TimeLineup: The football timeline ordering game
TimeLineup is a football history puzzle. You are handed a shuffled set of famous moments (transfers, trophies, debuts, records, iconic matches) and your job is to drag them into the correct chronological order. No dates are shown while you play, so you are ranking events purely on your sense of when football history happened.
It is a different kind of football knowledge from naming a stadium or guessing a fee. TimeLineup tests whether you can place the sport’s big moments on a timeline relative to each other, which is exactly the kind of thing fans debate endlessly. Solve it in as few tries as possible to score the most, and share the daily lineup so friends can attempt the same puzzle.
How to play TimeLineup
- Drag each football moment up or down to build your best guess at date order.
- Lock your order to check it against the real timeline.
- Green means a moment is in the right slot; red means it belongs elsewhere.
- Use the feedback to rearrange the red cards and solve it in as few tries as you can.
Tips to score higher
Anchor the extremes first: Place the moment you are most sure is oldest and the one you are most sure is newest, then slot the rest between those anchors. Confident endpoints make the middle far easier.
Trust the green, move the red: Once a card turns green it is in the right slot, so leave it alone. Focus every follow-up attempt on the red cards to close in on the solution without wasting tries.
Group by era: Think in decades rather than exact years. Sorting the events into rough eras first, then fine-tuning the order within each era, is quicker than trying to date every moment precisely.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to know exact dates?
No. You only need the relative order. Knowing that one moment came before another is enough, and the game never asks you to type a year.
How many tries do I get?
Each puzzle gives you a limited number of attempts. Solving it in fewer tries earns a higher score, so the colour feedback is there to help you close it out efficiently.
Can my friends play the same lineup?
Yes. The daily lineup is shared by everyone, and random lineups can be passed on with a link so friends attempt the exact same set of moments.
Read more
- A working timeline of modern football - You do not need to memorise dates. You need a handful of anchors, and everything else slots between them.
- Six rule changes that reshaped football - Tactics get the credit, but several of football's biggest shifts began as a line of text in the laws of the game.