Order the Joaquin Phoenix films by year of release. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
Joaquin Phoenix is the subject, and every card is one of his films, most of them showing the director. Put them in order of release. One film sits on the timeline at the start, its year in view, and each card you draw needs a gap: before, after or between those already placed. Get it right and its year shows; get it wrong and it still lands in its true spot, taking one of your three lives.
He acted as a child, stepped away, and came back with a string of intense dramas and thrillers, along with a famous hoax project, animal-rights documentaries he narrated, and repeat work with a few auteurs. Some directors cast him several times, so linked names can help you pair cards. The narrated documentaries and his smaller films are the ones most likely to throw you.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.





























