True Detective episodes

Famous True Detective episodes. Order by the date each first aired. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How to play the True Detective episode timeline game

Each card is an episode of True Detective, with a short hint about the case under the title, and the goal is to order them by the date they first aired. One episode is placed at the start, its date visible. Every new card goes into a gap of your choosing among the episodes already on the line. Right guesses reveal the date. Wrong ones still send the card to its real place but cost one of three lives.

Each season tells a separate story with its own detectives, its own crime and its own bleak landscape. Spotting which case a hint belongs to is the first step; ordering the cases is the second. Inside a single case the episodes march toward a reveal, and the middle hours, full of interviews and dead ends, are easy to swap.

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 28 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The Long Bright Dark Hart and Cohle recount a ritualistic occult murder in Louisiana
  • Seeing Things Cohle's dark worldview and hallucinations surface
  • The Locked Room The hunt for a cult killer deepens
  • Who Goes There Cohle goes undercover in a heist, shot in one long take
  • The Secret Fate of All Life A stash-house shootout appears to close the case
  • Haunted Houses Hart and Cohle's partnership finally shatters
  • After You've Gone Hart and Cohle reunite to reopen the Yellow King case
  • Form and Void Hart and Cohle confront the killer in his lair
  • The Western Book of the Dead A grisly corpse links a cop, a mobster, and two detectives
  • Night Finds You A shocking ambush upends the investigation
  • Maybe Tomorrow The team regroups after the shooting
  • Down Will Come A stakeout erupts into a chaotic gun battle
  • Church in Ruins An orgy at a mansion exposes deep corruption
  • Black Maps and Motel Rooms The walls close in on the detectives
  • Omega Station The Vinci conspiracy reaches its tragic end
  • The Great War and Modern Memory Detective Hays probes two children's disappearance in the Ozarks
  • The Big Never The case haunts Hays across three decades
  • The Hour and the Day Suspicion falls on a troubled local man
  • If You Have Ghosts An aging Hays battles his failing memory
  • Hunters in the Dark New leads reopen old wounds
  • The Final Country The conspiracy behind the case emerges
  • Now Am Found Hays finds a measure of peace with the truth
  • Night Country: Part 1 Eight men vanish from an Alaskan research station
  • Night Country: Part 2 Danvers and Navarro examine a frozen mass of corpses
  • Night Country: Part 3 The long polar night deepens the mystery
  • Night Country: Part 4 A cold-case murder ties into the disappearances
  • Night Country: Part 5 Long-buried secrets in Ennis begin to surface
  • Night Country: Part 6 The truth beneath the ice is revealed

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