How to play the peace treaties timeline game

Treaties, accords and peace settlements are the cards, each with a short note on what it did printed under the name. Your task is to order them by the year each was signed. One treaty begins on the timeline with its year visible. Place every new card in the gap where you think it fits. The right gap shows you the year; wrong, and the treaty still lands in its proper spot, but you're down one of three lives.

The deck reaches deep into the medieval world and runs up to modern peace deals, passing through religious wars, colonial bargains and the settlements after the world wars. The note usually names the war being ended, so each treaty is only as hard as its war. Several treaties share a city name, which is a trap. The settlements after the Great War come in a rush.

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 13 times. An average run places 17.2 cards, and 86% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

Treaty of Waitangi missed 56% of the time, usually by about 2 places
Good Friday Agreement missed 50% of the time, usually by about 2 places
Treaty of San Stefano missed 46% of the time, usually by about 5 places

The safest card is Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years’ War, placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 29 cards you might be dealt, with 1 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Treaty of Verdun Divided the Carolingian Empire in three
Treaty of Tordesillas Split the New World between Spain and Portugal
Peace of Augsburg Settled Catholic-Lutheran conflict in the Empire
Peace of Westphalia Ended the Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Utrecht Ended the War of the Spanish Succession
Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years’ War Ended the Seven Years' War
Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War Ended the American Revolutionary War
Louisiana Purchase Treaty Sold French Louisiana to the United States
Treaty of Ghent Ended the War of 1812
Congress of Vienna Reordered Europe after Napoleon
Treaty of Waitangi Bound British and Maori in New Zealand
Treaty of Nanking Ended the First Opium War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Kanagawa Opened Japan to American trade
Treaty of Paris ending the Crimean War Ended the Crimean War
Treaty of Frankfurt Ended the Franco-Prussian War
Treaty of San Stefano Ended a Russo-Turkish War
Treaty of Portsmouth Ended the Russo-Japanese War
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Took Russia out of World War I
Treaty of Versailles Ended World War I with Germany
Treaty of Sevres Partitioned the Ottoman Empire
Treaty of Trianon Redrew Hungary's borders after the war
Treaty of Lausanne Fixed the borders of modern Turkey
Munich Agreement Ceded the Sudetenland to Germany
Paris Peace Accords Ended U.S. combat in Vietnam
Camp David Accords Framed Egypt-Israel peace
Oslo Accords Set up Israeli-Palestinian self-rule
Dayton Agreement Ended the Bosnian War