Playing the Rihanna milestones timeline

From her first audition in Barbados through hit albums, film roles, a beauty empire and a halftime show, the cards here are Rihanna's career moments, ordered by year. A detail line under each one names a single, a role or the business behind it. The game starts you off with one moment on the line and its year shown. Place every new card in the gap where you think it falls. If you're right the year appears. If not, the card moves to where it should be, and you lose one of three lives.

Her music cards come thick and fast in the early part of the deck, when a new album arrived almost every year. After that the cards shift toward fashion and beauty launches, honors from her home country, acting jobs and charity work. Albums are the easiest anchors, since the detail line names their big singles. The business launches are the trap: the brands are so familiar that it's hard to remember which came first, or how long after her last album they arrived.

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 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Auditions for producer Evan Rogers in Barbados A school trio impresses a visiting producer
Signs with Def Jam after auditioning for Jay-Z L.A. Reid says don't let her leave
Releases Pon de Replay A dancehall-pop single from Barbados
Releases A Girl Like Me SOS and Unfaithful
Wins a Grammy for Umbrella Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Jay-Z
Releases Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded Disturbia and Take a Bow
Releases Rated R A darker record with Rude Boy
Teams with Eminem on Love the Way You Lie Seven weeks atop the Hot 100
Plays a record run at London's O2 Arena Ten sold-out shows on the Loud Tour
Releases Talk That Talk We Found Love with Calvin Harris
Founds the Clara Lionel Foundation A charity named for her grandparents
Acts in Battleship Plays Petty Officer Cora Raikes
Launches the Diamonds World Tour Touring behind Unapologetic
Named creative director of Puma Oversees the women's line
Releases FourFiveSeconds With Kanye West and Paul McCartney
Voices Tip in the animated film Home DreamWorks comedy with Jim Parsons
Receives the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs Performs medleys of her hits
Named Harvard's Humanitarian of the Year Honored for her charity work
Launches Fenty Beauty Inclusive makeup with LVMH
Stars in Ocean's 8 An all-female heist crew
Named an ambassador of Barbados A diplomatic role for her home country
Launches the Fenty fashion house with LVMH A luxury label in Paris
Launches Fenty Skin A gender-neutral skin care line
Declared a National Hero of Barbados Honored as the island becomes a republic
Welcomes a son with ASAP Rocky Becomes a mother
Headlines the Super Bowl halftime show in Glendale Reveals a pregnancy onstage
Performs Lift Me Up at the Oscars An Oscar-nominated Wakanda Forever ballad
Launches Fenty Hair Hair care for every texture