Lake depths
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Order by maximum depth, shallowest first. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Lake depths
Order by maximum depth, shallowest first. You place all 45 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
45
Cards
3
Lives per run
heights in meters
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Card reveal
How to play the lake depth ranking game
How deep does it go? Each card is a lake, with the country or region printed under it, and you're ranking them by maximum depth in meters, shallowest first. You begin with one lake on the line and its depth showing. Place each new card above or below the lakes already down by picking a gap. If you're right, its depth is revealed; if you're wrong, it still moves to its true spot and you lose one of your three lives.
Size and depth have little to do with each other: some enormous lakes are surprisingly shallow, while narrow mountain lakes plunge very deep. Lakes carved by glaciers and those sitting in old rift valleys tend to be the deepest. The middle of the deck is crowded with lakes of similar depth, and fame doesn't help much there, so think about how each lake was formed.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 13 times. An average run places 2.7 cards, and 47% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 45 cards you might be dealt, with 17 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Lake Okeechobee Florida
- Great Salt Lake Utah
- Lake Balaton Hungary
- Lake Winnipeg Canada
- Windermere England
- Loch Lomond Scotland
- Lake Huron United States & Canada
- Lake Ontario United States & Canada
- Lake Michigan United States
- Lake Geneva Switzerland & France
- Lake Garda Italy
- Lake Maggiore Italy & Switzerland
- Lake Hawea New Zealand
- Lake Superior United States & Canada
- Lake Van Turkey
- Lake Chelan Washington
- Tinnsja Norway
- Nahuel Huapi Argentina
- Lake Kivu Rwanda & DR Congo
- Lake Sarez Tajikistan
- Quesnel Lake British Columbia
- Hornindalsvatnet Norway
- Lake Matano Sulawesi
- Crater Lake Oregon
- Issyk-Kul Kyrgyzstan
- Lake O'Higgins Chile & Argentina
- Lake Vostok Beneath Antarctic ice
- Lake Tanganyika East Africa
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