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Dinosaurs

Order by how long ago they lived, most recent first. You place all 31 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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31
Cards
3
Lives per run
millions of years ago
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How the dinosaur age ranking game works

Dinosaurs and a few of their feathered relatives fill this deck, ordered by how many millions of years ago they lived, most recent first. Each card prints its geological period, such as Late Cretaceous or Late Jurassic. One dinosaur starts on the line with its age showing. Place each new card above or below the ones already down. Pick right and its age in millions of years appears; pick wrong and it still goes to its true spot, costing one of your three lives.

The period printed on each card does a lot of the work, so the real puzzle is ordering animals from the same slice of time. The final age of the dinosaurs is especially crowded, with many famous names living very close together, and some cards share exactly the same age. Big, famous predators are easy to lump together even when vast stretches of time separate them.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in millions of years ago, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 35 times. An average run places 5.7 cards, and 65% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Carnotaurus missed 71% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Deinonychus missed 71% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Parasaurolophus missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 31 cards you might be dealt, with 3 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Ankylosaurus Late Cretaceous
  • Triceratops Late Cretaceous
  • Tyrannosaurus rex Late Cretaceous
  • Pachycephalosaurus Late Cretaceous
  • Therizinosaurus Late Cretaceous
  • Carnotaurus Late Cretaceous
  • Velociraptor Late Cretaceous
  • Parasaurolophus Late Cretaceous
  • Argentinosaurus Late Cretaceous
  • Giganotosaurus Late Cretaceous
  • Deinonychus Early Cretaceous
  • Microraptor Early Cretaceous
  • Baryonyx Early Cretaceous
  • Iguanodon Early Cretaceous
  • Sinosauropteryx Early Cretaceous
  • Utahraptor Early Cretaceous
  • Allosaurus Late Jurassic
  • Archaeopteryx Late Jurassic
  • Ceratosaurus Late Jurassic
  • Apatosaurus Late Jurassic
  • Brachiosaurus Late Jurassic
  • Diplodocus Late Jurassic
  • Stegosaurus Late Jurassic
  • Cryolophosaurus Early Jurassic
  • Dilophosaurus Early Jurassic
  • Coelophysis Late Triassic
  • Plateosaurus Late Triassic
  • Eoraptor Late Triassic

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