Lost episodes

Famous Lost episodes. Order by the date each first aired. You place all 31 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How to play the Lost episode timeline game

Each card is a famous episode of Lost, with a one-line hint under the title, and the task is to sort them by the date each first aired. One episode is placed at the start with its date showing. For each new card, pick the gap where it belongs among the episodes on the line. When you're right, the air date appears. When you're wrong, the episode still lands where it really goes, and you lose one of your three lives.

Lost keeps changing the way it tells its stories, and the hints often give away which storytelling trick an episode uses, which is a clue in itself. Mysteries pile up, get answered and make way for bigger ones, so ask whether a hint assumes something you only learned later. Two-part episodes look like gifts, but where they sit against the rest of the season still takes thought.

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.

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.

  • Pilot, Part 1 Survivors wake on a beach beside a burning fuselage
  • Pilot, Part 2 The monster and the French transmission
  • Walkabout The Locke twist that redefined TV
  • White Rabbit Live together, die alone speech
  • Numbers Hurley's cursed lottery numbers
  • Deus Ex Machina Locke pounds on the hatch
  • Do No Harm Boone's fate and a birth on the island
  • Exodus, Part 1 The raft finally sets sail
  • Exodus, Part 2 The mysterious hatch in the jungle is blown open
  • Man of Science, Man of Faith Inside the hatch at last
  • The Other 48 Days The tail section's whole story
  • Lockdown The blast-door map revealed
  • Live Together, Die Alone Desmond and the fail-safe key
  • A Tale of Two Cities Waking up among the Others
  • Flashes Before Your Eyes Desmond comes unstuck in time
  • The Man from Tallahassee Locke's backstory bombshell
  • Through the Looking Glass 'We have to go back!' reveals a flash-forward
  • The Beginning of the End The freighter era begins
  • The Constant Desmond's phone call, series-best hour
  • There's No Place Like Home, Part 2 The Oceanic Six get home
  • Because You Left The island skips through time
  • The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham Locke's off-island odyssey
  • The Incident Jughead, Jacob, and a white flash
  • LA X The flash-sideways begin
  • Ab Aeterno Richard Alpert's centuries-spanning story
  • Happily Ever After Desmond bridges both realities
  • The Candidate The devastating submarine hour
  • Across the Sea Jacob's divisive origin story

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