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Order by year of birth. You place all 70 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
70
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3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the famous births timeline game works
You're sorting famous people by the year they were born. Each card gives a name and, underneath it, what that person was known for: composer, physicist, singer, footballer and so on. One person starts on the timeline with their birth year in view. Pick a gap for every new card, before, between or after the people already there. Land it right and the year shows; miss and the person still goes to their true place, costing you one of your three lives.
Painters and astronomers share this deck with presidents, rock stars, athletes and today's pop names, so it sweeps from the Renaissance to the present. The modern end is packed, and people who feel like they belong to different eras were often born surprisingly close together. Anyone famous for what they did late in life is a trap, because your mental picture of them is older than their birthday. Those who found fame very young fool you the other way.
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 168 times. An average run places 9.3 cards, and 76% of all placements land in the right spot. Only 2 runs have ever placed every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Julia Child missed 59% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- Maya Angelou missed 56% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Agatha Christie missed 53% of the time, usually by about 3 places
The safest card is Quentin Tarantino, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 70 cards you might be dealt, with 42 more in the deck. Their 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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