What Did It Cost Back Then?
Guess the price. Beat your friends. Travel through history.
Guess what iconic toys, consoles, cars and everyday products cost when they launched, and where they came from. Then discover what those prices would be worth today.
10 questions · same for everyone · on the leaderboard
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—Pin where it was first invented or created, not where it was later made or sold.
That’s about in today’s money
💡 Need a hint?
Think about the era and what similar items cost at the time.
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Pin the place. Guess the price.
Pick how you want to play. In Classic, you just guess what each product cost when it first launched. In Expert, you also spin a globe and pin where it came from, for twice the points. We reveal the real price, what it would cost in today’s money and, in Expert, how far off your pin was. Ten rounds, one score to beat, and a separate leaderboard for each mode.
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How rankings and divisions work
- Daily: your score in today’s challenge. Only your first try counts.
- Weekly: your daily scores added up, Monday to Sunday (UTC). Every day you play adds to it, so play daily to climb.
- All-time: your skill rating, from 0 to 100: your average over your last 20 daily challenges, as a percentage of each day’s best possible score. It decides your division and your world ranking. You are placed after 3 daily challenges.
Only players who choose to join are listed, under a name they pick. Everyone who plays counts towards the world ranking.
Where From? How Much?
Historical prices, then and nowA daily nostalgia quiz about real launch prices
Every round is a real product, from a 1950s toy to a brand-new games console. First drop a pin where you think it comes from (each round tells you whether that means where it was invented, designed, first made or first sold), then guess the launch price. We reveal what it really cost and what that price would be in today’s money, adjusted for inflation.
It’s part price-guessing game, part geography quiz and part history lesson. Play the daily challenge to climb the leaderboard, or practise one category at a time.
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