Order these Punk 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.
These cards are punk acts, and under each name you'll see the title of their first album. You put them in order by the year that debut came out. One act is already down on the timeline with its year showing. Every card you draw after that, you slot into a gap. Choose well and the year is revealed; choose badly and the act still lands in its real place, costing you one of your three lives.
The list runs from the proto-punk bands through the New York and London scenes, California hardcore, skate punk and the pop-punk boom. Bands that broke big later often had a low-key first record well before, so don't date a debut by the band's famous album. The years of the first punk explosion are crowded, and bands from either coast in the same stretch are easy to swap.
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.
This deck has been played 13 times. An average run places 6.5 cards, and 69% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.