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Five-round scorecard and error log

A five-round record sheet that turns a game session into data. Students log the year they guessed, the year the game revealed, the size of the gap and how far off the pin was. The final column asks which single clue would have closed the gap — which is the question the plenary should spend its time on.

Any level · ages 11+20–45 minutesA4 & US Letter

Play today's five rounds

How to run it

1Give one sheet per pair so both students have to agree a number before it is written down.
2Fill the 'year gap' column in signed form (+40, −120) — direction of error is more interesting than size.
3Collect the class's biggest gap per round and plot it on the board; older periods almost always score worse.
4Finish on the last column: name the clue that would have fixed it. That sentence is the learning.

Free to photocopy for your classes. Keep the footer credit and use it as often as you like.

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Five-round scorecard and error log

Agree a number before you write it. Record the gap with its direction: + means you guessed too late.

HistoryGuesser

Name

Class

Date

Round	Scene (what it was)	Our year	Actual year	Gap (+/−)	Distance	Points
1
2
3
4
5
Total

Write the gap with its direction: +40 means you guessed forty years too late, −120 means too early. Direction of error is more revealing than its size.

Error log

The round you got most wrong

RoundWe guessedIt was

Which single clue in the scene would have closed that gap, and why did we read it wrongly?

Pattern check

Whole class, at the end

Our best period

Why do we read this era well?

Our worst period

Fewer surviving details, slower visible change, or simply less familiar?

Next time

One sentence, agreed by the pair

The first thing we will look at in the next scene, before anything else:

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