Order the Depeche Mode studio albums by year of release. You place all 16 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
Each card is a Depeche Mode album, just the title, and you're sorting them by release year. One album opens the timeline with its year showing. Read each new card and place it in a gap among those already down. Right guesses reveal the year; wrong ones still send the album to its rightful spot and take one of your three lives.
The band started as bright synth-pop, then grew darker and more industrial, and later leaned on guitars and blues. In the early years they released an album almost every year, so the first stretch is tightly packed. The later albums come at longer, more even intervals and sound alike, which makes them just as hard to order.
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 16 of the 16 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.


