Snack food debuts

Order these snack foods by the year each was introduced. You place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Snack food debuts
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Order these snack foods by the year each was introduced. Drag or tap it onto the line
Snacks
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Snacks
26
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
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How the snack food timeline game works

Crackers, pretzels, chips, puffs and popcorn: every card is a snack food with a quick description printed below. Your job is to order them by the year each was introduced. One snack starts on the timeline with its year showing. Choose a gap for each new card among the snacks already placed. A placement that holds reveals the year; wrong, and the snack still lands in its true spot, but you lose one of three lives.

Many of these have been in the grocery aisle for generations, so it's easy to assume they all date from the same time. They don't. The chip aisle gets crowded in the middle of the line, with several launches close together. A spin-off always arrives after the snack it's based on, which helps with pairs, and spicy and flavored versions are worth a second look.

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 16 times. An average run places 3.6 cards, and 54% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Triscuit missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Combos missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Flamin' Hot Cheetos missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Cracker Jack Caramel popcorn and peanuts with a prize
  • Triscuit Woven shredded-wheat cracker
  • Planters Peanuts Roasted peanuts under Mr. Peanut
  • Rold Gold Pretzel brand
  • Cheez-It Baked cheese cracker square
  • Slim Jim Meat snack stick
  • Fritos Fried corn chips
  • Lay's Potato chip brand
  • Ritz Crackers Buttery round cracker
  • Wheat Thins Thin baked wheat cracker
  • Cheetos Crunchy cheese-flavored corn puffs
  • Ruffles Ridged potato chips
  • Goldfish Smiling fish-shaped cheese crackers
  • Bugles Cone-shaped corn snack
  • Doritos Seasoned tortilla chips
  • Pringles Stackable chips in a can
  • Funyuns Onion-flavored corn rings
  • Andy Capp's Hot Fries Cayenne corn-and-potato fries
  • Munchos Airy potato crisps
  • Combos Filled cracker or pretzel bites
  • Tostitos Restaurant-style tortilla chips
  • Smartfood White cheddar popcorn
  • Pirate's Booty Puffed rice-and-corn cheese snack
  • Flamin' Hot Cheetos Spicy chili-lime Cheetos
  • Sun Chips Multigrain wavy chips
  • Takis Rolled spicy tortilla chips

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