How to play the Oscar-winning songs timeline game

These cards are songs that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, with the songwriters printed under each title. You order them by the year of the ceremony where they won. One song sits on the line at the start, year showing. Slot each new card where you think it belongs among the others. A right answer brings up the year; a wrong one shifts the song to its true position, and every slip like that takes away one of your three lives.

The deck reaches from studio-era musicals and early Disney features to power ballads, rap and recent animated hits. Several songwriters won more than once, which can anchor a few cards if you know their careers. Watch for the lag between a film's release and its ceremony, and for songs that later became standards, since a tune everyone knows can be older than it feels. The Disney renaissance and the big movie ballads sit close together.

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 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

The Way You Look Tonight Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields
Over the Rainbow Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
When You Wish Upon a Star Leigh Harline and Ned Washington
Swinging on a Star Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert
Mona Lisa Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
Que Sera, Sera Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, sung by Doris Day
Moon River Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer
Chim Chim Cher-ee The Sherman Brothers
The Shadow of Your Smile Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Evergreen Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams
I Just Called to Say I Love You Stevie Wonder
Say You, Say Me Lionel Richie
(I've Had) The Time of My Life Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz
Let the River Run Carly Simon
Under the Sea Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
Can You Feel the Love Tonight Elton John and Tim Rice
Colors of the Wind Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
Things Have Changed Bob Dylan
Lose Yourself Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto
Jai Ho A. R. Rahman and Gulzar
Let It Go Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Glory Common and John Legend
City of Stars Justin Hurwitz with Pasek and Paul
Shallow Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
Naatu Naatu M. M. Keeravani and Chandrabose
What Was I Made For? Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell