Order by the year each Mission: Impossible film was released or each series premiered. You place all 10 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
The cards are the Mission: Impossible TV series and films, and you rank them by the year each film opened or each series premiered. Films show their director; the shows are marked as TV series. One card is placed for you with its year in view. Each new card gets dropped into a gap of your choosing. Choose correctly and the year is revealed. Choose wrong and the card self-destructs into its proper slot anyway, taking one of three lives with it.
The franchise has lived on the small screen and the big one, and the TV cards are easy to misjudge if you only know the films. The numbered sequels are the gentle part. Later entries traded numbers for subtitles, and two of them read like one story split in half, so keep their titles straight. Knowing who directed which film is the most reliable clue the cards give you.
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 10 of the 10 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
