The archive is a way to revisit real daily boards that Footbillion has saved. It is not a date picker that invents a historical challenge whenever you request one. That distinction matters when you open the list and find fewer dates—or fewer questions on a date—than you expected.
Only past UTC days are eligible. Today's board and future dates cannot be replayed through the archive. The list contains up to 60 saved past days, so a newly launched site may have little history or none at all. An empty list is an honest description of what exists.
What a saved day preserves
A daily board is stored as a snapshot. When you replay an available past day, the remaining questions keep their saved wording, order, eligibility and values. The archive does not redraw that day from the latest question bank and pretend it is the same match.
This makes it useful for returning to a particular set of prompts. It does not turn the replay into another ranked attempt. Archive scores are independent of the daily leaderboard, and guests can use the mode without an account.
If you are deciding between modes, which mode to play first explains their different purposes. Archive is most interesting when a real past date is meaningful to you, rather than simply because you want another random practice board.
Why some questions are held back
An old board can contain a question that also appears in today's daily challenge. The archive withholds that question while it overlaps the current daily selection. The date list therefore reports how many questions are available out of the stored total.
Imagine a saved seven-question day with five currently available prompts. You replay those five, in their preserved relative order, rather than receiving two newly invented replacements. Its achievable maximum reflects the questions actually included. A day with no available prompts cannot start.
The reason is the same principle behind keeping other answers hidden in daily reveals: an unranked learning path should not provide a preview of the protected daily board.
What happens during a replay
Archive questions use the game's timed answer flow. Read the exact prompt, submit an eligible answer, and move through the available set. Unlike ordinary practice, the extra modes keep the full answer review until the complete game. You can inspect the accepted answers and sources once the archive match is finished.
The clock is not suspended because the material is historical. If you want to study slowly, finish the game and use the review rather than leaving an active question open while you research it.
A match that crosses the UTC reset is checked against the new daily board. If its questions now overlap that board, the server can refuse the old match and ask you to start again. That protects the new day even when a replay began earlier.
Compare with care
A replay can be enjoyable without being a clean measurement of improvement. You may remember the old questions, and held-back prompts may change the set. Comparing archive results against yourself shows how to record those caveats instead of overlooking them.
Record the date, the available question count and any maximum shown with your score. Those details explain much more than an isolated total. If the archive has no suitable date, ordinary practice remains available; there is no need to infer that a missing date can be recovered by repeatedly refreshing.
Open the archive to see the actual past days currently available and choose a replay on its own terms.
