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Assassinations in history

Order these assassinations by the year they happened. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the assassinations timeline game works

This deck covers famous assassinations, each card named for the person killed, with a short note on who they were and how it happened. You're putting them in order of the year each took place. One card begins on the timeline with its year showing. Choose a gap for every new card among those already down. A hit uncovers the year; if not, the card still lands in its true spot and you lose one of three lives.

It stretches from the ancient world to recent headlines, with emperors, monarchs, presidents, revolutionaries, activists and prime ministers among the cards. A turbulent stretch of the civil rights era brings several killings close together. The same family name can appear more than once, so read the note carefully. Leaders from countries you rarely read about are the hardest to place.

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 30 times. An average run places 6.2 cards, and 68% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Rajiv Gandhi missed 70% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Pancho Villa missed 70% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Anwar Sadat missed 63% of the time, usually by about 2 places

The safest card is Mahatma Gandhi, placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their 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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