Heists and cons
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Order by the year each took place. For long cons, use the year the scheme collapsed. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Heists and cons
Order by the year each took place. For long cons, use the year the scheme collapsed. You place all 38 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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release years and dates
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How to play the heists and cons timeline game
These cards are real crimes that made headlines: bank vault break-ins, train and airport robberies, museum thefts, forged treasures and schemes that fooled investors for years. The place it happened sits under each name. You order them by year: when the crime happened for a heist, and when the whole thing fell apart for a long con. One card starts on the line with its year showing. Each new one goes into a gap. A correct pick shows the year, and a wrong one still lands in its real spot but uses up one of three lives.
Some stories feel recent because a movie, podcast or documentary brought them back, and others seem ancient only because of the grainy photos. Long cons are the hardest to place, since the fraud could have run quietly for years before it collapsed, and it's the collapse you're dating. Art thefts can fool you too, because the headlines may come back around when a painting is recovered. Keep an eye on the place name, which can jog your memory of the news coverage.
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.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 38 cards you might be dealt, with 10 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Colonel Blood's Crown Jewels raid Tower of London, England
- Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels Dublin, Ireland
- Mona Lisa theft Paris, France
- Selling the Eiffel Tower Paris, France
- Great Brink's Robbery Boston, Massachusetts
- Great Train Robbery Buckinghamshire, England
- Baker Street robbery London, England
- Norrmalmstorg bank robbery Stockholm, Sweden
- Lufthansa heist New York City
- Brink's-Mat robbery Heathrow, London
- National Museum of Anthropology theft Mexico City, Mexico
- Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery London, England
- The Scream stolen from the National Gallery Oslo, Norway
- Dunbar Armored robbery Los Angeles, California
- Enron scandal Houston, Texas
- WorldCom scandal Clinton, Mississippi
- Van Gogh Museum theft Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Northern Bank robbery Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Banco Central burglary Fortaleza, Brazil
- Securitas depot robbery Tonbridge, England
- Paris Museum of Modern Art theft Paris, France
- Kunsthal theft Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Mt. Gox collapse Tokyo, Japan
- Bangladesh Bank heist Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Fyre Festival Great Exuma, Bahamas
- Theranos Palo Alto, California
- Wirecard scandal Munich, Germany
- FTX collapse Nassau, Bahamas
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