Order by the year each player joined the Indiana Pacers. 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.
Each card in this deck is a Pacer, and the timeline orders them by the year they first joined Indiana. Most cards print a position too. One player is placed at the start with his year visible. With every new card, you choose a gap and commit. If you're right, the year is shown; if you're wrong, the player moves to his correct place and you lose one of three lives.
Indiana is a basketball-mad state, and this deck traces its team from the early seasons after it left the ABA through the playoff battles that made it a fixture in the East, the Finals runs and the fast-paced young rosters of recent years. Centers show up more than any other label. Watch the stable stretches, where a core stayed together and new arrivals came in a trickle, because those few cards are easy to misjudge.
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.
































