Political scandals
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Political scandals
Order these scandals by the year each one broke publicly. You place all 41 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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How to play the Political Scandals timeline game
Every card is a political scandal that shook a government somewhere in the world, from bribery and secret deals to leaks, cover-ups and affairs. The country or city is printed below the name. You place each by the year it broke publicly, which can be well after the wrongdoing began. One scandal is already on the line with its year showing. Choose a gap for each new card. Get it right and the year is revealed; get it wrong and the card still drops into its proper spot, but one of your three lives goes with it.
The deck reaches from the early years of the American republic to recent leaks of offshore files, with stops in London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Ottawa, Seoul and more. American cards are plentiful, so it pays to remember which president or senator was caught up in each. Scandals often surface long after the deeds behind them, which can make a story feel older or newer than it really is.
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.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 41 cards you might be dealt, with 13 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- XYZ Affair France and United States
- Tweed Ring New York City
- Credit Mobilier scandal United States
- Panama scandals France
- Teapot Dome Wyoming and Washington, D.C.
- Stavisky affair France
- Profumo affair United Kingdom
- Watergate Washington, D.C.
- Spiro Agnew resigns United States
- Lockheed bribery scandals Japan, Netherlands and beyond
- Abscam United States
- Iran-Contra affair United States
- Gary Hart's Monkey Business United States
- Recruit scandal Japan
- Keating Five United States
- Tangentopoli Italy
- Cash-for-questions affair United Kingdom
- Clinton-Lewinsky scandal Washington, D.C.
- Sponsorship scandal Canada
- Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal Washington, D.C.
- Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal New York
- Blagojevich corruption scandal Illinois
- Anthony Weiner sexting scandal New York
- Operation Car Wash Brazil
- Panama Papers Worldwide
- Choi Soon-sil gate South Korea
- Facebook and Cambridge Analytica United Kingdom and United States
- Ibiza affair Austria
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