Order by the year each player joined the Kansas City Chiefs. 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.
Kansas City's roster history is laid out in cards, and the line runs by the year each player first joined the Chiefs. Every card shows the position, from QB to FS. One player is on the timeline from the start, his year visible. Place each new card into a gap. If you're right, the year appears; if you're wrong, the player is moved to his actual place, and you lose one of three lives.
The Chiefs began life as the Dallas Texans in the AFL before heading to Kansas City, and the deck opens in those rival-league days. Between the early champions and the recent dynasty lies a long run of good-not-great teams and coaching changes, and that middle is where you'll stumble. Defensive cards outnumber offensive ones. Players who joined for a short spell during the recent title years can be surprisingly hard to pin 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.