WNBA champions

Order by the year each team won the WNBA Finals. You place all 29 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

WNBA champions
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Order by the year each team won the WNBA Finals. Drag or tap it onto the line
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29
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Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the WNBA champions timeline game works

Every card is a WNBA Finals, written as champion over runner-up, with the Finals MVP named underneath. Sort them by the year the title was won. One Finals starts on the line with its year showing. After that you place one series at a time into a gap of your choosing; correct placements show the year, and incorrect ones still slot the series into place while costing a life. You get three lives, and a run of ten right answers restores one you've lost.

The deck covers every season of the league, so dynasties sit side by side and some franchises win titles in tight clusters. Where the same two teams met in more than one Finals, a note in parentheses tells them apart. The MVP is the best clue on each card, though stars who won it more than once make it slipperier. Franchises that have since moved or folded are a hint in their own right, if you remember when they were around.

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 29 cards you might be dealt, with 1 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Comets over Liberty (single game) Series MVP Cynthia Cooper
  • Comets over Mercury Series MVP Cynthia Cooper
  • Comets over Liberty (three games) Series MVP Cynthia Cooper
  • Comets over Liberty (two-game sweep) Series MVP Cynthia Cooper
  • Sparks over Sting Series MVP Lisa Leslie
  • Sparks over Liberty Series MVP Lisa Leslie
  • Shock over Sparks Series MVP Ruth Riley
  • Storm over Sun Series MVP Betty Lennox
  • Monarchs over Sun Series MVP Yolanda Griffith
  • Shock over Monarchs Series MVP Deanna Nolan
  • Mercury over Shock Series MVP Cappie Pondexter
  • Shock over Silver Stars Series MVP Katie Smith
  • Mercury over Fever Series MVP Diana Taurasi
  • Storm over Dream Series MVP Lauren Jackson
  • Lynx over Dream (Philips Arena) Series MVP Seimone Augustus
  • Fever over Lynx Series MVP Tamika Catchings
  • Lynx over Dream (Gwinnett Center) Series MVP Maya Moore
  • Mercury over Sky Series MVP Diana Taurasi
  • Lynx over Fever Series MVP Sylvia Fowles
  • Sparks over Lynx Series MVP Candace Parker
  • Lynx over Sparks Series MVP Sylvia Fowles
  • Storm over Mystics Series MVP Breanna Stewart
  • Mystics over Sun Series MVP Emma Meesseman
  • Storm over Aces Series MVP Breanna Stewart
  • Sky over Mercury Series MVP Kahleah Copper
  • Aces over Sun Series MVP Chelsea Gray
  • Aces over Liberty Series MVP A'ja Wilson
  • Liberty over Lynx Series MVP Jonquel Jones

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