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Order by the year each diet launched, got its defining book, or went mainstream. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Diets
Order by the year each diet launched, got its defining book, or went mainstream. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Diets, weight-loss products and eating plans make up this deck, ordered by the year each one launched, got its defining book or went mainstream. Beneath each name is a short line about the person, company or idea behind it. You begin with one diet already placed and its year shown. Each new card goes into the gap of your choosing. A right answer reveals the year; a wrong one puts the card where it truly belongs and takes a life. Lose one and you can earn it back with ten correct cards in a row, though you never hold more than three.
The range is huge, from a Victorian pamphlet to modern weekly injections, with shakes, frozen meals, fasting schedules and documentaries along the way. Low-fat and low-carb ideas keep trading places throughout, so the type of plan alone won't date it. Doctors and authors named on the cards help only if you know when they were famous. Plans that feel like recent inventions are the danger, since several have much older roots than their current popularity suggests.
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.
Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.