How to play the Futurama episode timeline game

Every card is a memorable Futurama episode, and a one-line description sits under each title. Your job is to arrange them by original air date. The first card is already placed, its date in view. Read each new episode's hint and slide it into the gap where it fits among the ones already down. Pick correctly and its air date is shown; pick wrong and it jumps to its real position anyway, taking away one of three lives.

Futurama has been canceled and brought back more than once, so the deck has thick clusters with long silences between them. Most cards come from the original network run, with a few from the later revivals. Working out which era an episode belongs to is half the job; ordering episodes within the same era is where the deck turns mean. Sci-fi parodies and emotional gut-punches turn up in every stretch.

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

How players are doing

This deck has been played 10 times. An average run places 5.3 cards, and 64% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

Fry and the Slurm Factory missed 80% 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.

Space Pilot 3000 Fry is cryogenically frozen and wakes in a distant future
A Fishful of Dollars Fry blows his ancient bank fortune
Hell Is Other Robots Bender meets the Robot Devil
A Flight to Remember Titanic spoof aboard a doomed starship
Fry and the Slurm Factory The gross secret of Slurm
A Head in the Polls Nixon's head runs for president
Xmas Story Murderous Robot Santa's first rampage
The Deep South Lost city of Atlanta found undersea
The Problem with Popplers The snack food that fights back
Anthology of Interest I What If machine's first tall tales
Parasites Lost Worms make Fry a better man
Amazon Women in the Mood Death by snu-snu
The Luck of the Fryrish Fry's brother and the seven-leaf clover
Time Keeps on Slippin' Time skips and a lost love note
Roswell That Ends Well Emmy winner where Fry becomes his grandfather
Leela's Homeworld The truth about Leela's parents
Godfellas Bender drifts through space playing God
Where No Fan Has Gone Before The original Star Trek cast reunites
Jurassic Bark Seymour the dog's devastating wait
The Sting Leela's grief-stricken space-honey dreams
The Farnsworth Parabox Parallel universes in a box
The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings Fry plays the holophonor for the Robot Devil
Rebirth The crew is brought back to life after a fatal crash
The Late Philip J. Fry Emmy-winning trip to the end of time
The Prisoner of Benda The body-swap episode with a real theorem
Overclockwise Bender overclocks himself into omniscience
Game of Tones Fry relives his last day before being frozen
Meanwhile Fry and Leela grow old together while time stands frozen