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Sci-fi & fantasy films

Order by year of release. You place all 80 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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release years and dates
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How the sci-fi and fantasy films timeline game works

Each card is a science fiction or fantasy film, and you put them in order by year of release. The director's name is printed under each title. A single film is already down when you begin, its year shown. Every new card goes into a gap you pick among the films already placed. A correct call reveals the year; a wrong one still sends the film to its true spot but costs one of your three lives.

Expect everything from silent visions of the future and atomic-age adventures to space operas, cyberpunk and slow, cerebral science fiction. Special effects are a poor guide, since some old films were remarkably ambitious and some newer ones are deliberately low-tech. Directors with several cards let you build small chains, and sequels made long after their originals are easy to misjudge.

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 119 times. An average run places 8 cards, and 73% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • The Man Who Fell to Earth missed 69% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Barbarella missed 62% of the time, usually by about 4 places
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still missed 57% of the time, usually by about 2 places

The safest card is Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 80 cards you might be dealt, with 52 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Metropolis Fritz Lang
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still Robert Wise
  • The Time Machine George Pal
  • Barbarella Roger Vadim
  • Westworld Michael Crichton
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg
  • Mad Max George Miller
  • Blade Runner Ridley Scott
  • The Dark Crystal Jim Henson
  • Dune (Lynch) David Lynch
  • Back to the Future Robert Zemeckis
  • RoboCop Paul Verhoeven
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day James Cameron
  • Ghost in the Shell Mamoru Oshii
  • Contact Robert Zemeckis
  • Men in Black Barry Sonnenfeld
  • The Iron Giant Brad Bird
  • Minority Report Steven Spielberg
  • Serenity Joss Whedon
  • WALL-E Andrew Stanton
  • Moon Duncan Jones
  • Gravity Alfonso Cuarón
  • Snowpiercer Bong Joon-ho
  • Ex Machina Alex Garland
  • The Martian Ridley Scott
  • Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve
  • Dune (Villeneuve) Denis Villeneuve
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Sony Animation

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