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Order by the year each single was released. You place all 249 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
249
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the songs timeline game works
These cards are hit singles, each showing the artist under the song title, and you place them by release year. The timeline starts with one song on it, its year visible. Every new card goes into a gap you choose, earlier or later than the songs already placed. Pick correctly and the year appears beside it; pick wrong and the song jumps to its true position, taking one of three lives.
Expect everything from early rock and roll and the British Invasion through disco, new wave, grunge, Britpop, hip-hop and EDM to recent chart-toppers. Because the deck is so big, you'll meet songs you can hum but can't date. The artist name is worth reading, though a one-hit wonder gives you nothing else to go on. Songs that came back through movies, TV or social media are the ones that most often land in the wrong place.
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 1,338 times. An average run places 6.9 cards, and 70% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Young Folks missed 64% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Love to Love You Baby missed 62% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Justified & Ancient missed 60% of the time, usually by about 3 places
The safest card is Espresso, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 249 cards you might be dealt, with 221 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Rock Around the Clock Bill Haley & His Comets
- Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran
- My Girl The Temptations
- A Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough Diana Ross
- Lean on Me Bill Withers
- Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
- Good Times Chic
- Beat It Michael Jackson
- Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Wham!
- Bizarre Love Triangle New Order
- With or Without You U2
- Justified & Ancient The KLF
- Loser Beck
- Killing Me Softly With His Song Fugees
- Doo Wop (That Thing) Lauryn Hill
- Yellow Coldplay
- Maps Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Gold Digger Kanye West
- Poker Face Lady Gaga
- Pumped Up Kicks Foster the People
- Thrift Shop Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
- Stay With Me Sam Smith
- One Dance Drake
- Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi
- Don't Start Now Dua Lipa
- Good 4 U Olivia Rodrigo
- Lose Control Teddy Swims
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