Breakfast cereals debuts

Order these breakfast cereals by the year each was introduced. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Breakfast cereals debuts
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Order these breakfast cereals by the year each was introduced. Drag or tap it onto the line
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release years and dates
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How to play the breakfast cereal timeline game

Breakfast cereals fill the bowl here, each card with a short description printed below that often names the company behind it. You're ordering them by the year each cereal was introduced. One cereal starts on the timeline with its year showing. Pour each new card into the gap where you think it belongs. A clean placement reveals the year; a wrong guess still sets it in its true spot and costs you one of three lives.

Plain health-food flakes and biscuits, sugary favorites with cartoon mascots and later spin-offs all share the line. The sweetened cereals arrive in a rush, with the same few companies launching many of them close together. Renamed cereals are a trap, and so are spin-offs of older brands, which can come along much later than the original.

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.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 19 times. An average run places 2.3 cards, and 43% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Honey Nut Cheerios missed 83% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Product 19 missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Wheaties missed 71% of the time, usually by a single place

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Granula First breakfast cereal by James Caleb Jackson
  • Shredded Wheat Whole wheat biscuit cereal by Henry Perky
  • Grape-Nuts Post cereal of baked wheat and barley
  • Corn Flakes Kellogg's toasted corn flakes from Battle Creek
  • Quaker Puffed Rice Puffed rice cereal
  • Wheaties General Mills whole wheat flakes
  • Rice Krispies Kellogg's crackling puffed rice
  • Cheerios General Mills oat cereal launched as CheeriOats
  • Kix General Mills corn puff cereal
  • Raisin Bran Bran flakes with raisins
  • Corn Pops Kellogg's sweetened corn cereal
  • Sugar Frosted Flakes Kellogg's frosted corn flakes with Tony the Tiger
  • Sugar Smacks Kellogg's sweetened puffed wheat
  • Trix General Mills fruity corn puffs
  • Special K Kellogg's rice and wheat flakes
  • Cocoa Puffs General Mills chocolate corn puffs
  • Frosted Flakes See Sugar Frosted Flakes renaming era
  • Froot Loops Kellogg's fruit-flavored ring cereal
  • Lucky Charms General Mills oat cereal with marshmallows
  • Apple Jacks Kellogg's apple-cinnamon ring cereal
  • Cap'n Crunch Quaker sweetened corn and oat cereal
  • Cinnamon Toast Crunch General Mills cinnamon squares
  • Honey Nut Cheerios Sweetened honey and almond Cheerios
  • Golden Grahams General Mills graham cracker cereal
  • Cookie Crisp Chocolate chip cookie shaped cereal
  • Wheat Chex Ralston wheat cereal squares
  • Grape-Nuts Flakes Flaked version of Post Grape-Nuts
  • Product 19 Kellogg's fortified flake cereal

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