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Tallest buildings

Order by architectural height, shortest first. You place all 72 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

Tallest buildings
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Skyscraper
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Skyscraper
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How to play the skyscraper height ranking game

Skyscrapers from around the world are the cards, each with its city printed beneath, and you're ranking them by architectural height in meters, shortest first. One tower starts on the line with its height showing. Decide for each new card whether it stands above or below the buildings already placed. If you're right, the height appears; if you're wrong, it still moves to its true place and you lose one of three lives.

Early classic towers and sleek European headquarters share the line with the supertall giants of recent years. The middle of the deck is very crowded, with many towers at nearly identical heights. Architectural height counts spires but not antennas, so a famous mast won't help a building's case. The city is a better hint about when a tower went up than how tall it is, and a newer tower in an older city can surprise you.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 14 times. An average run places 3.6 cards, and 55% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Shanghai Tower missed 40% of the time, usually by a single place

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 72 cards you might be dealt, with 44 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Wrigley Building Chicago
  • 30 St Mary Axe London
  • Space Needle Seattle
  • Terminal Tower Cleveland
  • Woolworth Building New York
  • Torre de Cristal Madrid
  • Commerzbank Tower Frankfurt
  • Eureka Tower Melbourne
  • Two Prudential Plaza Chicago
  • The Shard London
  • Chrysler Building New York
  • Rose Tower Dubai
  • Mercury City Tower Moscow
  • Aon Center Chicago
  • Bank of America Tower New York
  • Central Plaza Hong Kong
  • Shun Hing Square Shenzhen
  • Al Hamra Tower Kuwait City
  • Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago
  • 432 Park Avenue New York
  • Wuhan Center Wuhan
  • Willis Tower Chicago
  • Petronas Tower 1 Kuala Lumpur
  • Central Park Tower New York
  • Shanghai World Financial Center Shanghai
  • Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre Guangzhou
  • Lotte World Tower Seoul
  • Shanghai Tower Shanghai

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