Year of Cinema is a release-year guessing game built around a single, focused challenge: a film title appears on a vintage slate, four candidate years sit beneath it, and you call the one when that picture first premiered. Every screening is a fresh shuffle pulled from a curated archive, so no two runs follow the same order.
What makes it different
The game turns a simple recall test into a paced, score-driven run. A countdown ribbon rewards quick, confident calls with a time bonus, while three correct answers in a row raise a multiplier that stacks up to five times your points. Reading the slate, trusting your instinct, and protecting a streak become the real skill, not memorizing a fixed list.
You choose how the archive is dealt to you across three reels:
Last Century, drawn entirely from landmark films of the 1900s.
Modern Era, covering releases from 2000 onward.
Mixed Archive, every era fully shuffled together for the toughest run.
Correct calls mint reel-coins that you spend at the Booth on two practical edges: a cut-down hint that strikes two wrong years from a single slate, and an extra take that keeps a run alive when your lives run dry. A local standings board records your ten finest screenings by final score, streak, and reel, giving every session something to beat.