Soft drink brands

Order these soft drinks by the year each was introduced. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Soft drink brands
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Order these soft drinks by the year each was introduced. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Soft Drinks
28
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3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the soft drink brands timeline game works

Colas, root beers, ginger ales, sports drinks and energy drinks: each card is a soft drink brand, with a short note on where it came from. You're ordering them by the year each drink was introduced. One brand starts on the timeline with its year showing. Drop every new card into the gap you think is right. Right first time, and the year appears; a wrong one still puts the drink in its true place and costs one of three lives.

Soda fountain classics, regional favorites, diet colas and caffeine-loaded newcomers all share the line. Big companies often launched rivals to each other's hits, and the note on the card sometimes gives that away, so read it closely. Diet and high-caffeine drinks blur together, and regional brands can be far older than their low profile suggests.

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 20 times. An average run places 4 cards, and 58% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Faygo missed 67% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Hires Root Beer missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Dr Pepper missed 60% of the time, usually by a single place

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Schweppes Carbonated mineral water from Geneva founder Jacob Schweppe
  • Vernors Ginger soda aged in Detroit
  • Hires Root Beer Root beer introduced at the Philadelphia Centennial
  • Dr Pepper 23-flavor soda from Waco, Texas
  • Coca-Cola Atlanta cola created by John Pemberton
  • Pepsi North Carolina cola by Caleb Bradham
  • A&W Root Beer Root beer stand launched in Lodi, California
  • 7 Up Lemon-lime soda originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda
  • Canada Dry Ginger ale from Toronto
  • Fanta Orange soda developed in wartime Germany
  • Sprite Coca-Cola's lemon-lime answer to 7 Up
  • Mountain Dew Citrus soda born in Tennessee
  • Fresca Grapefruit citrus soda from Coca-Cola
  • Tab Coca-Cola's first diet cola
  • Diet Coke Coca-Cola's low-calorie flagship
  • Mello Yello High-caffeine citrus soda
  • Sunkist Orange soda licensing the citrus brand
  • RC Cola Royal Crown cola from Georgia
  • Squirt Grapefruit soda from Phoenix
  • Crush Orange soda brand
  • Barq's Root beer from Biloxi, Mississippi
  • Faygo Detroit soda from the Feigenson brothers
  • Jolt Cola High-caffeine cola
  • Surge Citrus soda from Coca-Cola
  • Red Bull Austrian energy drink
  • Gatorade Sports drink developed at the University of Florida
  • Snapple Fruit and tea beverages from New York
  • Shasta West Coast soda brand

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