Order by the year each player joined the Charlotte Hornets. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Charlotte's players are the cards here, and you put them in order of the year each joined the team. Most cards add a position under the name. One player is already on the timeline with his year showing when you start. Every card you draw after that goes into a gap: before, after or between those already down. Get it right and the year shows; get it wrong and he still moves to the right spot, but you lose one of three lives.
This franchise's story has a twist: the original Hornets moved away, Charlotte got a new team called the Bobcats, and the Hornets name and history later came home. The deck spans the teal-era originals, the Bobcats years and the current club. Shooting guard is the most common label. Players from the Bobcats seasons are the easiest to lose track of, and they make the middle of the line surprisingly hard.
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 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
































