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The Wire episodes

Famous The Wire episodes — order by the date each first aired. Place all 27 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How The Wire episodes is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — exact air dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in exact air dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

27 of the 27 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The Target McNulty hears the Snot Boogie parable outside a Baltimore court
  • The Detail The misfit detail assembles downstairs
  • The Buys D'Angelo's chess lesson in the pit
  • Old Cases The famous one-word crime scene
  • The Pager The wiretap case takes shape
  • The Wire Title episode, surveillance tightens
  • Cleaning Up The pit storyline turns tragic
  • Sentencing The Barksdale case reaches a sobering courtroom close
  • Ebb Tide The Baltimore docks and a load of dead women
  • Collateral Damage The can of bodies fallout spreads
  • All Prologue Omar's courtroom scene for the ages
  • Port in a Storm The Sobotka arc's mournful close
  • Time After Time Baltimore's high-rise housing towers are demolished
  • Hamsterdam Bunny Colvin's radical experiment begins
  • Middle Ground Emmy-nominated rooftop reckoning
  • Mission Accomplished The Hamsterdam experiment's bitter end
  • Boys of Summer Four West Baltimore schoolboys enter the frame
  • Corner Boys The classroom scenes at their sharpest
  • Misgivings Small mistakes, devastating consequences
  • That's Got His Own A heartbreaking hour for the corner boys
  • Final Grades An acclaimed feature-length reckoning for the schoolboys
  • More with Less The Baltimore Sun newsroom enters the story
  • Transitions Old-guard Baltimore changes hands
  • The Dickensian Aspect McNulty's scheme spirals further
  • Clarifications The Omar storyline's abrupt street shock
  • Late Editions Bubbles' anniversary speech lands
  • -30- A sweeping montage sends Baltimore's cycle spinning onward

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