Landmarks
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Order by the year each was completed. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Landmarks
Order by the year each was completed. You place all 79 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
79
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the world landmarks timeline game
Buildings, bridges, canals, towers and monuments from around the world are on these cards, with the city or country printed below each one. The aim is to order them by the year each was completed. One landmark sits on the line from the start with its year showing. For every card you draw, pick the gap where it belongs. Get it right and the completion year appears; get it wrong and it still goes to its true place, costing one of your three lives.
Ancient and medieval monuments share the deck with steel towers, glass museums and stadiums, so the span is enormous. Big projects are tricky because many took generations to build, and the card counts the year they were finished, not started. The location is a handy hint, though most great cities mix very old and very new. Expect the most pressure around the age of skyscrapers and giant engineering works, where completions pile up.
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 37 times. An average run places 4.6 cards, and 61% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- CN Tower missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Brandenburg Gate missed 67% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Taipei 101 missed 67% of the time, usually by a single place
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 79 cards you might be dealt, with 51 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Colosseum Rome
- Chichén Itzá's El Castillo Mexico
- Westminster Abbey London
- Leaning Tower of Pisa Italy
- Kremlin walls Moscow
- Great Wall (Ming rebuild) China
- Taj Mahal gardens completed India
- Panthéon Paris
- Royal Pavilion Brighton
- Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) London
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Eiffel Tower Paris
- Flatiron Building New York
- Wembley Stadium (original) London
- Empire State Building New York
- Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
- Atomium Brussels
- Space Needle Seattle
- Sydney Opera House Australia
- Centre Pompidou Paris
- Bank of China Tower Hong Kong
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Spain
- Millennium Dome London
- Millau cable-stay deck France
- Beijing National Stadium China
- Sagrada Família (nave completed) Barcelona
- One World Trade Center New York
- Sagrada Família towers Barcelona
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