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World's Fairs

Order these World's Fairs by the year each opened. You place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the World's Fairs timeline game works

World's Fairs and international expositions are the cards, named for their host city, with a note on a famous building or theme printed underneath. You're ordering them by the year each fair opened. One fair is on the timeline at the start with its year showing. Choose a gap for each new card among the fairs already placed. Pick the gap that fits and the year appears; a wrong one still puts the fair in its true spot and costs one of your three lives.

The fairs run from the great exhibitions of the industrial age through the space-age expos and on to recent events. The early fairs come thick and fast, and several cities hosted more than once, so the note matters as much as the city. Plenty of famous towers and pavilions were built for fairs, which can be your best clue if you know when they went up.

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 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their 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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