Board games

Order by the year each game was published. Place all 60 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

Board games
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Order by the year each game was published. Drag or tap it onto the line
Tabletop
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Tabletop
60
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
Card reveal

How Board games 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 60 cards you could be dealt, plus 32 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Backgammon (Hoyle's rules) Ancient origins
  • The Landlord's Game Elizabeth Magie
  • Sorry! Parker Brothers
  • Scrabble Alfred Butts
  • Clue Anthony E. Pratt
  • Risk Albert Lamorisse
  • The Game of Life Milton Bradley
  • Operation Milton Bradley
  • Twister Milton Bradley
  • Uno Merle Robbins
  • Connect Four Milton Bradley
  • Axis & Allies Larry Harris
  • Jenga Leslie Scott
  • Magic: The Gathering Richard Garfield
  • Carcassonne Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
  • Puerto Rico Andreas Seyfarth
  • Power Grid Friedemann Friese
  • Twilight Struggle Gupta & Matthews
  • Dominion Donald X. Vaccarino
  • Small World Philippe Keyaerts
  • Cards Against Humanity Temkin et al.
  • Splendor Marc André
  • Exploding Kittens Inman, Lee & Small
  • Secret Hitler Boxleiter, Maranges & Temkin
  • Azul Michael Kiesling
  • Brass: Birmingham Wallace, Brown & Tolman
  • Root Cole Wehrle
  • Wingspan Elizabeth Hargrave

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