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Extinct animals

Order by the year each was last recorded alive. You place all 37 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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release years and dates
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How to play the extinct animals timeline game

Every card in this deck is an animal that no longer exists, with the place it lived printed under its name. The timeline orders them by the year each was last recorded alive. One animal starts on the line with that year showing. Place each new card into the gap where you think it belongs. Call it correctly and the year comes up; a wrong one still moves the card to its real place, costing one of your three lives.

Animals lost centuries ago share the deck with ones that vanished within living memory. Islands come up again and again, because isolated species often fell fast once people arrived. The middle stretch, when hunting and habitat loss took a heavy toll, is crowded. Many famous losses happened later than people assume, and some barely remembered ones are surprisingly old.

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.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 28 times. An average run places 2.8 cards, and 48% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Pyrenean ibex missed 100% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Christmas Island pipistrelle missed 80% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Kauai oo missed 71% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 37 cards you might be dealt, with 9 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Elephant bird Madagascar
  • Haast's eagle New Zealand
  • Moa New Zealand
  • Aurochs Poland
  • Steller's sea cow Bering Sea
  • Great auk North Atlantic
  • Falkland Islands wolf Falkland Islands
  • Sea mink North American coast
  • Tarpan Ukraine
  • Passenger pigeon North America
  • Bubal hartebeest North Africa
  • Syrian wild ass Middle East
  • Heath hen Martha's Vineyard
  • Bali tiger Bali
  • Schomburgk's deer Thailand
  • Toolache wallaby South Australia
  • Laysan rail Hawaii
  • Caribbean monk seal Caribbean Sea
  • Guam flying fox Guam
  • Japanese sea lion Sea of Japan
  • Round Island burrowing boa Mauritius
  • Javan tiger Java
  • Golden toad Costa Rica
  • Pyrenean ibex Spain
  • Yangtze paddlefish China
  • Baiji Yangtze River
  • Christmas Island pipistrelle Christmas Island
  • Alaotra grebe Madagascar

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