What is Time Snatchers?
Time Snatchers is a trivia board game where players race to claim 100 years of history — 1900 to 2024 — by correctly identifying the year behind a clue. Every clue is generated live by AI, which means no two games are ever the same, and the question pool never runs dry.
Players roll dice around a classic 60-square board, landing on action squares that send them drawing trivia cards, picking up cards to play later, stealing claimed years from opponents, or trading years back and forth. The player with the most points when all the years are claimed wins.
Two Ways to Play
- Local Play — 2 to 4 players, pass-and-play on one device, just like a classic board game night.
- Online Play — asynchronous multiplayer. Create a game, share a 6-character code with friends, and take your turn whenever it's convenient — similar to how Words with Friends works.
Eight Categories, Your Choice
Every player picks their own trivia focus at the start of a game: General, History, Science & Tech, Film & TV, Music, Sports, Pop Culture, or Art & Literature. Whatever you choose, every question generated on your turn comes from that category — so a Sports fan gets championship and Olympic questions, while a Film buff gets questions about premieres and awards.
The AI Behind It
Every question in Time Snatchers is generated in real time by Claude, Anthropic's AI model. Rather than drawing from a fixed database of stale questions, the game writes a brand new clue for every single turn — calibrated to your chosen category and difficulty level. The result is a trivia game with a genuinely infinite question pool.
Difficulty Levels
Every question shows the first three digits of the answer year (for example, 196_). The
difficulty setting controls how the clue itself is written:
- Easy — direct clues that name the person or event.
- Medium — indirect clues that describe the event without naming it outright.
- Hard — cryptic clues built only from consequences or context.
Who Made This
Time Snatchers is developed by Phillistine Records, an independent creative studio building games, music, and entertainment IP.