The Beatles albums

Order The Beatles studio albums by year of release. You place all 21 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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release years and dates
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How to play the Beatles albums timeline

Every card is a Beatles album, title only, and your task is to sort them by year of release. One album starts on the timeline with its year in view. Each new card goes into the gap where you think it fits. Pick right and you get the year; pick wrong and the album still moves to its true place, costing you one of three lives.

This isn't only the core British run: the American versions of the early records sit here too, along with soundtracks and the odd archival release. That makes the Beatlemania stretch very crowded, with several albums in the same year. The later studio records are easier, though the order the band recorded them in doesn't always match the order they came out.

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.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 40 times. An average run places 9.5 cards, and 77% of all placements land in the right spot. 15% of runs place every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Yesterday and Today missed 70% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • The Decca Tapes missed 52% of the time, usually by about 6 places
  • Beatles VI missed 50% of the time, usually by about 3 places

The safest card is Magical Mystery Tour, placed right 96% of the time.

What's in the deck

Here are 21 of the 21 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Please Please Me
  • With The Beatles
  • A Hard Day’s Night
  • Beatles for Sale
  • Meet The Beatles!
  • Introducing… The Beatles
  • The Beatles’ Second Album
  • Something New
  • Twist and Shout
  • Help!
  • Rubber Soul
  • Beatles VI
  • Revolver
  • Yesterday and Today
  • Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • The Beatles
  • Abbey Road
  • Yellow Submarine
  • Let It Be
  • The Decca Tapes

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