🇸🇪 Sweden · Sverige
From Viking-age Birka to the sinking of the Vasa, the Stockholm Bloodbath to the Ericsson boom — Swedish history is dense with moments that locals recognise instantly and everyone else has to reason out. Drop into the scene, place it on the map, and guess the year.
Sweden's collection needs 1 more round before it opens. These are live today.
Sweden reads as low horizons, water everywhere and a very sudden jump from timber to modernism. Almost nothing in a Swedish scene is monumental until the 17th century, when the empire years pour Baroque stone into Stockholm and then stop just as abruptly.
Architecture
Falu-red timber with white corners means countryside and almost any century; plastered ochre and pale-yellow blocks with green copper roofs put you in Stockholm or Gothenburg after 1650. Post-war concrete slabs in long rows are Miljonprogrammet — 1965 to 1974, almost to the year.
Landscape
Granite outcrops, birch and pine, and a shoreline that never quite settles into either sea or lake. If the water is threaded with low rocky islands, you are in the Stockholm or Gothenburg archipelago rather than the Baltic coast proper.
Period tells
Rune stones and grave fields point to 800–1100. Onion-domed church towers appear after the 1600s. Right-hand traffic only starts in September 1967 — a street scene with cars on the left is Sweden before Dagen H.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Swedes can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Björkö, Lake MälarenMedieval
Sweden's first town, a Viking-age hub trading furs and silver with Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate.
Stortorget, Gamla stanEarly modern
Christian II executed around 80 Swedish nobles in the main square — the spark for Gustav Vasa's revolt.
Stockholm harbourEarly modern
The royal warship sank 1,300 metres into her maiden voyage and was raised, nearly intact, in 1961.
Poltava (Swedish Empire campaign)Early modern
Karl XII's defeat ended Sweden's run as a great power and reshaped northern Europe.
Sveavägen, StockholmModern era
The prime minister was shot walking home from the cinema — still Sweden's most infamous unsolved case.
Swedish history touches medieval & renaissance, exploration & revolution and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own — 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 Sweden.
Medieval & Renaissance
Swedish moments here: Birka trading town at its height (900), The Stockholm Bloodbath (1520).
Exploration & revolution
Swedish moments here: The Vasa capsizes (1628), Battle of Poltava (1709).
20th century
Swedish moment here: Assassination of Olof Palme (1986).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath — cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.Birka trading town at its height — what year?
Answer900
Sweden's first town, a Viking-age hub trading furs and silver with Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate.
2.The Stockholm Bloodbath — what year?
Answer1520
Christian II executed around 80 Swedish nobles in the main square — the spark for Gustav Vasa's revolt.
3.The Vasa capsizes — what year?
Answer1628
The royal warship sank 1,300 metres into her maiden voyage and was raised, nearly intact, in 1961.
4.Battle of Poltava — what year?
Answer1709
Karl XII's defeat ended Sweden's run as a great power and reshaped northern Europe.
5.Assassination of Olof Palme — what year?
Answer1986
The prime minister was shot walking home from the cinema — still Sweden's most infamous unsolved case.
6.Which came first in Sweden — Birka trading town at its height or the Stockholm Bloodbath?
AnswerBirka trading town at its height, in 900.
The Stockholm Bloodbath follows in 1520, 620 years later.
7.Which came first in Sweden — the Vasa capsizes or Battle of Poltava?
AnswerThe Vasa capsizes, in 1628.
Battle of Poltava follows in 1709, 81 years later.
8.Where in Sweden would you drop the pin for Birka trading town at its height?
AnswerBjörkö, Lake Mälaren
Sweden's first town, a Viking-age hub trading furs and silver with Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate.
9.Where in Sweden would you drop the pin for the Stockholm Bloodbath?
AnswerStortorget, Gamla stan
Christian II executed around 80 Swedish nobles in the main square — the spark for Gustav Vasa's revolt.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Swedish moments in this collection?
Answer1,086 years
From Birka trading town at its height in 900 to Assassination of Olof Palme in 1986.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment — "Birka trading town at its height, Björkö, Lake Mälaren" — and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360° scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough — 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 360° panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
🇸🇪 Put your own scene on /play/sweden
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 — you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Swedes want to see in the game. Vote them up — the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360° scene from Sweden's past. Look around for clues — architecture, clothing, technology, landscape — 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 Swedish 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 900 to 1986 — from birka trading town at its height through to assassination of olof palme. 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 — that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Swedes would recognise instantly, like birka trading town at its height. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360° rounds and credited on the page.
There are currently 2 playable Swedish rounds, shuffled so each game is different. The pool grows every time a community suggestion is built.
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