Time Person of the Year
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Time Person of the Year
Order by the year Time magazine named each honoree its Person of the Year. You place all 40 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 Time Person of the Year timeline game
Each card is someone, or something, that Time magazine named its Person of the Year, with a line under the name on why. Sort them by the year of the honor. One honoree begins on the timeline with its year showing. Then you take each card and slot it where you think it falls. A good placement reveals the year; a poor one still moves the card to its true spot but uses up one of your three lives. String ten good placements together and you earn a lost life back.
The honorees run from the magazine's first picks to the present, taking in presidents, dictators, activists, tech founders and a few abstract choices like groups, machines and ideas. Several people were chosen more than once, and the line under the name tells you which time the card means. Election winners recur often, so knowing who won what is a strong guide. The non-human and collective honorees are the ones most likely to throw you.
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 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Charles Lindbergh Flew the Spirit of St. Louis
- Mahatma Gandhi Led the Salt March
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Won the White House in a landslide
- Adolf Hitler German dictator
- Joseph Stalin Soviet leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
- Harry S. Truman Authorized the atomic bombings
- Queen Elizabeth II Acceded to the British throne
- The Hungarian Freedom Fighter Rose up against Soviet rule
- John F. Kennedy President in the year of the Bay of Pigs
- Borman, Lovell and Anders Astronauts who orbited the Moon
- Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger Visited China and Moscow
- Anwar Sadat Egyptian president who went to Israel
- Ayatollah Khomeini Led Iran's revolution
- The Computer Named Machine of the Year
- Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost and perestroika
- Endangered Earth Named Planet of the Year
- Jeff Bezos Founder of Amazon.com
- George W. Bush Won a disputed election
- The Good Samaritans Bono, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates
- You Content creators on the web
- Mark Zuckerberg Founder of Facebook
- Pope Francis Argentine pontiff
- Angela Merkel German chancellor
- The Silence Breakers Voices of the MeToo movement
- Greta Thunberg Swedish climate activist
- Taylor Swift Singer on the Eras Tour
- Donald Trump (vs. Kamala Harris) Elected US president
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