Order by the year each player joined the Milwaukee Bucks. 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.
You're dating Bucks here: each card is a player, nearly all with a position printed, and the line runs by the year he first joined Milwaukee. One player begins on the timeline with his year in view. Draw a card, find the gap it belongs in and place it. Correct placements show the year. Incorrect ones send the player to his real position and cost one of your three lives.
Milwaukee came in as an expansion team and won big almost right away, so the earliest cards come from a strong start. After that come the steady contenders, a long stretch of middling seasons and the recent title team built around a homegrown star. Centers and shooting guards top the printed labels. The middle years, full of solid but unremarkable players, are where runs usually unravel.
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.
































