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Pop albums
Order by year of release. You place all 72 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
72
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the pop albums timeline game
Here every card is a pop album, the artist named under its title, and you're ordering them by release year. One record is on the timeline before you start, year showing. Each new card asks a simple question: where does it go among the albums already down? Choose the right gap and the year pops up. Choose the wrong one and the album still lands in its true spot, but you've used one of three lives.
The deck moves through singer-songwriter pop, disco-era hitmakers, the MTV superstars, the teen-pop boom and every turn of the streaming era. Many stars have several albums here, so you'll often be ordering one artist's records against each other. The busiest stretch is the recent one, where releases crowd together. A compilation can sit beside the studio albums, and it's dated by when it came out, not when its songs were hits.
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.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 68 times. An average run places 8.3 cards, and 74% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Tapestry missed 86% of the time, usually by about 4 places
- Come On Over missed 70% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Control missed 60% of the time, usually by a single place
The safest card is Renaissance, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 72 cards you might be dealt, with 44 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Tapestry Carole King
- Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees
- Rio Duran Duran
- She's So Unusual Cyndi Lauper
- Hunting High and Low a-ha
- Control Janet Jackson
- Faith George Michael
- The Immaculate Collection Madonna
- Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette
- Ray of Light Madonna
- Millennium Backstreet Boys
- Fever Kylie Minogue
- Let Go Avril Lavigne
- Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Gwen Stefani
- Good Girl Gone Bad Rihanna
- The E.N.D. The Black Eyed Peas
- Born This Way Lady Gaga
- Red Taylor Swift
- 25 Adele
- Purpose Justin Bieber
- Camila Camila Cabello
- Fine Line Harry Styles
- When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish
- Positions Ariana Grande
- Sour Olivia Rodrigo
- Renaissance Beyoncé
- Guts Olivia Rodrigo
- Eternal Sunshine Ariana Grande
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