w picture. It features some kind of office room gathering of what look like tribal elders from some Central Asian country. Given the weird colours I instantly think it's maybe from the early XXth century... but then I notice something lying in the table. I zoom in... and it's a cellphone.

[Josquius]

I suck at that game.
They've done some interesting processing on the images to make stuff from 2000 look like its from the 60s.
The only one I got was 2 guys sitting in a room of electronic equipment which I recognised from the hairstyles as the 20s.

[The Larch]

I suck at that game.
They've done some interesting processing on the images to make stuff from 2000 look like its from the 60s.
The only one I got was 2 guys sitting in a room of electronic equipment which I recognised from the hairstyles as the 20s.

Looking into details really pays. I just had a picture of a demonstration in an Asian country, that looked like relatively recent but for what I knew could be from the 80s or 90s. I paused and looked around and actually, half hidden, I could see a placard with the face of Aung San Suu Kyi.

[Josquius]

True.

Tried again. Had one with a super 80s looking black guy with parachute pants and a punky looking woman. Instinct went "80s".
Then I thought... "No. Too fat. 2001." - it was 1998.

Then I got one with two boys sitting under a coke umbrella. Could have been anything between 1970s and today.