An activity I’ve been enjoying the past couple of weeks.

https://anthropeum.com

“Each daily game features ten artifacts from the Met's collection. For each artifact, you place a pin on a map (your best guess at where it was made) and select a time period. Points are based on how close you get on both dimensions. After your 10 rounds, you'll see your score on a distribution curve of everyone who played that day.”

45 minutes ago, swansont said:

An activity I’ve been enjoying the past couple of weeks.

https://anthropeum.com

“Each daily game features ten artifacts from the Met's collection. For each artifact, you place a pin on a map (your best guess at where it was made) and select a time period. Points are based on how close you get on both dimensions. After your 10 rounds, you'll see your score on a distribution curve of everyone who played that day.”

Too hard for me guv.

Hmm a pin makes it harder. Otherwise I would have just blindly guessed "British Empire", Or perhaps "Mongol Empire".

Edit: It is fun, though.

For me a pin makes it easier, since the various ancient empires are often larger than the modern borders I associate with them. I can also place a pin near the border of two or three civilizations if I can’t narrow it down. (e.g. Britain/France, or Japan/Korea/China)

After playing a dozen times I’ve learned a few things, and gotten better at my gut reaction of what continent something is from. Plus a bit of refinement on how old/young things are.

The date bar froze, stopped registering taps, but the first couple guesses worked okay. Some guesses allow common sense, e.g. mud artifacts probably from an arid region. Greco-Roman statuary, stelae, reliefs, frescoes are fairly recognizable.

I got a biphasic distribution on geography, it seems. Either dead on (probably the easy bits) or half a continent away (but strangely, the precise time period).