What is Gazillion?
Gazillion is a free daily history game — and one of the more unusual gazillion game experiments on the web. Every day you are dealt five real moments from the whole of time: a first flight, a forgotten law, a dinosaur, a moon landing, the day a song changed everything. Your job is to say when it happened by narrowing a range on a timeline that spans 13.8 billion years, from the Big Bang to this morning.
The rules are easy to explain and hard to master. Trap the year inside your two brackets and you score up to 1,000 points per moment; the tighter the trap, the more you score. Miss it and you still get half the points you would have earned by stretching the range to include the truth. Five moments a day, one try a day, and a pixel dinosaur who travels further back in time the better you play.
How to play the Gazillion game
- Read the moment. A single line, no dates — that is the whole clue.
- Trap the year. Tap the timeline where you think it happened, then drag the two lime brackets closer around your best guess. You can also type years.
- Lock it in. The needle drops on the real date, your score rolls up, and a fact tells you why the moment matters.
- Go deeper. Five rounds, up to 5,000 points a day. Your total decides how far back the dinosaur gets to travel: from tonight's city skyline all the way to the Big Bang.
Not sure yet? A hint tells you the decade, the century or a rough ten-year window, and costs part of that round's maximum score. Timers are gentle at 40 seconds a moment, and you can turn on reduced motion in settings if the journey is too exciting.
Why "Gazillion"?
A gazillion is not a real number — it is what you say when a number is too big to bother counting. History is exactly like that: a gazillion moments, most of them forgotten, all of them connected. The game picks five of them each day and asks you to place them on the same absurd timeline. Five moments, one colossal scale, zero chance you get them all without thinking about how history actually fits together.
The eight eras you travel through
This history timeline is not a straight line of equal years — the last five centuries would be a hairline next to the Big Bang. So Gazillion uses a logarithmic scale and divides the journey into eight eras: the Modern Era, the Middle Ages, the Ancient World, the Stone Age, the Ice Age, the Dinosaurs, the Young Earth and the Big Bang. Every corridor has its own scene, its own colours and its own feel: drag the old bracket and the world around the timeline changes with it.
Modes: all free, no paywall
- Daily 5 — the same five moments for everyone, once a day.
- Unlimited — endless moments and three lives; a round with no points costs one.
- Archive — every past daily is playable whenever you like.
- Time Machine — pick your favourite eras and play a run that never leaves them.
No accounts, no ads, no cards to add. Your streak, stamps and results live on your own device.
Tips from the time-travelling dinosaur
- Guess the era first, then the year. Most misses are era misses, not decade misses.
- Recent moments are scored harder. A twenty-year range around 1969 is loose; around the dinosaurs it is a miracle.
- When in doubt, aim a little older. Things take longer to happen than the tidy headline suggests.
- Read the wording. "First", "begins", "goes on sale" and "is discovered" are different dates on purpose.
- Protect the streak. One daily a day beats a heroic ten-game catch-up.
Gazillion game: questions and answers
The short answers to the questions players ask most about Gazillion, the free daily history game.
What is the Gazillion game?
Gazillion is a free daily history game. Every day you get five moments and guess when each one happened by narrowing a range on a timeline that runs from the Big Bang to today. The narrower your range, the more points you score, and your points send a pixel dinosaur further back in time.
How do you score points in Gazillion?
Each moment is worth up to 1,000 points. If the real year falls inside your range you score according to how narrow the range is, compared with how long ago the event happened. If you just miss it, you still get half of what stretching your range would have scored, fading with distance.
Is Gazillion free?
Yes. Every mode is free: the Daily 5, Unlimited, the Archive and Time Machine runs. There are no accounts, no ads and no paywalls.
When does a new Gazillion puzzle appear?
A new Daily 5 appears at midnight in your own local time. One game a day, the same five moments for everyone that day.
Can I play old Gazillion dailies?
Yes. Every past daily stays playable in the Archive, free forever. Replays do not affect your current streak.