Toy crazes
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Order by the year each toy craze took off. Drag or tap it onto the line
Toy crazes
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Toy crazes
Toy crazes
Order by the year each toy craze took off. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
35
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
Card reveal
How the toy crazes timeline game works
Every card is a toy, gadget or collectible that swept through playgrounds and stores, and the goal is to order them by the year each craze took off. Printed beneath the name is the company or inventor behind it, or a few words on what it was. One fad is already on the line, its year showing. Each new card goes into whichever gap you choose. Choose well and its year is shown; choose badly and it moves to its real place and you drop one of three lives, though a streak of ten correct cards wins a lost one back.
The fads stretch from postwar backyard toys to blind-box collectibles, passing through talking dolls, virtual pets, trading cards and plenty of things to wear on your wrist. Several makers appear more than once, so a familiar company name tells you less than you'd hope. Holiday sellouts and schoolyard bans make many of these feel bigger, and closer together, than they were. The trap is memory: a toy you loved as a kid may have taken off well before you got your hands on it.
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.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Silly Putty Peter Hodgson
- Davy Crockett coonskin caps Disney TV merchandise
- Frisbee Wham-O
- Hula Hoop Wham-O
- Pet Rock Gary Dahl
- Mood ring Color-changing liquid crystal jewelry
- Stretch Armstrong Kenner
- Rubik's Cube Ideal Toy Company
- Cabbage Patch Kids Coleco
- Teddy Ruxpin Worlds of Wonder
- Garbage Pail Kids Topps
- Pound Puppies Tonka
- Micro Machines Galoob
- Slap bracelet Slap Wrap, by Stuart Anders
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers figures Bandai
- Magic: The Gathering Wizards of the Coast
- Tamagotchi Bandai
- Tickle Me Elmo Tyco Preschool
- Giga Pet Tiger Electronics
- Furby Tiger Electronics
- Razor scooter Razor USA
- Webkinz Ganz
- Zhu Zhu Pets Cepia
- Funko Pop Funko
- Rainbow Loom Choon's Design
- Shopkins Moose Toys
- Hatchimals Spin Master
- Fidget spinner Various makers
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