Olympic host cities
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Order by the year each city first hosted the Games. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Olympic host cities
Order by the year each city first hosted the Games. You place all 43 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
43
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the Olympic host cities timeline game
The cards are cities that have hosted the Olympics, each labeled Summer or Winter Games along with the host country. You sort the cities by the year each one first hosted. One host starts on the timeline with its year shown. Slot every new city into a gap among those already placed. If you're right the year appears; if not, the city still moves to its real spot, but you lose one of three lives.
Cities that hosted more than once count only for their first Games, which pulls some famous names further back than you'd expect. The country line is worth a look for nations that have since changed names or no longer exist. Mixing Summer and Winter hosts crowds the middle of the deck, and small mountain resorts are usually the hardest cards to place.
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.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 14 times. An average run places 5.9 cards, and 66% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Stockholm missed 100% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Paris missed 80% of the time, usually by about 4 places
- Moscow missed 40% of the time, usually by about 2 places
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 43 cards you might be dealt, with 15 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Athens Summer Games · Greece
- Paris Summer Games · France
- London Summer Games · United Kingdom
- Stockholm Summer Games · Sweden
- Chamonix Winter Games · France
- Amsterdam Summer Games · Netherlands
- Lake Placid Winter Games · United States
- Los Angeles Summer Games · United States
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games · Germany
- Helsinki Summer Games · Finland
- Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games · Italy
- Melbourne Summer Games · Australia
- Squaw Valley Winter Games · United States
- Innsbruck Winter Games · Austria
- Grenoble Winter Games · France
- Munich Summer Games · West Germany
- Sapporo Winter Games · Japan
- Moscow Summer Games · Soviet Union
- Sarajevo Winter Games · Yugoslavia
- Seoul Summer Games · South Korea
- Albertville Winter Games · France
- Lillehammer Winter Games · Norway
- Atlanta Summer Games · United States
- Sydney Summer Games · Australia
- Salt Lake City Winter Games · United States
- Beijing Summer Games · China
- Vancouver Winter Games · Canada
- Rio de Janeiro Summer Games · Brazil
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