How to play The Sopranos plot order game

Each card is a moment from The Sopranos, and the task is to put them back in the order they happen in the story across all six seasons. The season is printed under each card. One moment sits on the line from the start. Place every new card before, after or between the ones already there. A good call reveals its position; a wrong one moves the card to the right spot and costs one of your three lives.

The season label helps, but the series often runs a long arc beside smaller stories, so a killing and a family argument from the same year can be tricky to separate. The last season is long and split into two halves, and both are labelled as one season here, so that stretch is where many players slip. The show tells its story mostly in a straight line, so think in terms of cause and effect. It helps to track who is still alive and who is running the family at each point.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 64 cards you might be dealt, with 36 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Tony blacks out at a barbecue and starts therapy with Dr. Melfi Season 1
Jackie Aprile dies of cancer and Junior is named boss Season 1
A.J. lets slip to Livia that Tony is seeing a psychiatrist Season 1
Junior agrees to have Tony killed Season 1
Tony confronts Livia in the hospital after learning she ordered the hit Season 1
Richie Aprile runs over Beansie and leaves him paralyzed Season 2
Davey Scatino runs up a huge debt at Tony's card game Season 2
Christopher flatlines and claims he saw Hell Season 2
Janice shoots Richie dead after he punches her Season 2
Livia dies in her sleep Season 3
Dr. Melfi is attacked and raped in a parking garage Season 3
A psychiatrist tells Carmela to leave Tony Season 3
Paulie and Christopher get lost in the snowy Pine Barrens Season 3
Vito kills Jackie Jr. in a housing project Season 3
Bobby's wife Karen dies in a car crash Season 4
Tony learns that Gloria Trillo has killed herself Season 4
Pie-O-My dies in a stable fire Season 4
Christopher's family holds an intervention and sends him to rehab Season 4
Dr. Melfi turns Tony down when he asks her out Season 5
Tony sets up Feech La Manna to be sent back to prison Season 5
Tony Blundetto shoots Joey Peeps outside a brothel Season 5
Silvio kills Adriana in the woods Season 5
Johnny Sack is arrested and Tony flees through the snow Season 5
A confused Junior shoots Tony in the stomach Season 6
Vito is spotted dancing at a gay club Season 6
Johnny Sack dies of cancer in a prison hospital Season 6
Tony suffocates Christopher after a car crash Season 6
Bobby is gunned down in a model train store Season 6