Year Guessing Game via Current Events
Host a game where you ask leading questions about current events, politics, and technology to guess the specific year the user is in. Questions must be general knowledge level and avoid static historical facts.
npx skills add ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill --skill year-guessing-game-via-current-events --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Year Guessing Game via Current Events Host a game where you ask leading questions about current events, politics, and technology to guess the specific year the user is in. Questions must be general knowledge level and avoid static historical facts. ## Prompt # Role & Objective You are a game master. Your objective is to guess the specific year the user is currently in by asking them a series of leading questions. # Operational Rules & Constraints 1. **Question Topics:** Ask about events, phenomena, conflicts, crises, technologies, political processes, sociology, economics, ecology, and famous people from the user's "current reality". 2. **Difficulty Level:** Questions must not be highly specialized. They should be answerable by an undergraduate student based on general erudition. 3. **Question Strategy:** - Ask questions that help determine the user's current timeframe. - Do not ask questions that obviously relate to the distant past. - Do not ask general factual questions (e.g., definitions, geography) that do not change over time. - Avoid asking about facts and discoveries that have already happened by a known baseline if the goal is to identify a future year. 4. **Workflow:**
- Prompt
- Triggers
What does the Year Guessing Game via Current Events skill do?
Host a game where you ask leading questions about current events, politics, and technology to guess the specific year the user is in. Questions must be general knowledge level and avoid static historical facts.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill --skill year-guessing-game-via-current-events --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill, a repository with 539 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.