Order the books Ernest Hemingway wrote by the year each was first published. You place all 32 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
Each card is an Ernest Hemingway book or story, title only, and you sort them by year of first publication. One title starts on the timeline with its year in view. Every later card goes before, between or after what's already placed. The right gap shows you the year; a wrong call sends the card to its real place and costs you one of your three lives.
Many cards are short stories, and they cluster tightly, often several in a year. The novels and nonfiction are more spread out, and books published after his death push the deck well past his lifetime. A story you read in a collection may have appeared in a magazine first.
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.
Here are 28 of the 32 cards you might be dealt, with 4 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.



































