Modern history
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Modern history
Order by the year it happened. You place all 81 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
81
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3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the modern history timeline game works
Revolutions, wars, disasters, discoveries and protests: each card is a moment in modern history, with the place it happened printed beneath. You're ordering them by the year each one took place. One event begins on the timeline with its year visible. Read each new card and put it into a gap before, between or after what's down. Right, and its year is revealed. Wrong, and the event still takes its true spot, but you lose one of three lives.
The deck moves from the age of revolutions through the world wars and the Cold War into the present day. Most of the weight falls on the period after the world wars, where crises, conflicts and cultural moments sit very close together. The place under each card gives a nudge, but plenty of countries show up in very different eras. Events you remember from the news can feel more recent than they really are.
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 1,068 times. An average run places 6.5 cards, and 69% of all placements land in the right spot. Only 3 runs have ever placed every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Grenfell Tower fire missed 70% of the time, usually by about 4 places
- Maastricht Treaty signed missed 66% of the time, usually by about 4 places
- Good Friday Agreement missed 63% of the time, usually by about 3 places
The safest card is COVID-19 declared a pandemic, placed right 99% of the time.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 81 cards you might be dealt, with 53 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Declaration of Independence Philadelphia
- Battle of Trafalgar Atlantic
- California Gold Rush United States
- American Civil War begins United States
- Suffragette movement begins in Britain United Kingdom
- First World War begins Europe
- Treaty of Versailles France
- Hindenburg disaster New Jersey
- Attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii
- United Nations founded San Francisco
- Marshall Plan announced Europe
- Everest first summited Hillary & Tenzing
- Berlin Wall goes up Berlin
- March on Washington Washington, D.C.
- Prague Spring Czechoslovakia
- Apollo 13 emergency Lunar transit
- Fall of Saigon Vietnam
- AIDS first identified United States
- Live Aid London & Philadelphia
- Berlin Wall falls Berlin
- Soviet Union dissolved Moscow
- Rwandan genocide Rwanda
- Hong Kong handover Hong Kong
- September 11 attacks United States
- Hurricane Katrina New Orleans
- Fukushima disaster Japan
- Paris Agreement signed Paris
- Notre-Dame fire Paris
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