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The X-Files episodes

Famous The X-Files 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 X-Files episode timeline game

Every card is a well-known X-Files episode, with a one-line hint under the title, and you sort them by the date each first aired. You begin with one episode placed and its air date revealed. For each new card, choose the gap where it fits among the episodes already down. Get it right and the date appears. Get it wrong and the episode still moves to its real place, taking one of your three lives.

The show alternates between its long conspiracy story and standalone monster cases, and the monster cases are the hard ones, since a creepy creature could turn up at any point. Conspiracy hints are easier to place if you followed the mythology. Most cards come from the original run, with a few from the revival much later. How much the two agents trust each other is a quiet clue too.

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 Mulder and Scully first team up on the X-Files
  • Squeeze Liver-eating mutant Eugene Tooms stretches through walls
  • Ice An Arctic parasite breeds paranoia at a research station
  • Beyond the Sea A death-row psychic torments a grieving Scully
  • Tooms The mutant Tooms is released to kill again
  • The Erlenmeyer Flask Alien-human hybrids and the death of Deep Throat
  • Duane Barry An abductee takes hostages before Scully vanishes
  • Irresistible A death fetishist fixates on Scully
  • Die Hand Die Verletzt Devil worship simmers in a small-town PTA
  • Humbug Murders among circus sideshow performers
  • Paper Clip Nazi scientists and a vast alien conspiracy
  • Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose A reluctant psychic foresees people's deaths
  • War of the Coprophages Killer cockroaches spark a town-wide panic
  • Pusher A killer who bends others' will with his voice
  • Jose Chung's From Outer Space A comic tangle of clashing UFO accounts
  • Home A monstrous inbred family shocks a quiet town
  • Memento Mori Scully confronts her cancer diagnosis
  • Small Potatoes A shape-shifter impersonates Mulder himself
  • The Post-Modern Prometheus A black-and-white homage to Frankenstein
  • Triangle Mulder time-slips onto a haunted liner in the Bermuda Triangle
  • Dreamland Mulder swaps bodies with an Area 51 man
  • Milagro A writer's fiction turns murderously real for Scully
  • The Unnatural An alien finds joy playing 1940s baseball
  • X-Cops A monster hunt filmed in the style of the show Cops
  • Je Souhaite Mulder meets a jaded, wish-granting genie
  • Existence Scully gives birth amid alien intrigue
  • The Truth Mulder stands trial for murder
  • My Struggle Mulder and Scully reopen the X-Files years later

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