Order these Tampa Bay Lightning players by the first season each played for the team. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
Lightning players make up this deck, ordered by the first season each one played in Tampa Bay. You start with one player already on the line and his year showing. New cards come with a name and his position, written as one letter, and you choose a gap for each. The correct gap reveals the year; a wrong guess still moves him to his real place and takes away one of three lives.
An expansion club on Florida's Gulf Coast, the Lightning have a short history, so the cards sit close together from the start. The opening seasons are crowded with names only longtime fans will know. Later the deck fills with the homegrown core of the championship years, and those players came up so close together that their order can feel like a coin toss. Goalies rotate through quickly, which doesn't help.
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.
































