Kings & Queens of England
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Order these monarchs by the year each took the throne. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Kings & Queens of England
Order these monarchs by the year each took the throne. You place all 38 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
38
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the English monarchs timeline game
Kings and queens of England are the cards, each with a short note about the reign printed under the name. You're ordering them by the year each took the throne. One monarch starts on the line with that year showing. Choose the gap where each new card belongs among the rulers already placed. Place it well and the year comes into view; a wrong one still sets the monarch in their true place and costs one of three lives.
The deck covers centuries of English kings and queens across several royal houses. The notes mention houses, wars and famous moments, and knowing the order of the dynasties gets you most of the way. When monarchs share a name, the higher number always came later, so the real trouble is placing different names against each other. Short reigns crowd together in some stretches.
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 23 times. An average run places 10.6 cards, and 79% of all placements land in the right spot. 9% of runs place every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Henry III missed 50% of the time, usually by a single place
- Edward IV missed 44% of the time, usually by a single place
- Richard II missed 44% of the time, usually by about 3 places
The safest card is George VI, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 38 cards you might be dealt, with 10 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- William I Norman conqueror at Hastings
- William II Rufus, killed hunting
- Henry I Youngest son of the Conqueror
- Henry II First Plantagenet king
- Richard I The Lionheart, crusader
- John Forced to seal Magna Carta
- Edward I Longshanks, hammer of the Scots
- Edward II Deposed and murdered
- Edward III Launched the Hundred Years' War
- Henry IV First Lancastrian king
- Henry V Victor at Agincourt
- Henry VI Lost France, Wars of the Roses
- Richard III Died at Bosworth Field
- Henry VII First Tudor king
- Edward VI Boy king, Protestant reformer
- Mary I Catholic restorer, 'Bloody Mary'
- Elizabeth I The Virgin Queen
- Charles I Executed after the Civil War
- Charles II The Restoration monarch
- James II Deposed Catholic king
- Anne Oversaw the Acts of Union
- George I First Hanoverian king
- George II Last king to lead troops in battle
- George IV Extravagant former Prince Regent
- William IV Reign saw the Great Reform Act
- Victoria Long imperial reign, namesake era
- George V Founded the House of Windsor
- George VI Reluctant wartime king
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