Order by the year of the Grammy ceremony at which each act won Best New Artist. You place all 40 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 acts that won the Grammy for Best New Artist, and you order them by the year of the ceremony where each one won. Printed under every name is the act's genre or style. You'll see one winner on the line from the start, its year shown. For each new act, judge where it falls among the winners already placed and put it there. Get it right and the ceremony year appears; get it wrong and the act moves to its true position, costing one of your three lives.
The winners stretch from crooners and the first rock bands through soft rock, new wave, R&B divas and teen pop to the streaming-age stars. Genre helps you sort the eras, though soft rock, soul and pop singers turn up again and again. The ceremony honors a breakout year, so the award usually lands the year after an act's first hit. Long careers are a trap: some winners are so established now that it's hard to remember when they were new, while others faded quickly after their big night.
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.
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.


