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Order the PBS children's series by the year each first aired. You place all 38 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the PBS Kids timeline game

The cards in this deck are PBS children's series, from neighborhood visits and puppet-filled streets to reading, science and math shows, and you order them by the year each first aired. A short description under every title reminds you who hosted it or what it set out to teach. You begin with one show placed and dated. For each new card, choose its spot on the line relative to the shows already down. When you're right, its year comes up. When you're wrong, it still goes where it belongs, and you lose one of three lives.

This deck covers a long stretch of public television, from the founding classics through the educational magazine shows to the animated series made for today's preschoolers. Many of the oldest shows are still on the air, which makes them feel timeless and hard to place. Cartoons based on picture books came along in waves, so neighboring cards can be very close together. Think about who you watched them with: a show you shared with your own kids may be far older or newer than one from your own childhood.

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.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 38 cards you might be dealt, with 10 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Cardigans and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
  • Sesame Street Big Bird, Elmo and the Muppets
  • The Electric Company Reading sketches with Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman
  • 3-2-1 Contact Children's science magazine show
  • Reading Rainbow LeVar Burton recommends books
  • Shining Time Station Mr. Conductor and Thomas the Tank Engine
  • Lamb Chop's Play-Along Shari Lewis and her sock puppet
  • Barney & Friends Purple dinosaur sings I Love You
  • Ghostwriter Kids solve mysteries with a ghost
  • The Magic School Bus Ms. Frizzle's field trips
  • Wishbone Jack Russell terrier acts out classics
  • Arthur Aardvark and friends in Elwood City
  • Dragon Tales Emmy and Max visit Dragon Land
  • Between the Lions Lion family runs a library
  • Cyberchase Math adventures vs. the Hacker
  • Liberty's Kids The American Revolution through young eyes
  • Maya & Miguel Twins in a Latino neighborhood
  • Super Why Fairy-tale reading superheroes
  • Sid the Science Kid Puppet kid asks science questions
  • Dinosaur Train Buddy the T. rex rides through time
  • Wild Kratts Animated Kratt brothers with creature powers
  • Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Mister Rogers' tiger puppet, animated
  • Peg + Cat Math problems with a girl and her cat
  • Nature Cat House cat dreams of the outdoors
  • Ready Jet Go Alien family teaches astronomy
  • Pinkalicious & Peterrific Pink-loving girl and her brother
  • Elinor Wonders Why Curious rabbit asks questions
  • Alma's Way Puerto Rican girl in the Bronx

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