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Six steps: the daily game that links two subjects through verified facts
Every day brings a start, a target and up to six steps. At each step you pick a link between two pages of this site, which is mostly about Romania and a few other places: a name or a year that both mention, with the two verified facts side by side.
Game of the day
Your route
Pick the link
Marks the link that gets you closer to the target. One hint per game.
The constellation of projects
Each point is a project on this site, each line a verified link. The projects you have visited light up, and today’s route appears in red.
Your statistics
Achievements
Archive
Every day stays playable. Archive games do not change your streak.
Rules
- Every day everyone gets the same pair: a start and a target, two projects on this site. The day changes at midnight Romanian time.
- At each step you pick from three to five links. A link exists only when two projects name the same thing (a place, a person, an institution) or the same date in verified facts. You see the two facts, quoted word for word.
- You have at most six steps. When par is five steps, you have seven. Par is the shortest route between the two ends.
- Green means you got closer to the target; yellow means you stayed the same distance away; red means you got farther away.
- One hint per game marks the link that gets you closer. Using it shows in the text you send.
- Each step shows the projects you touched, with a “Read the project” link. The link opens in a new tab, and the game stays where you left it.
- If you reach the target you earn points and your streak grows. Every seven days in a row you get a shield that covers one missed day (two shields at most).
- Archive and practice games do not change your streak. You can send a friend to the same pair with the share button.
The calendar covers 130 days; after that the pairs are shuffled again.
How the links are made
- Each link starts from the verified facts in Did you know?: one fact in each project names the same thing or the same date. The fact appears word for word, with a link to the paragraph in the project.
- There are no invented links. If two pages do not mention the same thing, they are not linked, even if they seem to fit.
- A name must mean the same thing in both facts: a river is not linked to a county, a planet is not linked to a resort. A city and the county that bears its name count as one place. Catalogue pages, guides with prices and projects that hold facts about deaths, bombings or disasters are left out of the game.
- Your streak, points and achievements stay on your device. We receive none of it.
All 194 projects in the game
- 1 November 1928, 5pm — the first broadcast
- 29 questions at America's gate: Romanian emigration to America (1880–1930)
- A drop in the Danube: source to Black Sea in about 32 days
- A Persian in London, 1809-10 — the diary of Mirza Abul Hassan Khan
- A planning agreement closes with a letter
- A Romanian, a ship, and the first Antarctic winter: Racoviță and the Belgica (1897–1899)
- After a Scam, the Order Matters
- All About Eve: a customised self for every gatekeeper
- All the virgin forest Romania has catalogued is smaller than Bucharest
- Atlas of Medical Deserts
- Atlas of Names
- Beyond Dracula's Genealogy: The Strigoi Atlas — Romanian Practice outside Stoker
- Bill the fair, bury the fair — Smithfield, 1133–1855
- Bogdaproste or bodaproste? Meaning and origin of the Romanian alms-thanks
- Can you eyeball a perfect square?
- Carpini and Rubruck: two friars at the Great Khan's court after the 1241 Mongol invasion (1245–1255)
- Celia Fiennes: 1,551 miles across England, 1698
- Chinese medieval explorers: seven journeys from China to India, Baghdad, Paris and Africa (399–1433)
- Chronicles: the settling of Wallachia
- Deacon Coresi: the deacon who printed a language (1557–1583)
- Did Caragiale say it — or a minister? 1852–1912
- Dimitrie Cantemir: the prince who wrote down the Turks' music (1673–1723)
- Dinner on a card
- Dracula: Six Places, Myth vs Record
- Dragonul Roșu: Bucharest's Chinese wholesale city
- Eight in Ten
- Elephants, mammoths and deinotheres in Romania: what was found in your county
- Europe's first writing, dug out of a pit in Transylvania?
- Evliya Çelebi in Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania (1659–1661): what he counted and where he exaggerated
- Fourteen Societies Live Like You
- From Rouen to Antioch: a map of the Norman world, 911–1185
- From χορός to horă: nearly three millennia around a circle
- Hanseatic trade in England: Bergen, the Steelyard, King's Lynn and Boston, c. 1380
- He has been thinking for 7,000 years. We still don't know what about.
- How big is an iugăr? It depends who is measuring
- How did a country end up named after a man? Moldova, Bogdan, Eflak
- How did a fish market become an insult? Shout fish, hurl Billingsgate
- How did our anthem wait 142 years? 1848–1990
- How did the Mircea survive the Biscay storm?
- How does a hailstone get that big? Ride one through the storm
- How high does the water reach where you live?
- How long is a step? A metre and a half, by the Roman standard
- How many airports does Romania have? Map of all 17 (2025)
- How many languages fit in a Romanian market?
- How many pension years will you get? Retirement-age calculator with the years left
- How many people are left in your commune
- How much for a mile? — London hackney coaches, 1654–1832
- How old is your town?
- How rare is your birthday?
- How Romania learned to read: Haret's school, 1899–1930
- How Romania's tourism breathes
- How tall was your great-grandmother?
- How would you have read an 1861 newspaper — The transition alphabet
- Ion Mincu: the Lahovari House and the Romanian Revival
- Is there anyone you could ask for help?
- It took corn puffs 27 years to become “traditional”
- John's Fairies: why the June fairies answer to the Baptist's name
- Marco Polo never mentions the Great Wall. Was he really in China?
- Maria Tănase (1913–1963): life, songs, the ban
- Megalodon: how big the biggest shark really was
- Michael the Brave and the union of 1600: how long it lasted, day by day
- Money, explained
- Nicolae Milescu (Spathari) in China: the Russian embassy to the Kangxi Emperor, 1675–1678
- Nine of Thirteen
- One night sees less than half the month
- One paragraph, 21 British voices
- One word walked here from Persia
- Ovid at Tomis: the poet's exile and the city's memory
- Pe datorie: Romania's public money, 1995–2025
- Prietenul: the one who wishes you well
- Put the market back on the map — Cheapside and ceap, from bargain to bargain-basement
- Rain does not end a drought.
- Romania is moving, one commune at a time
- Romania needs Mangalia for a €920m naval programme. It does not control the shipyard's sale
- Romania vs China Dashboard: Time Gap, Exchange Rate, 10 Indicators, Trade, Distance
- Romania's oldest monasteries are not where you would look for them
- Romania's time: what time was it in Iași at Bucharest noon
- Romanian Pickle Fermentation Lab: brine calculator, Chiojdu timeline, murături × pao cai
- Romania–China ties: dates and documents since 1949
- Run it downhill — the Great Stink and Bazalgette's sewers, 1858–1875
- Rusalii: how roses came to name the Holy Ghost and the fairies
- Scărișoara ice cave: ice at least 10,500 years old
- Second in hives, seventh in concentration
- Smaranda Braescu: homologated record 6,929 m, then a false name
- Ten Hours Fifty to Timișoara
- The 1859 union — How Moldavia and Wallachia united
- The 7 frieze patterns: every repeating border is one of seven, stitch your own
- The ANCPI cyberattack: what is confirmed and what works now
- The Arithmetic of Survival: How Romania’s Parallel Economy Worked in the 1990s
- The Bill from the Sky
- The bison came home
- The bison comeback
- The Black Sea has two floors. Nothing downstairs breathes oxygen
- The book every Romanian touched
- The bridge that taught a country engineering: Cernavodă 1895
- The castle stops at the Carpathians. The conac does not.
- The castle with three lives
- The cave that lives without the sun
- The chalk-cut churches of Basarabi–Murfatlar, in 3D
- The church Gaudí hung from the ceiling
- The churches of Bucharest
- The cold war under the chatbot
- The Crystal Palace — the leaf that held a little girl and the glass house that held over six million people (London, 1851)
- The Danube at Low Water: how one river constrains power, freight and imports
- The dinosaurs of Romania: Hațeg Island, to scale
- The doina — The unwritten song invented on the spot
- The Empty House — 1 in 4 Dwellings Stands Empty
- The first electric city? Timișoara, 12 November 1884
- The frozen Danube at Tulcea, 1836–2016
- The gorge that swallowed an island
- The Great Stink — the summer the Thames became a sewer (London, 1858)
- The hand at the top
- The inns of Bucharest
- The Invisible Architecture of Romania's Sovereign Cloud
- The Latin Island: the Romanian language, from Dacia to Weigand
- The longest locality name in Romania: the complete ranking
- The Longest Night
- The longest river in Romania
- The markets of Bucharest
- The mine waste that buried a village church. Watch it rise, year by year, from space
- The Miorița you never learned in school
- The mountain with four skins
- The night Cuza left: 11 February 1866
- The northern lights have been seen from Romania. How many times since records began?
- The Offer That Knew Too Much
- The oldest city in Romania: Histria or Constanta?
- The Ones Who Never Left
- The only Roman map of Banat strings eleven stations in a row. Not one still goes by its name.
- The plank roads of Bucharest
- The prime meridian: voted in 1884, moved 102.5 metres, and your own noon
- The river under Fleet Street: four maps, one burial
- The same access points. The same 300 m threshold. Two results
- The Sea That Vanished
- The serf named Roman: how the Romanians' name came to mean serf — and back
- The Sphinx and the Babele: Wind or Chisel?
- The storks that leave: how Romania's storks reach Africa
- The Thames frost fairs, 1608–1814, and why the river no longer freezes in London
- The trial that convicted an empire: the 1892 Memorandum
- The Tărtăria tablets: writing or signs?
- The vessel that was supposed to disappear
- The will to gamble: games of chance through history, from knucklebones to slot machines
- The Year That Repeats
- The “Old Man of the Carpathians” is 900 years old in the papers and about 560 by radiocarbon dating. The oldest dated oak in Romania stands 190 kilometres to the north.
- Thousands of starlings, no leader: how they turn as one
- Three mammals live in the Black Sea. The seal is gone
- Trajan’s Bridge at Drobeta, rebuilt in 3D (AD 103–105)
- Trianon 1920: how the border with Hungary was drawn
- Two in Seven — the public holidays that land on a weekend
- Type your town. See where it stands in an earthquake.
- UNESCO counted 277 points along Rome's Dacian frontier. Only a few can be visited, with a ticket.
- Unified Romanian Passenger Rail GTFS Archive
- Vatra
- Wales and Wallachia: one word at two ends of Europe
- Was Dinicu Golescu Greek? 1821, the flight to Brașov, and 7 claims tested
- Was Romania invented in Paris? The treaty of 1856
- What did 102 days of Romanian Budapest cost?
- What Does a Month in Romania Cost? A Budget Simulator
- What does the water at Herculane taste like?
- What does your street's name say? Read London like Old English
- What happened to the golden hen with her chickens? 1837–1956
- What is a soul doing in your chest?
- What Is Still Standing
- What language do you pray in, when you pray in Romanian?
- What Persian gift do you leave the waiter?
- What was the Orient Express doing in Romania? 1883–2009
- What We Know About Ourselves
- What were your hands worth in 1888? A working day in Spitalfields
- When did churches start speaking Romanian?: Câmpulung, 1636
- When did modernity reach your town?
- When Romania Fed England: the Wheat of Brăila, 1843–1852
- When Romania's last volcano erupted, people had already reached this land
- When the file starts telling your story
- When will the sky go dark at noon over your town?
- Where did the Vikings go? 120 sourced places in Europe, 793–1066
- Where does the rain here go? — The path of rain
- Where is Romania's gold? The Moscow treasure, 1916–2024
- Where Romania burned
- Where tap water comes from in Romania’s major cities
- Which mountains you can see from your town: a panorama computed from the terrain for anywhere in Romania
- Who gave the peasants land? 1864
- Who Named Romania
- Who sees, who decides?
- Why Buttered Toast Always Lands Butter-Side Down
- Why did a shepherd walk to Rome? 1849–1911
- Why do we need two breaths?
- Why Is the Black Sea Called the Black Sea?
- Why Romanian calls a church biserică
- Work the morning — London coffeehouses, 1652–1860
- Would you still give this name?
- You say Easter. Most of Europe says pascha.
- You say noroc. You're passing a Slavic sentence.
- Your earlobe doesn’t obey Mendel
- Your plate carries the title of China's emperor
- Your village has been on four different maps
More games on the site
Place of the dayGuess where in Romania you are from the terrain alone. Six tries a day.Where Is It?Ten rounds on the classic county map, with the name given and the pin yours to place.The site quizQuestions from every project, with titles to earn.Did you know?Verified facts from the site’s projects, by topic.