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Order by the year each toy first went on sale. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Order by the year each toy first went on sale. You place all 49 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
49
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
Card reveal
How to play the toys timeline game
Every card is a toy that became a household name: dolls, building sets, action figures, crazes and electronic pets. You place each by the year it first went on sale, and the maker or inventor is printed under the name. A single toy starts on the timeline with its year showing. Choose a gap for every new card. A sound placement brings up the year; wrong, and the toy still moves to where it truly belongs, but one of your three lives is gone.
The deck stretches from the early days of mass-produced playthings to playground fads of the smartphone age. Postwar classics come thick and fast, and the Saturday-morning cartoon tie-ins pack together too. Fads are tricky because the moment you remember a craze is often well after it first appeared. Toys that still sit on store shelves today can be far older than they look.
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 46 times. An average run places 3.6 cards, and 55% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Erector Set missed 90% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- Twister missed 80% of the time, usually by a single place
- Nerf ball missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 49 cards you might be dealt, with 21 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Teddy bear Morris Michtom & Steiff
- Crayola crayons Binney & Smith
- Tinkertoy Charles Pajeau
- Radio Flyer wagon Radio Flyer
- View-Master Sawyer's
- Slinky Richard James
- Magic 8-Ball Alabe Crafts
- Matchbox cars Lesney Products
- Hula hoop Wham-O
- LEGO brick The LEGO Group
- Etch A Sketch Ohio Art
- Easy-Bake Oven Kenner
- Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots Marx Toys
- Spirograph Denys Fisher
- Hot Wheels Mattel
- Weebles Hasbro
- Simon Milton Bradley
- Star Wars action figures Kenner
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Mattel
- Cabbage Patch Kids Coleco
- Transformers Hasbro
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures Playmates
- Super Soaker Larami
- Tamagotchi Bandai
- Furby Tiger Electronics
- Beyblade Takara
- Nerf N-Strike Hasbro
- Fidget spinner Various
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