Order by the year each player joined the Houston Texans. 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.
The Texans' players are all here, and you sort them by the year each first joined Houston. The cards list a position abbreviation under the name, from DB to ILB. A single player starts on the timeline with his year visible. Draw each new card and put it in the gap you think fits. A right gap reveals the year; a wrong gap still moves him to his true place, but you lose one of three lives.
The Texans are the NFL's newest franchise, an expansion team that arrived after the Oilers left town, so this deck is entirely modern. The club spent its early seasons building toward the playoffs, then became a regular in the division race. Receivers and running backs are the most common positions. Because everything is packed into a short history, the gaps between cards are small, and close calls are everywhere.
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.