Order the R.E.M. 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 an R.E.M. album, title only, and you sort them by the year they were released. One album starts on the timeline, its year in view. Each new card goes into a gap you choose. Right picks reveal the year; wrong picks still move the album to its true position and cost you one of three lives.
The band released a record nearly every year in its jangly college-rock days, so the early stretch is tightly packed and hard to order. The commercial peak follows, then the years after their drummer left, when the sound grew quieter and more electronic. A live recording sits among the studio albums as well, so not every title is what it seems.
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.


