Anthropeum

A new daily game called Anthropeum is serving up ten mystery artifacts a day and asking players to do two terrifyingly simple-sounding things: guess where in the world each object came from and when it was made. The artifacts come from the Met’s huge museum collection, and your final score gets stacked against everyone else who played that day — which means this is not just a cozy history game, it’s now a public stage for bragging rights, humiliation, and some extremely online self-reporting.

And yes, the comments instantly became the real museum exhibit. One camp was full-on enchanted, with one player declaring it "much more interesting visuals than Geoguessr," basically firing the opening shot in a tiny but spicy history-game rivalry. Another admitted the game was so hard it sent them crawling back to rival title Timeguessr, where they felt safer. That’s the closest thing to drama here: Is Anthropeum the classy new obsession, or the game that exposes how little you know about ancient stuff?

The funniest reactions were also the most relatable. One player strutted in with a score around 25,000 and a proud "top player" flex, only to immediately confess they were shaky on the timeline part. Others skipped the ego entirely and went straight to emotional honesty: "I did really badly" and "this is fun" pretty much sum up the entire mood. In other words, Anthropeum has achieved a rare internet feat: it made people feel smart, humbled, competitive, and entertained all at once.