Red Hot Chili Peppers Timeline Games

Four Chili Peppers records are here, all from their long run with Rick Rubin producing: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By the Way and Stadium Arcadium. Each deck is one album, and you rebuild its running order song by song. They are long records: Californication has fifteen cards, By the Way sixteen, Blood Sugar seventeen, and Stadium Arcadium a hefty twenty-eight. Put a track in the wrong spot and you lose a life.

Californication is the friendliest start, with its big singles spread across the record as anchors. By the Way rewards anyone who knows its melodic deep cuts. Stadium Arcadium is a two-disc marathon, and keeping twenty-eight songs straight means remembering which half each one lives on, not just where it falls.