Order the Prince studio albums by year of release. You place all 32 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
Each card is a Prince album, just the title, and you put them in order of release. An album is placed for you first, with its year showing. Each new card goes into a gap you choose. Right gaps reveal the year; wrong gaps still move the album to its true spot and cost you one of three lives.
Prince was famously prolific, and from the middle of his career he was releasing albums almost every year, sometimes more than one. The deck covers the Minneapolis funk records, the blockbuster years, the name-change era and the later independent releases, plus posthumous albums from the vault. The independent stretch is where most runs come apart, because few people know its 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 28 of the 32 cards you might be dealt, with 4 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.