Order the books Haruki Murakami 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.
The cards are Haruki Murakami novels, stories and nonfiction, title only, and you order them by the year each was first published. One title opens the timeline with its year showing. After that, you decide where every new card lands. Land it and the year appears; pick wrong and the card moves to its true spot, costing one of three lives.
Many of the cards are short stories, which often appeared in Japanese long before English readers saw them in a collection, so the dates may surprise you. His novels are spread across his career, but the stories crowd certain stretches. The same surreal, lonely mood runs through everything, so tone won't help you place a title.
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.



































