Sporting milestones
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Sporting milestones
Order by the year it happened. You place all 59 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
59
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the sporting milestones timeline game works
Think of this deck as a run through sport's landmark moments: inaugural tournaments, record runs, famous fights and upsets. You sort them by the year they happened. A short line under each title gives the place, sport or team involved. One moment starts on the timeline with its year shown. Put each new card where you think it fits; correct placements reveal the year, and wrong ones still land in the right spot but cost one of your three lives.
The deck hops between horse racing, tennis, football, boxing, athletics, golf, basketball and more, reaching from the founding of sport's oldest events to very recent records. That hopping is the hard part, since you have to weigh a boxing night against a tennis final. Watch for cards from the same athlete's career, and use the location line, which can quietly date an Olympic moment.
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 10 times. An average run places 5.2 cards, and 63% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 59 cards you might be dealt, with 31 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- First Kentucky Derby Louisville
- First Stanley Cup Montreal
- First Tour de France France
- First Ryder Cup Worcester, Massachusetts
- First FIFA World Cup Uruguay
- Joe Louis beats Max Schmeling New York
- Don Bradman's final Test innings The Oval
- Roger Bannister runs a sub-four-minute mile Oxford
- Arnold Palmer wins his first Masters Augusta
- Pelé's first World Cup Sweden
- First Super Bowl Green Bay vs Kansas City
- Fight of the Century Ali vs Frazier
- Rumble in the Jungle Ali vs Foreman
- Nadia's Montreal floor routine Gymnastics
- Miracle on Ice Lake Placid
- Maradona's Hand of God Mexico City
- Ben Johnson stripped of gold Seoul
- Jordan's shot over Ehlo Cleveland
- The Dream Team Barcelona
- Lance Armstrong's first Tour win France
- Schumacher's seventh title Formula One
- Phelps wins eight golds Beijing
- Usain Bolt runs 9.58 Berlin
- Andy Murray's first Wimbledon London
- The Cubs break the curse Chicago
- Serena Williams' 23rd Grand Slam Melbourne
- Hamilton equals Schumacher's seven titles Formula One
- Djokovic's 24th Grand Slam New York
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