Desperate Housewives plot events

Put these Desperate Housewives moments in the order they happen in the story, from Season 1 to Season 8. Flashbacks go where they fall in the timeline, not where they air. You place all 68 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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Put these Desperate Housewives moments in the order they happen in the story, from Season 1 to Season 8. Flashbacks go where they fall in the timeline, not where they air. Drag or tap it onto the line
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How to play the Desperate Housewives plot order game

Each card is a moment from Desperate Housewives, and the goal is to rebuild the order they happen in the story, from Mary Alice's shocking suicide to the day the four friends leave Wisteria Lane. Nothing but the event is printed on the card, though a scene the show tells out of order is marked Flashback. One card starts on the line. Slot each new card before, after or between the ones already down. A good call reveals its place; a bad one still moves the card to its proper spot, but costs one of your three lives.

Follow each woman's marriages. Bree goes from Rex to Orson to dating, Gabrielle swaps Carlos for Victor and back, and Susan bounces between Mike, Karl and Ian. Ask which neighbor holds the dark secret, from the Youngs and the Applewhites to Dave, the Bolens and Paul. The five year jump splits the deck neatly: once Lynette's twins are teenagers and Gabrielle has daughters, you are past it. Track who still lives on the lane, since Edie, Karl and Mike all leave for good.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 68 cards you might be dealt, with 40 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Deirdre, a drug addict, sells her baby to Angela and Todd Forrest Flashback
  • Mary Alice Young shoots herself after reading a blackmail note
  • A drunk Andrew runs over Carlos's mother, Juanita
  • Mike is arrested for Martha Huber's murder
  • Gabrielle learns she is pregnant after Carlos tampered with her pills
  • Mike tells Susan he is Zach's biological father
  • Gabrielle miscarries after falling down stairs fleeing Caleb
  • Edie burns Susan's house down in revenge
  • Orson runs Mike over with his car and drives off
  • Mike wakes from his coma
  • Orson falls off the hospital roof while fighting Mike
  • Mrs. McCluskey's husband is found frozen in her basement
  • Susan learns she is pregnant with Mike's baby
  • Gabrielle knocks Victor overboard during a boat trip
  • The four friends cut off Edie, who leaves Wisteria Lane
  • Susan's car crash kills Lila Dash and her daughter Paige Flashback
  • Lynette learns Porter is sleeping with his friend's mother, Anne
  • Edie is electrocuted after crashing into a power pole
  • Dave spares M.J. after seeing his own daughter's face
  • Susan accidentally shoots Katherine with the Bolens' gun
  • A small plane crashes into the lane's Christmas festival
  • Bree learns Sam Allen is Rex's son
  • Carlos learns Juanita was switched at birth
  • A riot over Paul's halfway house tramples Susan
  • Carlos learns Andrew killed his mother
  • Carlos kills Gabrielle's stepfather, Alejandro, with a candlestick
  • Bree learns Orson sent the letters and killed Chuck
  • Bree is arrested for Alejandro's murder

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