Order the Godzilla films by year of release. You place all 34 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
All of these cards are Godzilla films, from the Toho productions to the American ones, each printed with its director. You're arranging them by year of release. The first film is laid down for you, year and all. For every new card, pick the gap where you think it falls. Choose the right gap and you learn the year; pick wrong and the film still stomps into its true place, costing one of your three lives. A run of ten correct placements brings back a lost life, up to three.
The big lizard has had a long and uneven career, which fans split into eras with their own tone, from somber nuclear allegory to kid-friendly monster wrestling and back again. Rematches with the same foes recur across those eras, so "vs." titles are easy to confuse. The director line helps if you know who shaped each era. Cards that differ only by the studio in parentheses need extra care.
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 34 cards you might be dealt, with 6 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.



































