Order by the year each player joined the Minnesota Timberwolves. 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.
Start with one Timberwolf on the line, his year showing, and build out from there. Each card is a Minnesota player, usually with his position printed below the name, and the order is the year he first joined the team. Place every new card in the gap where you think he fits. A right guess reveals the year. A wrong one still moves him to his real spot, but it costs one of your three lives.
Minnesota is an expansion franchise, so the whole deck stays in the modern game. It covers the hard early seasons, the long era built around one franchise forward, many springs without playoff basketball and the recent climb behind a new young star. Cards from those playoff droughts are the hardest, since the rosters turned over constantly. Centers are the most common label, for what that's worth.
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.
































