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Order by year of original release. You place all 399 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
399
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3
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release years and dates
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How to play the albums timeline game
This is the big one: hundreds of albums, each card showing the record's title with the artist printed underneath, and you sort them by the year each was first released. One album sits on the timeline at the start with its year in view. Every new card goes into a gap, before, between or after what's already down. A good placement reveals the year and the card stays put; a bad one sends it to its real spot anyway and costs you one of your three lives.
The range is wide, from vocal jazz and early rock records through punk, synth-pop, grunge, hip-hop and indie to the streaming era. With a deck this size, most runs will turn up artists you know well and plenty you only half know. The artist's name is the best clue you have, but careers are long, so knowing who made a record only gets you close. Records that still sound current, and veterans who kept releasing well into later life, fool people most.
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 1,095 times. An average run places 7.2 cards, and 70% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Time Out of Mind missed 77% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- Promises missed 76% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- The Foundation missed 74% of the time, usually by about 2 places
The safest card is Let It Be, placed right 97% of the time.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 399 cards you might be dealt, with 371 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book Ella Fitzgerald
- Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
- The Beatles (White Album) The Beatles
- There's a Riot Goin' On Sly and the Family Stone
- Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin
- London Calling The Clash
- Synchronicity The Police
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy
- Ten Pearl Jam
- Weezer (Blue Album) Weezer
- Aquemini OutKast
- Is This It The Strokes
- Silent Alarm Bloc Party
- Brothers The Black Keys
- Modern Vampires of the City Vampire Weekend
- A Seat at the Table Solange
- Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana Del Rey
- Ants from Up There Black Country, New Road
- Bright Future Adrianne Lenker
- Abraxas Santana
- Hysteria Def Leppard
- Toxicity System of a Down
- Doggystyle Snoop Doggy Dogg
- Confessions Usher
- Hot Fuss The Killers
- A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships The 1975
- Sunday at the Village Vanguard Bill Evans
- The Colour and the Shape Foo Fighters
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