๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia ยท แแแแแปแแถ (Kรขmpuchรฉa)
For four centuries the Khmer empire built the largest pre-industrial city on earth, watered by a reservoir system visible from orbit. Cambodian scenes are sandstone, laterite and water โ and the faces on the towers date them precisely.
Cambodia's collection needs 3 more rounds before it opens. These are live today.
Cambodia is flat: the Mekong, the Tonlรฉ Sap lake that reverses direction every monsoon, and rice plain in every direction. Its monumental architecture is sandstone over laterite, and it is all concentrated in one 400 kmยฒ zone north of the lake.
Architecture
Corncob-profile towers (prasat) in sandstone over rust-red laterite are Khmer, 900โ1200. Faces on the tower faces mean the Bayon style, around 1200 and no other period. Yellow-and-white French colonial shophouses with shutters are 1890โ1950; New Khmer Architecture โ angular concrete with breeze blocks โ is 1955โ1970.
Landscape
A vast shallow lake with stilted or floating villages is the Tonlรฉ Sap. Sugar palms standing alone over paddy is the classic Cambodian plain. Silk-cotton tree roots growing over stone is Ta Prohm, deliberately left that way since the 1920s.
Period tells
Reliefs showing Hindu epics point earlier than 1200; Buddhist imagery, later. Bullet-scarred concrete and empty buildings in Phnom Penh are 1975โ1979. Restoration scaffolding at Angkor is post-1993, after the temples reopened.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Cambodians can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Angkor, Siem ReapMedieval
A temple-mountain to Vishnu, west-facing and moated, with 600 metres of bas-relief around the third enclosure.
Angkor ThomMedieval
Jayavarman VII's Buddhist capital, with more than 200 serene stone faces looking out from 54 towers.
AngkorMedieval
After an Ayutthayan siege the court moved south towards the Mekong, and the reservoirs silted up behind it.
Angkor, under forestThe long 19th century
A French naturalist's journals put Angkor on the European map โ the monks living there had never lost it.
Phnom PenhModern era
The capital was emptied within days; Year Zero began with two million people walking out of the city.
Cambodian history touches medieval & renaissance, 19th century and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own โ the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Cambodia.
Medieval & Renaissance
Cambodian moments here: Angkor Wat completed (1150), The Bayon's faces carved (1200), Angkor abandoned as a capital (1431).
19th century
Cambodian moment here: Henri Mouhot's account published (1860).
20th century
Cambodian moment here: The Khmer Rouge enter Phnom Penh (1975).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath โ cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.Angkor Wat completed โ what year?
Answer1150
A temple-mountain to Vishnu, west-facing and moated, with 600 metres of bas-relief around the third enclosure.
2.The Bayon's faces carved โ what year?
Answer1200
Jayavarman VII's Buddhist capital, with more than 200 serene stone faces looking out from 54 towers.
3.Angkor abandoned as a capital โ what year?
Answer1431
After an Ayutthayan siege the court moved south towards the Mekong, and the reservoirs silted up behind it.
4.Henri Mouhot's account published โ what year?
Answer1860
A French naturalist's journals put Angkor on the European map โ the monks living there had never lost it.
5.The Khmer Rouge enter Phnom Penh โ what year?
Answer1975
The capital was emptied within days; Year Zero began with two million people walking out of the city.
6.Which came first in Cambodia โ Angkor Wat completed or the Bayon's faces carved?
AnswerAngkor Wat completed, in 1150.
The Bayon's faces carved follows in 1200, 50 years later.
7.Which came first in Cambodia โ Angkor abandoned as a capital or Henri Mouhot's account published?
AnswerAngkor abandoned as a capital, in 1431.
Henri Mouhot's account published follows in 1860, 429 years later.
8.Where in Cambodia would you drop the pin for Angkor Wat completed?
AnswerAngkor, Siem Reap
A temple-mountain to Vishnu, west-facing and moated, with 600 metres of bas-relief around the third enclosure.
9.Where in Cambodia would you drop the pin for the Bayon's faces carved?
AnswerAngkor Thom
Jayavarman VII's Buddhist capital, with more than 200 serene stone faces looking out from 54 towers.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Cambodian moments in this collection?
Answer825 years
From Angkor Wat completed in 1150 to the Khmer Rouge enter Phnom Penh in 1975.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment โ "Angkor Wat completed, Angkor, Siem Reap" โ and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360ยฐ scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough โ an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
A 4K 360ยฐ panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
๐ฐ๐ญ Put your own scene on /play/cambodia
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours โ you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Cambodians want to see in the game. Vote them up โ the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360ยฐ scene from Cambodia's past. Look around for clues โ architecture, clothing, technology, landscape โ then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
No. You can play Cambodian rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
The collection spans 1150 to 1975 โ from angkor wat completed through to the khmer rouge enter phnom penh. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Yes โ that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Cambodians would recognise instantly, like angkor wat completed. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360ยฐ rounds and credited on the page.
Daily Challenge
Five fresh rounds every day, same for everyone.
History quizzes
Short quizzes across eras, empires and events.
Community maps
Panorama collections built by other players.
All game modes
Every free history game on the site, in one list.