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Order these voyages and expeditions by the year each feat happened. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Explorers
Order these voyages and expeditions by the year each feat happened. You place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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3
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release years and dates
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How to play the Explorers timeline game
Each card is a famous voyage or expedition, named for the explorer behind it, with the place it happened printed underneath: an ocean, a coastline, a pole or a mountain. You sort them by the year the feat on the card took place. The game puts one card on the line with its year showing. Slot every new card into the gap where you think it belongs. Place it well and the year appears; misplace it and the card still slides into its true position, but you lose one of your three lives.
The deck sails from Viking longships and Silk Road caravans through the age of sail to polar sledges, deep-sea submersibles and round-the-world balloons. The great European voyages crowd together, so knowing who sailed for whom and who followed whose route really helps. Read the wording closely, because setting out and arriving can be years apart. The race to the poles and the push to the highest and deepest places on Earth make for some close calls.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 44 cards you might be dealt, with 16 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Marco Polo sets out for Asia Venice to China
- Ibn Battuta sets out on his travels Tangier, Morocco
- Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope Southern Africa
- Columbus reaches the Americas Bahamas
- Vasco da Gama reaches India Calicut
- Pedro Alvares Cabral reaches Brazil South America
- Ponce de Leon lands in Florida North America
- Magellan's crew circles the globe Around the world
- Jacques Cartier sails into the Gulf of St. Lawrence Canada
- Orellana sails down the Amazon South America
- Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation Around the world
- Henry Hudson sails up the Hudson River New York
- Abel Tasman reaches Tasmania Southern Ocean
- Captain Cook lands at Botany Bay Australia
- Livingstone sees Victoria Falls Zambezi River
- Burke and Wills cross Australia Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Nellie Bly races around the world Around the world
- Amundsen sails the Northwest Passage Arctic Canada
- Hiram Bingham reaches Machu Picchu Peru
- Amundsen reaches the South Pole Antarctica
- Shackleton's Endurance sinks in the ice Weddell Sea
- Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic New York to Paris
- Byrd flies over the South Pole Antarctica
- Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki crosses the Pacific Peru to Polynesia
- Hillary and Tenzing summit Everest Nepal
- Junko Tabei summits Everest Nepal
- Messner and Habeler climb Everest without oxygen Nepal
- Piccard and Jones balloon around the world Around the world
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