Order the books Michael Crichton 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.
Every card is a Michael Crichton book, just the title, and you order them by year of first publication. A single book is down at the start, year showing. You place each new card in a gap before, between or after the books already down. A correct read uncovers the year; a wrong guess sends the book to its real spot and takes one of three lives.
Before the techno-thrillers made him famous, Crichton wrote a string of paperback thrillers under pen names while he was in medical school, and they crowd the early stretch. The deck also includes nonfiction and posthumous novels. The famous blockbusters are spread out, so the pen-name books and lesser-known titles are where you'll lose lives.
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.



































