Michael Jackson Timeline Games

Four of Michael Jackson's solo albums are here, each as its own deck: Off the Wall, Thriller, Bad and Dangerous. Every card is a song, and the job is to rebuild the album's running order from the opener to the closing track. Thriller is the shortest at nine cards, while Dangerous stretches to fourteen. You place one song at a time, and a wrong slot costs a life.

Thriller is the obvious place to begin, since most listeners know its singles cold, though knowing the hits is not the same as knowing where they sit. Off the Wall and Bad reward people who played the records start to finish. Dangerous is the deep end: a long, dense album where the middle stretch is easy to scramble.