Order by the year each game first released. You place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
The cards are games starring Mario and his circle: platformers, kart racers, RPGs, party games and a few side trips with Luigi, Yoshi and Peach. You're ordering them by the year each first came out, and the developer is printed beneath each title. One game starts on the timeline with its year shown. Place each card in a gap; get it right and the year appears, get it wrong and it lands in its true spot while you lose one of three lives.
Mario's career spans every Nintendo console from the arcade onward, so the hardware a game ran on is your best anchor. Kart and party sequels arrive close together and blur into one another. Most cards say Nintendo, but the outside studios behind the RPGs and spin-offs can jog your memory. Remakes and compilations can catch you, since they land well after the originals they repackage.
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.
This deck has been played 431 times. An average run places 12.7 cards, and 81% of all placements land in the right spot. Only 21 runs have ever placed every card.
The cards players get wrong most often:
The safest card is Super Mario Bros., placed right 98% of the time.
Here are 28 of the 44 cards you might be dealt, with 16 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.










