Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

>edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0

How is that even possible? Only three years off? I thought guessing it which tens would be good enough. Getting the last digit right is impossible without blind luck? Or am I missing something?

For some images, it involves some luck. But one image was WWII for example, that one is much easier to get accurately.

I averaged 5 years off, but my average would have been much better without one photo that I botched by 16 years because I'm unfamiliar with early 19th century swimsuit styles.

There were 2 major world events represented, that helps. Clothing style helps.

I got 3.2. Spoilers below.

Round 1 I just guessed in the middle of the 70s.

Round 2 I was 5 years off, but I should have been able to get closer if I'd slowed down. Someone with a better knowledge of modern Middle Eastern uprisings or Arabic could have read the signs, but also the tech in everyone's hands was pretty closely dated.

Round 3 was pretty clearly the London Blitz—the uniform was WW2 era and people were piled on top of each other in a London Tube station—which narrowed it down to basically a single year.

Round 4 was another guess-the-decade shot, I was 6 years off (I guessed 1940). Had I thought about it harder it would have been unlikely to have been taken during WW2, which would have bumped my guess up a few years to be closer.

Round 5 was a bunch of protesters who were pretty clearly in the mid-to-late 2000s (cell phone in the background), and the topic of their protest was gay marriage which had a single very important flashpoint in that decade with Prop 8 in 2008.

4586 Avg. years off 5

I felt like I should have been able to be closer. The images wouldn't zoom on my phone though. I'm impressed by three years off but would consider it quite possible for somone who knows their history.

If you guessed the 19th century, you were off by a bit more than 16 years.

Score 4722 Avg. Years Off 2.6 here. Spoilers: I got two exactly right (Arab Spring, Battle of Britain) and one off by a year (dancing). The two exacts were pretty obviously tied to specific dated events, and I both love history and have a pretty easy time remembering dates. I love this sort of game, as I do trivia, history trivia especially.

> Score: 4947; Avg. Years Off: 1.2

Skill issue.

And here I complain about people erroneously specifying EST all summer along. They’re only off by 1 hour.

I skip specifying Standard or Daylight time altogether, and just use ET (or CT, MT, etc). Much easier on my brain, and nobody actually cares which they're in at the moment.

I got one off by 20 years, oops. But there's two where I think you can get exact or off by 1 with some knowledge of world events, maybe it's a 50/50 shot. And there's two where the half-decade is pretty clear.

Round 1 was the same.

Round 2 I guessed it was something to do with Arab Spring but without looking up the year of it happened I remember it was late 00s or early 10s so I put 2010.

Round 3

>and people were piled on top of each other in a London Tube station—which narrowed it down to basically a single year.

Not sure that is a knowledge I know but I only guess it was WWII, again without looking it up I only remember it as the 40s.

Round 4 I had the same thought so I guess something like 1960s because I thought it wasn't WWII.

Round 5, not from US so I only know / heard of Prop 8 when Mozilla fired their CTO Brendan Eich. I thought it happened in early to mid 2010s.