Fast-food menu-item debuts

Order these fast-food menu items by the year each debuted. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Fast-food menu-item debuts
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Order these fast-food menu items by the year each debuted. Drag or tap it onto the line
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28
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Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the fast-food menu items timeline game works

Famous fast-food menu items are on these cards, each with a short description printed under its name. You're ordering them by the year each item debuted. One item is placed on the timeline first, its year showing. Read each new card and choose the gap where it fits among the others. Correct, and its debut year appears; incorrect, and it still slides into its true place, costing one of your three lives.

Signature burgers, fried chicken, breakfast sandwiches, shakes, kids' meals and coffee drinks all show up. Items that have been on the menu your whole life are usually older than you think, and limited-time specials that keep coming back can scramble your memory. The later stretch is full of novelty items that arrived in quick succession, so expect close calls there.

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 20 times. An average run places 3.5 cards, and 54% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich missed 86% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich missed 83% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • McRib missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • KFC Original Recipe Colonel Sanders' pressure-fried chicken recipe
  • Whopper Burger King's flame-grilled flagship burger
  • Filet-O-Fish McDonald's fish sandwich for Lent
  • In-N-Out Double-Double Two patties, two slices of cheese
  • Whopper Jr Smaller version of the Whopper
  • Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich Truett Cathy's pressure-cooked fillet on a bun
  • Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich Thinly sliced roast beef debut
  • Big Mac Two all-beef patties, special sauce
  • Wendy's Frosty Thick chocolate frozen dessert
  • Shamrock Shake McDonald's minty green seasonal shake
  • Quarter Pounder Larger single-patty McDonald's burger
  • Egg McMuffin McDonald's breakfast sandwich
  • Happy Meal Kids' meal with a toy
  • McChicken Breaded chicken patty sandwich
  • McRib Boneless pork sandwich in BBQ sauce
  • Chicken McNuggets Bite-sized breaded chicken
  • Cinnabon Cinnamon roll bakery chain launch
  • Dairy Queen Blizzard Thick soft-serve with mix-ins
  • Frappuccino Starbucks' blended iced coffee
  • Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich Cayenne-spiced chicken fillet
  • Chalupa Taco Bell's fried flatbread shell
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte Starbucks' autumn seasonal drink
  • Baja Blast Mountain Dew flavor made for Taco Bell
  • Crunchwrap Supreme Hexagonal folded Taco Bell wrap
  • Baconator Wendy's six-strip bacon cheeseburger
  • KFC Double Down Bacon and cheese between fried chicken
  • Doritos Locos Tacos Taco Bell taco with a Doritos shell
  • Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Viral fried chicken sandwich

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