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Countries joining the UN

Order these nations by the year each joined the United Nations. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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release years and dates
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How the UN membership timeline game works

Countries are ordered here by the year each joined the United Nations. Every card shows a country with its region of the world printed under the name. One nation starts on the timeline with its year showing. For every new card, pick a gap before, between or after the countries already placed. A good placement turns up the year; a wrong one still sends the country to its true spot and costs one of your three lives.

Founding members, newly independent states, divided countries and late joiners all appear. A big share of the cards sit right at the founding, and many former colonies arrive in waves soon after independence. Not every country joined the moment it could: some waited because of politics, neutrality or rival claims, and those are the cards that catch people out. Region alone doesn't tell you much.

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 12 times. An average run places 7.3 cards, and 71% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • India missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Ghana missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Cyprus missed 40% of the time, usually by about 3 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • United States North America
  • France Western Europe
  • China East Asia
  • Egypt North Africa
  • India South Asia
  • Afghanistan Central Asia
  • Sweden Northern Europe
  • Pakistan South Asia
  • Yemen Middle East
  • Myanmar Southeast Asia
  • Indonesia Southeast Asia
  • Japan East Asia
  • Sudan Northeast Africa
  • Ghana West Africa
  • Nigeria West Africa
  • Senegal West Africa
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Central Africa
  • Tanzania East Africa
  • Algeria North Africa
  • Kenya East Africa
  • Kuwait Middle East
  • Bhutan South Asia
  • Bangladesh South Asia
  • Vietnam Southeast Asia
  • Namibia Southern Africa
  • South Korea East Asia
  • Eritrea East Africa
  • Switzerland Western Europe

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