Brain Teasers
Time Crunch
Put the events in order, oldest to newest. Exact order only.
- Category
- Brain Teasers
- Players
- 2–10 players
- Duration
- ~10 minutes (estimate)
- Best group size
- We recommend 3 to 8 players, enough to make the ranked scoring competitive. It works with 2.
How to play
Time Crunch is a history sorting game. It works with two or more players and plays ten rounds.
Each round, a set of events appears on your phone. You have 60 seconds to drag them into order, from oldest to newest, then lock in your answer. Only an exactly correct order scores. If even one event is out of place, your answer earns nothing that round.
Among the players who get it right, speed decides the points. The fastest correct sort earns 1,000 points, the second 700, the third 500 and the fourth 400. Every correct answer after that earns 300. After each round, the correct order is revealed on the TV along with who got it.
The fun comes from the arguments about history that break out the moment the answer is revealed. Plenty of events feel like they happened decades before they actually did, and someone is always convinced the game is wrong.
Tips for hosts
- Tell players to double-check before locking in. A fast wrong answer is worth nothing.
- Encourage people to anchor on the one event they are sure about, then fit the rest around it.
- It is a calm, thoughtful game that works well in the middle of the night.
- Mixed-age groups do especially well, since different generations know different decades.
Best for
Best for: History buffs and groups who enjoy a friendly argument.
Play Time Crunch
Open Sofa Showdown on a laptop or computer connected to your TV, choose Time Crunch from the game shelf, and share the four-letter room code with your friends.
Play now Opens hosting on this screen. Nothing starts until you choose a game.