Order by the year each player joined the Denver Broncos. 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.
One Bronco is already on the timeline when you begin, his year showing. Every card after that is another player from the franchise, his position abbreviated under the name, and the goal is to order them by the year each joined Denver. Choose a gap for each new card. A correct gap reveals the year; a wrong one still puts the player in his true spot but takes one of three lives.
Denver was a founding member of the AFL, and the deck runs from those early seasons through the Orange Crush defense, the Super Bowl teams led by star quarterbacks and the recent search for a successor. Receivers and running backs show up most, with linebackers close behind. The tricky cards come from the in-between stretches, when the roster turned over and few names stuck.
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.