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Famous Super Bowl commercials

Order by the calendar year of the Super Bowl game each commercial aired during. You place all 30 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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Order by the calendar year of the Super Bowl game each commercial aired during. Drag or tap it onto the line
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How to play the Super Bowl commercials timeline

Every card is a famous Super Bowl commercial, and you order them by the calendar year of the game they aired during. The brand, sometimes with the star or director, is printed under the ad's title. One ad starts on the line, its year visible. For each new card, choose the gap you think is right. Correct gaps show the year; wrong ones still send the ad to its proper slot and cost you one of your three lives.

The ads trace the game's rise into the biggest showcase in advertising, with celebrity spots, talking animals, tearjerkers and plenty of nostalgia along the way. Some brands return again and again, so the name under the title only narrows things down. Keep in mind that the game is played early in the calendar year, after the season it ends. Ads that replayed for years afterward can feel more recent than the game they first aired in.

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 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Hey Kid, Catch Coca-Cola, with Mean Joe Greene
  • Big Brother and the hammer thrower Apple Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott
  • Lemmings Apple Macintosh Office
  • Bud Bowl Budweiser vs. Bud Light bottles
  • Cindy Crawford at the vending machine Pepsi
  • The Showdown McDonald's, Larry Bird vs. Michael Jordan
  • Bud, Weis, Er Budweiser frogs
  • When I Grow Up Monster.com
  • Cat Herders EDS
  • Wasted 2 Million E-Trade, with a dancing chimp
  • If You Leave Me Now Pets.com sock puppet
  • Clydesdale Respect Budweiser, a bow to Manhattan
  • Terry Tate: Office Linebacker Reebok
  • Cast Away FedEx
  • Imported from Detroit Chrysler 200, with Eminem
  • The Force Volkswagen Passat
  • Halftime in America Chrysler, with Clint Eastwood
  • So God Made a Farmer Ram Trucks, voice of Paul Harvey
  • Puppy Love Budweiser
  • Lost Dog Budweiser
  • Like a Girl Always
  • Puppy Monkey Baby Mountain Dew Kickstart
  • Ultrasound Doritos
  • It's a Tide Ad Tide, with David Harbour
  • Alexa Loses Her Voice Amazon Echo
  • Groundhog Day Jeep Gladiator, with Bill Murray
  • Smaht Pahk Hyundai Sonata
  • Loretta Google

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