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Order these reality shows by the year each one premiered. You place all 43 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 reality TV premieres timeline game

Every card is a reality show, with the network that launched it printed under the title, and the job is to sort them by the year each one premiered. One show starts on the timeline with its year in view. Read the next card, think about where that show sits in your own TV memory, and slot it into a gap. Land it and the year turns face up; miss and it still drops into its real place, but you lose one of three lives, and ten right in a row earns a lost one back.

The deck spans the whole genre: hidden-camera and docuseries roots, the singing and survival competitions that took over prime time, cable's family and party shows, cooking and design contests, dating experiments and the streaming hits of recent seasons. Several of the biggest shows arrived within a few seasons of each other, so the middle of the line gets crowded. The network helps, since cable and streaming each had their moment, but long-running shows feel newer than they are.

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 43 cards you might be dealt, with 15 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Cops Fox
  • The Real World MTV
  • Survivor CBS
  • Big Brother CBS
  • The Amazing Race CBS
  • Fear Factor NBC
  • The Bachelor ABC
  • The Osbournes MTV
  • Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Bravo
  • The Simple Life Fox
  • The Apprentice NBC
  • Project Runway Bravo
  • The Biggest Loser NBC
  • Dancing with the Stars ABC
  • Deadliest Catch Discovery
  • Top Chef Bravo
  • America's Got Talent NBC
  • Keeping Up with the Kardashians E!
  • RuPaul's Drag Race Logo
  • Shark Tank ABC
  • 16 and Pregnant MTV
  • The Voice NBC
  • Duck Dynasty A&E
  • 90 Day Fiancé TLC
  • Love Island ITV2
  • Selling Sunset Netflix
  • Love Is Blind Netflix
  • Squid Game: The Challenge Netflix

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