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Timeline Challenge

#173156BGG ↗

2015 · 2-10 players · 30min · weight 1.33 · 1,633 ratings

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ID
173156
Name
Timeline Challenge
Year
2015
Rank
1519
Min players
2
Max players
10
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.3333
Num weights
45
Bayes avg
6.11286
Average
7.01137
Users rated
1633
Num owned
3402
Wanting
68
Wishing
381
Num comments
355
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:17:16 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Betting and BluffingSimultaneous Action Selection
Categories (3)
Card GameEducationalTrivia
Description (1486 chars)

Timeline is a card game played using 110 cards. Each card depicts a historical event on both sides, with the year in which that event occurred on only one side. Players take turns placing a card from their hand in a row on the table. After placing the card, the player reveals the date on it. If the card was placed correctly with the date in chronological order with all other cards on the table, the card stays in place; otherwise the card is removed from play and the player takes another card from the deck. The first player to get rid of all his cards by placing them correctly wins. If multiple players go out in the same round, then everyone else is eliminated from play and each of those players are dealt one more card for another round of play. If only one player has no cards after a bonus round, he wins; otherwise play continues until a single player goes out. Timeline Challenge incorporates the original mechanic of the series into progressive game track, of which players can move between 0-4 spaces per turn. Players will have to make use of pre-determined time periods and guess where the incident depicted on the card occurred. There are four different challenges, and they are played depending on the color of the game space of the lead player. Additionally there are two further challenges which allow the two players at the back of the pack to catch up. Although the game comes with its own cards, it can be integrated with any or all of the previous sets.

LLM v2 (wide)

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LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).