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Christmas movies

Order by the year each film was released. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the Christmas movies timeline game

Each card is a holiday film, with the director printed beneath the title, and you sort them by release year. One movie starts on the timeline with its year shown. Every new card asks whether that film came out before, after or between the ones already down. Answer correctly and the year comes up; answer wrongly and the film is moved to its real place, and you lose a life. Three of those and the run is over.

Studio-era classics, holiday horror, family comedies, action movies set at Christmas and streaming releases all share the line. Directors help if you know their careers, and a couple of names appear more than once. Remakes and fresh versions of old stories are the classic trap, since the title alone won't always tell you which version you're holding.

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 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The Shop Around the Corner Ernst Lubitsch
  • Holiday Inn Mark Sandrich
  • Meet Me in St. Louis Vincente Minnelli
  • It's a Wonderful Life Frank Capra
  • Miracle on 34th Street George Seaton
  • White Christmas Michael Curtiz
  • Black Christmas Bob Clark
  • A Christmas Story Bob Clark
  • Gremlins Joe Dante
  • Santa Claus: The Movie Jeannot Szwarc
  • Die Hard John McTiernan
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Jeremiah Chechik
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol Brian Henson
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas Henry Selick
  • Jingle All the Way Brian Levant
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ron Howard
  • Elf Jon Favreau
  • Bad Santa Terry Zwigoff
  • The Polar Express Robert Zemeckis
  • The Holiday Nancy Meyers
  • Fred Claus David Dobkin
  • A Christmas Carol Robert Zemeckis
  • Arthur Christmas Sarah Smith
  • Krampus Michael Dougherty
  • The Christmas Chronicles Clay Kaytis
  • The Grinch Scott Mosier, Yarrow Cheney
  • Happiest Season Clea DuVall
  • Violent Night Tommy Wirkola

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