Famous volcanic eruptions
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Famous volcanic eruptions
Order these eruptions by the year each occurred. You place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
26
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the volcanic eruptions timeline game works
Famous volcanic eruptions make up this deck, each with a note on what happened or why it mattered. You're ordering them by the year each eruption occurred. One eruption is already on the timeline with its year showing. For each new card, choose the gap where you think it belongs. Correct, and the year is revealed; incorrect, and the eruption still lands in its true place, costing one of your three lives.
The deck spans most of recorded history, from ancient times to eruptions you may have watched online. Some volcanoes erupt more than once in the deck, so the note is the only way to tell those cards apart. Older eruptions are spread far apart, while modern ones come in quick succession. Eruptions that changed the climate or grounded flights are memorable, but memorable isn't the same as recent.
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 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Vesuvius destroys Pompeii Buried the Roman city in ash
- Vesuvius 472 eruption Ash fell as far as Constantinople
- Eldgja fissure eruption Vast Icelandic lava flood
- Hekla medieval eruption Iceland's most active volcano
- Rinjani Samalas eruption A massive tropical blast on Lombok
- Kuwae caldera eruption A Pacific eruption tied to global cooling
- Huaynaputina Peru's largest historic eruption
- Vesuvius Baroque-era eruption Killed thousands near Naples
- Mount Fuji Hoei eruption Japan's last major Fuji eruption
- Oraefajokull Iceland's tallest peak erupts
- Laki fissure eruption A haze famine across Iceland
- Tambora The Year Without a Summer followed
- Krakatoa Its blast was heard thousands of miles away
- Mount Pelee Destroyed Saint-Pierre, Martinique
- Novarupta Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
- Kelud disaster Deadly lahars on Java
- Paricutin is born A cornfield volcano in Mexico
- Mount Agung A major Balinese eruption
- Mount St. Helens Blew out its north flank in Washington
- El Chichon A Mexican eruption that cooled the climate
- Nevado del Ruiz Lahars buried Armero, Colombia
- Mount Pinatubo The Philippines blast lowered global temperatures
- Unzen pyroclastic flows A deadly Japanese eruption
- Soufriere Hills Buried Plymouth, Montserrat
- Eyjafjallajokull Grounded European air travel
- Hunga Tonga eruption A record atmospheric shockwave
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