How the daily puzzle works

Every day at midnight Eastern Time, a new set of ten artifacts is chosen from our curated Met Open Access pool (1,663 objects). Everyone who plays that day sees the same ten rounds.

Selection

• A deterministic seed from the calendar date picks ten artifacts so the set is stable for the whole day.
• Sets aim for variety across Met departments and world regions when possible.
• Artifacts that appeared in recent daily puzzles are deprioritized for variety.

Scoring

Each round scores up to 5,000 points for map location and 5,000 for era accuracy. You choose a 250-year block on the timeline — overlap with the correct period earns the highest time score.

After you play

The recap screen shows where each object was made, your guess vs the correct range, and links to learn more on The Met website. Past sets stay in the archive.

Puzzle day boundary: America/New_York (US Eastern).