Order these Country acts by the year of their debut album. You place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
The cards are country artists, and under each name is the title of their first album. You're putting the artists in order by the year that debut was released. The timeline begins with one artist already placed, debut year showing. Slot each new name into the gap where you think it fits. Right, and the year is revealed; wrong, and the card still moves to its true place while you lose one of three lives.
It reaches from honky-tonk and Nashville sound pioneers through the outlaws, the neotraditionalists, the arena stars and the recent wave. A debut can come well before the hits, so an artist whose fame peaked later may have started earlier than you think. The album title is worth reading, though a self-titled debut tells you little. Artists whose careers overlapped for a long time are where most mistakes happen.
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 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.