Order by the year each player joined the Washington Wizards. 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.
This deck covers the franchise now known as the Wizards, sorted by the year each player first joined it. A position is printed under every name. One player is already on the line when you start, with his year showing. Slot each new card into the gap you think is right. Get it and the year appears; miss and the player still goes to his true spot, but one of your three lives is gone.
Before Washington, the club played in Chicago and Baltimore, and for a long time it was the Bullets rather than the Wizards, so the early cards come from teams with different names. The deck then runs through the Finals era, a lot of up-and-down seasons and the guard-led playoff teams of more recent memory. Players from forgettable rebuilding years cause the most trouble, and since centers are the most common label, the position rarely narrows things down.
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.
































