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Zelda games

Order by the year each game first released. You place all 30 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 Zelda games timeline

Each card is a Legend of Zelda release: the main adventures, handheld entries, spin-offs, remakes and HD remasters. You sort them by the year each first came out, and the developer is printed under the title. One game is already on the timeline, its year showing. Place each new card into a gap. Call it correctly and the year comes up; pick wrong and it settles into its real position while you lose one of your three lives.

The deck follows Link across Nintendo's home consoles and handhelds, with a strange detour onto someone else's hardware. Remakes and remasters are the main hazard, since they share a name with games from much earlier. Developer credits are worth a look, because several outside studios handled handheld entries, ports and spin-offs. Handheld games released between the big console adventures are the hardest to slot.

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.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 274 times. An average run places 9.3 cards, and 76% of all placements land in the right spot. 6% of runs place every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Tri Force Heroes missed 40% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Skyward Sword HD missed 37% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Cadence of Hyrule missed 37% of the time, usually by about 2 places

The safest card is The Legend of Zelda, placed right 99% of the time.

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.

  • The Legend of Zelda Nintendo
  • Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Nintendo
  • A Link to the Past Nintendo
  • Link: The Faces of Evil Animation Magic
  • Link's Awakening Nintendo
  • Zelda's Adventure Viridis
  • Ocarina of Time Nintendo
  • Majora's Mask Nintendo
  • Oracle of Seasons and Ages Capcom
  • Four Swords Nintendo
  • The Wind Waker Nintendo
  • Four Swords Adventures Nintendo
  • The Minish Cap Capcom
  • Twilight Princess Nintendo
  • Spirit Tracks Nintendo
  • Ocarina of Time 3D Grezzo
  • Skyward Sword Nintendo
  • A Link Between Worlds Nintendo
  • The Wind Waker HD Nintendo
  • Hyrule Warriors Omega Force
  • Tri Force Heroes Nintendo
  • Twilight Princess HD Tantalus
  • Breath of the Wild Nintendo
  • Cadence of Hyrule Brace Yourself Games
  • Link's Awakening (remake) Grezzo
  • Age of Calamity Omega Force
  • Skyward Sword HD Tantalus
  • Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo

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