US states by statehood
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US states by statehood
Order by the year each became a state. You place all 50 cards on one timeline, 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 to play the US statehood timeline game
Each card is one of the 50 US states, printed on its own with no extra clue. You order them by the year each became a state, and for the original 13 that means the year it ratified the Constitution. One state goes down first with its year showing. Choose a gap for each new card. When you're right the year appears; when you're wrong, the state still lands in its correct spot, and you're down one of three lives.
Plenty of states share a year, and a tie counts as correct, so you only need the right neighborhood. Geography helps but won't carry you all the way, because the map did not fill in as a tidy line, and some states joined well before or after their neighbors. War and politics shaped a handful of admissions. School-day memories of the original colonies are useful too, though their exact ratification order is harder than it looks.
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 50 cards you might be dealt, with 22 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Delaware
- Pennsylvania
- Georgia
- Massachusetts
- South Carolina
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Rhode Island
- Kentucky
- Ohio
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Missouri
- Michigan
- Florida
- Iowa
- California
- Oregon
- Kansas
- Nevada
- Colorado
- South Dakota
- Washington
- Idaho
- Utah
- New Mexico
- Alaska
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