How the Lady Gaga milestones timeline game works

This deck covers Lady Gaga's career: record deals, albums, awards, film and TV roles, residencies and headline performances, each placed by the year it happened. A short note under every card adds context, such as the hit singles or a co-star. One milestone starts on the line, year visible. For the rest, decide where each fits among the cards already down and put it there. A correct placement brings up the year; a mistake still sends the card to its proper spot and uses up one of your three lives.

Her story runs from a short-lived first record deal through dance-pop stardom, a jazz detour with a legendary crooner, acting roles and awards, and into a later run of pop records and stadium shows. Big live moments are a recurring theme, with anthems, halftime sets and opening ceremonies spread across her career, so the detail line is often the only way to tell them apart. Her acting work is easy to misplace, since film and TV roles sit between albums rather than in a single phase.

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 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Signs with Def Jam and is dropped months later L.A. Reid calls it his biggest mistake
Signs with Streamline Records Vincent Herbert's imprint at Interscope
Releases The Fame Just Dance and Poker Face
Opens for the Pussycat Dolls Doll Domination Tour in Europe and Oceania
Wins Grammys for Poker Face and The Fame Best Dance Recording and dance album
Wears the meat dress at the VMAs Bad Romance wins Video of the Year
Releases Born This Way The title track tops the Hot 100
Launches the Born This Way Foundation A youth empowerment nonprofit
Releases Cheek to Cheek with Tony Bennett A jazz standards duets album
Sings a Sound of Music tribute at the Oscars A medley honoring Julie Andrews
Stars in American Horror Story: Hotel Plays the hotel owner Elizabeth
Wins a Golden Globe for American Horror Story Best Actress in a Miniseries
Releases Joanne Named for her late aunt
Headlines the Super Bowl halftime show in Houston Drones light up NRG Stadium
Premieres Gaga: Five Foot Two on Netflix A documentary on making Joanne
Stars in A Star Is Born Plays Ally opposite Bradley Cooper
Wins the Oscar for Shallow An Academy Award for the A Star Is Born ballad
Launches Haus Laboratories A vegan makeup line on Amazon
Releases Chromatica Rain on Me with Ariana Grande
Sings the anthem at Joe Biden's inauguration On the Capitol steps
Writes Hold My Hand for Top Gun: Maverick A power ballad for Tom Cruise's jet film
Launches The Chromatica Ball A stadium tour of twenty dates
Named co-chair of the President's Committee on the Arts Appointed by Joe Biden
Performs at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony Mon truc en plumes by the Seine
Plays Lee Quinzel in Joker: Folie à Deux Opposite Joaquin Phoenix
Releases Mayhem Abracadabra and Disease
Plays a free concert on Copacabana Beach Millions pack the Rio shoreline
Appears in Wednesday Plays the ghost of a Nevermore teacher