Just enter your best guess below for the year when you think the event happened. The aim of the game is to answer 10 questions with the highest score! This game is different from About Time⢠the board game.
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Chinese Communist Party chairman and founder of the Peoples Republic, Mao Zedong, dies.
Heroes and Villains
26 August
1985 Controversial South African-born athlete Zola Budd breaks the world 5,000m record.
27 August
1979 Lord Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, is killed by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland.
28 August
1994 Shops in England and Wales open legally on Sunday for the first time.
29 August
2005 Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, cutting power and flooding homes.
30 August
1976 More than 100 police officers are taken to hospital after clashes at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.
31 August
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, and her boyfriend Dodi al-Fayed are killed after their car crashes in a Paris underpass.
01 September
1939 German forces attack Poland across all frontiers and its planes bomb Warsaw.
Reviewers on premier board game website www.boardgamegeek.com have given About Time™ an overall rating of 7.5 - higher than all the household name board games!
Boardgamegeek RatingAbout Time™ is a thrilling board game that invites players to test their general knowledge, lateral thinking and poker-style cunning as it takes them on a journey through time.
Players compete to win the most tokens before the end of the game by guessing CLOSEST to the year of an iconic event. There are no wrong answers as you only have to get closer than the other players!
Like history itself, the About Time™ board game is littered with pitfalls and surprises. You can catch the Plague, be held up by a Highwayman or be challenged to a Duel and see your fortunes rise and fall.