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Extinct animals

Order by the year each was last recorded alive. You get one card and a line of cards already in place — slot it where it belongs. Three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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37
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
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How Extinct animals is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and 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 release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 37 cards you could be dealt, plus 9 more. The 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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