World's Fairs
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World's Fairs
Order these World's Fairs by the year each opened. Place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.
30
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How World's Fairs 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
28 of the 30 cards you could be dealt, plus 2 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.
- London — Great Exhibition The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park
- New York — Crystal Palace America's first world's fair
- Paris — Second Empire fair Napoleon III's exhibition
- London — International Exhibition Held in South Kensington
- Vienna — Weltausstellung The Rotunda in the Prater
- Philadelphia — Centennial Exhibition Marked 100 years of independence
- Paris — Third Republic fair Recovery after the Franco-Prussian War
- Melbourne — Centennial Exhibition Royal Exhibition Building
- Barcelona — Universal Exposition Spain's first world's fair
- Paris — Eiffel Tower fair The tower built as its entrance arch
- Chicago — Columbian Exposition The White City honoring Columbus
- Brussels — International Exposition Belgium's turn-of-century fair
- Paris — Belle Epoque fair Art Nouveau and the moving walkway
- Buffalo — Pan-American Exposition President McKinley was shot here
- San Francisco — Panama-Pacific Exposition Celebrated the Panama Canal
- Philadelphia — Sesquicentennial Exposition 150 years of independence
- Barcelona — International Exposition The German Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe
- Chicago — Century of Progress A Century of Progress theme
- Paris — Arts and Techniques fair Rival German and Soviet pavilions
- New York — World of Tomorrow The Trylon and Perisphere
- Brussels — Expo 58 The Atomium
- Seattle — Century 21 Exposition The Space Needle
- New York — Unisphere fair Peace Through Understanding
- Montreal — Expo 67 Man and His World, Habitat 67
- Osaka — Expo 70 Japan's first world's fair
- Knoxville — Energy Turns the World A small-city energy expo
- Seville — Expo 92 Age of Discovery quincentennial
- Shanghai — Better City fair Better City, Better Life
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