Famous How I Met Your Mother episodes. Order by the date each first aired. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Every card is a beloved episode of How I Met Your Mother, printed with a one-line setup, and you're sorting them by original air date. To get you going, one episode sits on the timeline with its air date out in the open. Read each card's setup and slide it into the gap you think is right. Nail it and the air date appears. Miss, and the episode still jumps to its true place, costing you one of three lives.
Future Ted narrates the whole story, so the series is full of flashbacks and flash-forwards that can mislead you if you go by when something happens in the plot. Order by broadcast, not by story. Ted's girlfriends, Barney's romances and the slow approach of the Mother are the most reliable markers. Callbacks to running gags are built to fool you, since they show up long after the original joke.
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.
Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
