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Pandemics & epidemics

Order these outbreaks by the year they began. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How to play the pandemics timeline game

Outbreaks are the subject here: each card is a pandemic or epidemic, with a note on what it was and where it struck. You're ordering them by the year each outbreak began. One outbreak is placed on the timeline first with its year showing. For every new card, pick the gap where it fits. If it fits, the year appears; a wrong one still moves the card to its true place and costs you one of three lives.

The deck moves from plagues of the ancient world through medieval and early modern outbreaks to the flu and coronavirus pandemics of modern times. Numbered cholera waves look easy to order, but other outbreaks slot in between them. The flu cards look alike, so the note under each one is worth reading. The modern end is crowded, with new viruses emerging in quick succession.

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 17 times. An average run places 6.8 cards, and 69% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Hong Kong flu missed 67% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Russian flu missed 63% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Asian flu missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Antonine Plague Smallpox or measles swept the Roman Empire
  • Plague of Cyprian Ravaged the Roman Empire during a crisis
  • Plague of Justinian Struck the Byzantine Empire, tens of millions dead
  • Black Death Killed a third of Europe
  • Italian Plague Devastated northern Italian cities
  • Great Plague of London Killed roughly a quarter of London
  • Great Plague of Marseille Last major French bubonic outbreak
  • Russian Plague Deadly outbreak centered on Moscow
  • First cholera pandemic Spread from the Ganges delta across Asia
  • Second cholera pandemic Reached Europe and North America
  • Third cholera pandemic Deadliest cholera wave of the century
  • Third plague pandemic Bubonic plague from Yunnan, China
  • Fourth cholera pandemic Spread along trade and pilgrimage routes
  • Fifth cholera pandemic Hit Europe, Asia, and South America
  • Russian flu Early global influenza pandemic
  • Sixth cholera pandemic Heavy toll across India and the Middle East
  • Spanish flu Influenza killed tens of millions worldwide
  • Asian flu H2N2 influenza emerged in East Asia
  • Seventh cholera pandemic Began in Indonesia, still ongoing
  • Hong Kong flu H3N2 influenza pandemic
  • HIV/AIDS Global epidemic recognized among cases in the US
  • SARS Coronavirus outbreak from southern China
  • Swine flu H1N1 pandemic emerged in Mexico
  • MERS Coronavirus first identified in Saudi Arabia
  • West African Ebola epidemic Largest Ebola outbreak in history
  • Zika virus epidemic Spread through the Americas via mosquitoes
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic emerged in Wuhan
  • Mpox outbreak Global spread of the virus formerly called monkeypox

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