The idea
Origins is a chronological comparison game. Each round shows two events, products, discoveries, releases or other date-backed items. Pick the one that happened earlier, then see both dates immediately before moving to the next comparison.
Rules, step by step
- Read both choices without dates.
- Select the item you believe occurred earlier.
- The choice locks as soon as you submit it; you cannot revise an answered round.
- Review the two revealed dates and continue to the next pair.
- Complete every comparison in the daily set to finish the puzzle.
Worked example
A round might compare “YouTube launched” with “Twitter launched”.
- Choose the event you think happened first.
- YouTube launched in 2005 and Twitter launched in 2006.
- Choosing YouTube is correct, and both dates remain visible long enough to turn the result into a useful fact.
Strategy
- Anchor uncertain choices to a decade, major event or technology generation before trying to recall an exact year.
- Look for dependencies: a product that relied on another technology usually came later.
- Separate the event named in the prompt from similar milestones such as founding, public launch and acquisition.
- Use the revealed dates to calibrate later guesses; the game is designed to teach as well as test.
Finishing the game
Your result is the number of correct comparisons. A wrong choice costs only that point and does not stop the daily set.