Order by the year each player joined the New Orleans Saints. 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.
Saints players are the cards, and you're placing each by the year he first joined New Orleans. Each card carries a position abbreviation. When the game starts, one player is already on the line, his year in plain sight. Pick a gap for each card that follows. Hit it and the year shows; miss and the player still moves into his true slot, at the cost of one of your three lives.
New Orleans arrived as an expansion team and spent a long time searching for a winner, so the early part of the deck is full of players from tough seasons. The mood changes later, when the club found its footing with a high-powered passing offense and a title. Running backs lead the labels, with receivers and linebackers next. The early cards are the hardest, since few of those players are widely remembered.
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.