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Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order

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186 points maskinberg | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 06:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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NoboruWataya ◴[24 Jun 25 14:42 UTC] No.44366808[source]▶
Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)

Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest time it happened was later than the next latest event but in another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?

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Aspos ◴[24 Jun 25 16:53 UTC] No.44368236[source]▶
"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
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leoc ◴[24 Jun 25 17:01 UTC] No.44368328[source]▶
Rugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
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1. btilly ◴[25 Jun 25 06:36 UTC] No.44374206[source]▶
For what it is worth, when I hear "Six Nations", I think "Iroquois Confederacy".

And as parochial as you think that American sports are, the USA has a population that is half again as big as the "Six Nations" that you intended. And here is an important fact. Most people in the world who speak English as their first language, live in the USA. The dominance of American perspectives in online conversations in English reflects our actual representation among native English speakers.