Timeliner: Halloween Movies

Watch a horror trailer. Guess the year. Build your timeline.

You watch a trailer with everyone else and decide where that film sits on your timeline. Earlier than this one, later than that one. Nobody tells you the year, so you are going on the grain, the make-up and how the blood looks.

The trailers run from silent gothics to last autumn's frights. They are horror, and they do not hold back.

Anyone can challenge a placement they think is wrong. Win the challenge and you take the card. Name the film outright and you earn a star.

  • 1–8 players
  • About 15 minutes
  • 16+
  • Free
  • No download
Inside a Halloween cinema: a trailer plays on the screen between velvet curtains and pumpkin sconces, while a filmstrip of horror stills runs below it

How each way works

Friends playing Timeliner: Halloween Movies on a television they can all see, each with a phone

Play with a group in your room

A TV, laptop or tablet — a phone each

Open the board on the television, laptop or tablet everyone can see, and turn the lights off. The trailers play there, big and loud, while each player places films and fires off challenges from their own phone. One screen for the show, one in every hand.

Open the board
People in different cities playing Timeliner: Halloween Movies with strangers on their own screens

Play live online with people worldwide

Your own phone, tablet or laptop — anywhere in the world

Sit down at a public table with people you have never met. Each of you plays on your own phone, tablet or laptop, anywhere in the world, and the trailer starts on every screen at the same moment.

Start a table
Friends gathered around one tablet playing Timeliner: Halloween Movies

On one device

One phone, tablet or laptop

Open the game on a phone, tablet or laptop. Play on your own, or take turns placing films on the same screen. No extra devices, no account — lights off optional.

Play on this screen

How to play

  1. Everyone watches the same horror trailer.
  2. On your turn, slot the film into your timeline between the films you already have.
  3. Get it right and it stays. Get it wrong and it goes.
  4. Anyone can challenge a placement. Win the challenge and you take the card.
  5. Name the film for a bonus star. First to fill their timeline wins.

Questions

Is Timeliner: Halloween Movies free to play?

Yes, and there is nothing to buy later. Timeliner: Halloween Movies runs in your browser: no download, no app store, no payment.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Open the link and play. It works on a phone, a tablet, a laptop and any television with a browser, and everyone at a table can be on a different kind of device.

What does “Play with a group in your room” mean?

Open the board on the television, laptop or tablet everyone can see, and turn the lights off. The trailers play there, big and loud, while each player places films and fires off challenges from their own phone. One screen for the show, one in every hand.

What does “Play live online with people worldwide” mean?

Sit down at a public table with people you have never met. Each of you plays on your own phone, tablet or laptop, anywhere in the world, and the trailer starts on every screen at the same moment.

What does “On one device” mean?

Open the game on a phone, tablet or laptop. Play on your own, or take turns placing films on the same screen. No extra devices, no account — lights off optional.

How many people can play?

1–8 players. Play around one shared screen, or fill a table with up to 8 people — in the same room or live online.

How long does a game take?

About 15 minutes. First to ten cards on the timeline wins — everyone starts with one already placed.

Do I need an account?

Only if you want to start a game for other people to join. Playing on one shared screen works without one, and so does joining a game a friend started — you just choose a name.

Ready when your friends are.

No download, no app. Timeliner: Halloween Movies opens in the browser they already have.

Start playing