How to play

Get from one life to the other through people who were alive at the same time.

• Name anyone whose life overlaps either end of your chain.
• Someone who lived inside the gap stays on the board, to be linked up later.
• Close the gap from both sides. Every guess counts toward your score. Par is what a good player needs: more for obscure stretches and narrow rules.
• You get par + 3 misses (4 at par 1, 10 at par 7). Islands and detours don't count as misses.

A new puzzle every day, harder as the week goes on. Two people link if they were both alive in the same year: born in 1882, the year the other died, counts. Only the part of a life we can be sure of counts: if a birth is given as c. 70 BC, the overlap is judged as if it could be a few years later.

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