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Famous volcanic eruptions

Order these eruptions by the year each occurred. Place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How Famous volcanic eruptions is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

26 of the 26 cards you could be dealt. The 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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