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Inventions & launches

Order by the year each thing arrived. You get one card and a line of cards already in place — slot it where it belongs. Three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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84
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
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How Inventions & launches is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 84 cards you could be dealt, plus 56 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Printing press Johannes Gutenberg
  • Spinning jenny James Hargreaves
  • Battery Alessandro Volta
  • Sewing machine Elias Howe
  • Telephone Alexander Graham Bell
  • Benz Patent-Motorwagen Karl Benz
  • Radio transmission Guglielmo Marconi
  • Bakelite Leo Baekeland
  • Insulin isolated Banting & Best
  • Nylon DuPont
  • Jet aircraft Heinkel He 178
  • Transistor Bell Labs
  • Velcro George de Mestral
  • Computer mouse Douglas Engelbart
  • Email with the @ sign Ray Tomlinson
  • Rubik's Cube Ernő Rubik
  • MRI scanner Damadian & Lauterbur
  • Compact disc player Sony CDP-101
  • World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee's proposal
  • GPS becomes fully operational US Department of Defense
  • Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 standard
  • Wikipedia Wales & Sanger
  • Blu-ray Sony consortium
  • Android Open Handset Alliance
  • iPad Apple
  • Tesla Model S Tesla
  • TikTok ByteDance
  • AlphaFold protein structures DeepMind

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