Things by temperature
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Things by temperature
Order by temperature, coldest first. You place all 29 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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How the temperature ranking game works
Each card is something with a well-known temperature: a substance boiling or melting, a place on Earth or in space, or an everyday setting like a kitchen or a sauna. You put them in order in degrees Celsius, coldest first, and below zero counts. The line under each name explains what is being measured. One card starts on the line with its temperature showing. Slot each new card into a gap. If you're right the temperature appears; if not, it still moves to its true place and you lose one of three lives.
The cold end is full of gases that only turn liquid in extreme conditions, and they sit closer together than you might think. Around everyday life the steps are small and familiar, so the middle rewards careful thinking about your own kitchen and body. Higher up, molten metals, volcanoes and planets jump past each other in surprising ways. At the very top, the numbers get truly enormous. Watch the small print too, since a planet's figure is an average while a place on Earth is its record.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 29 cards you might be dealt, with 1 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Absolute zero Zero kelvin
- Liquid hydrogen Boiling point
- Surface of Pluto Average
- Liquid nitrogen Boiling point
- Liquid oxygen Boiling point
- Coldest temperature recorded on Earth Vostok Station, Antarctica
- Dry ice Turns straight from solid to gas
- Oymyakon's record low Siberian village, its official record
- Mercury freezes The liquid metal turns solid
- Home freezer Recommended setting
- Water freezes At sea level
- Room temperature The conventional figure
- Human body Normal temperature
- Hottest temperature recorded on Earth Death Valley, California
- Sauna Typical spa setting
- Water boils At sea level
- Oven baking a cake Moderate oven, gas mark 4
- Paper catches fire Without a flame, from heat alone
- Lead melts The soft metal turns liquid
- Surface of Venus Average
- Neapolitan pizza oven Wood-fired, by the official rules
- Lava Typical erupting lava
- Iron melts The pure metal turns liquid
- Light bulb filament Old-style incandescent bulb, switched on
- Tungsten melts The metal inside old light bulbs
- Earth's inner core At its outer edge, estimated
- Surface of the Sun The visible surface
- Lightning bolt The air around the flash
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