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Assassinations in history

Order these assassinations by the year they happened. Place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How Assassinations in history is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 28 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Caligula Roman emperor cut down by his own guards
  • Thomas Becket Archbishop slain in Canterbury Cathedral
  • Henry IV of France King stabbed by Francois Ravaillac
  • Spencer Perceval Only British prime minister assassinated
  • Abraham Lincoln U.S. president shot by John Wilkes Booth
  • Alexander II of Russia Tsar killed by a bomb in the capital
  • James A. Garfield U.S. president shot by Charles Guiteau
  • Sadi Carnot French president stabbed by an anarchist
  • William McKinley U.S. president shot at a Buffalo fair
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Killing in Sarajevo sparked World War I
  • Grigori Rasputin Mystic murdered by Russian nobles
  • Pancho Villa Mexican revolutionary gunned down
  • Leon Trotsky Exiled Bolshevik struck with an ice axe
  • Mahatma Gandhi Indian leader shot by Nathuram Godse
  • Medgar Evers Civil rights leader shot in Mississippi
  • John F. Kennedy U.S. president shot in Dallas
  • Malcolm X Activist shot in a Harlem ballroom
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights leader shot in Memphis
  • Robert F. Kennedy Senator shot in Los Angeles
  • Anwar Sadat Egyptian president killed at a parade
  • Indira Gandhi Indian premier shot by her guards
  • Olof Palme Swedish prime minister shot in Stockholm
  • Rajiv Gandhi Former Indian premier killed by a bomber
  • Yitzhak Rabin Israeli premier shot at a peace rally
  • Benazir Bhutto Pakistani leader killed at a rally
  • Boris Nemtsov Russian opposition figure shot near the Kremlin
  • Jovenel Moise Haitian president killed in his home
  • Shinzo Abe Former Japanese premier shot while speaking

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