Famous births
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Famous births
Order by year of birth. Place all 70 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.
70
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How Famous births 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 70 cards you could be dealt, plus 42 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.
- Leonardo da Vinci Painter and inventor
- Galileo Galilei Astronomer
- Johann Sebastian Bach Composer
- Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French
- Abraham Lincoln US president
- Karl Marx Philosopher
- Mark Twain Writer
- Vincent van Gogh Painter
- Marie Curie Physicist and chemist
- Winston Churchill Prime minister
- Franklin D. Roosevelt US president
- Charlie Chaplin Filmmaker
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Walt Disney Animator
- Alan Turing Mathematician
- Rosa Parks Civil rights activist
- Anne Frank Diarist
- Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights leader
- Jimi Hendrix Guitarist
- Stephen Hawking Physicist
- Stephen King Novelist
- Bill Gates Entrepreneur
- Michael Jackson Singer
- Diana, Princess of Wales Royal
- Tupac Shakur Rapper
- Serena Williams Tennis player
- Lionel Messi Footballer
- Zendaya Actor
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