World's tallest building over time
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World's tallest building over time
Order these record-holders by the year each became the world's tallest building. You place all 25 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
25
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3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the world's tallest building timeline game
Every building in this deck once held the title of tallest in the world, and each card prints its city underneath. You're ordering them by the year each one took that title. One record holder starts on the timeline with its year showing. For every new card, choose the gap where it fits. A sound placement brings up the year; get it wrong and it still lands in its true place, costing you one of three lives.
Cathedral spires and church towers held the record long before office towers took over. The skyscraper race was fierce, with the title changing hands several times in a short span, sometimes in the same year. Remember the card marks when a building became the tallest, which for some churches came long after construction began.
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 17 times. An average run places 4 cards, and 57% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Equitable Life Building missed 100% of the time, usually by about 2 places
- Tribune Building missed 100% of the time, usually by a single place
- Willis Tower missed 83% of the time, usually by a single place
What's in the deck
Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Lincoln Cathedral Lincoln, England
- St. Mary's Church Stralsund Stralsund, Germany
- Strasbourg Cathedral Strasbourg, France
- Equitable Life Building New York City
- Tribune Building New York City
- St. Nikolai Hamburg Hamburg, Germany
- Rouen Cathedral Rouen, France
- Cologne Cathedral Cologne, Germany
- Washington Monument Washington, D.C.
- Eiffel Tower Paris, France
- New York World Building New York City
- Manhattan Life Insurance Building New York City
- Park Row Building New York City
- Philadelphia City Hall Philadelphia, United States
- Singer Building New York City
- Metropolitan Life Tower New York City
- Woolworth Building New York City
- Bank of Manhattan Trust Building New York City
- Chrysler Building New York City
- Empire State Building New York City
- World Trade Center North Tower New York City
- Willis Tower Chicago, United States
- Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Taipei 101 Taipei, Taiwan
- Burj Khalifa Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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