Timeline
About
Play cards from your hand in a "Timeline" attempting to guess the date of the card you are holding and figure out where in the Timeline it should be played.
There are multiple versions of this game but for this review I'm going to group them in two major groups. The set of cards released in 2011 with each having 110 cards per set and the sets of cards released in 2018 having 55 cards. Be aware that there are many other random sets of cards and sets in foreign languages that don't fit into any of these groups.
2011 Group. 110 Cards per set. (Discoveries, General Interest, Music and Cinema, Americana)
2018 Group. 55 Cards per set. (Inventions, Events, Classic)
Thoughts
Tim:
2.5/5 Good
I think this is a good example of when more is not better. After playing and enjoying the Inventions Set from 2018 I went out and purchased some of the 2011 sets thinking that if 55 cards were good then 110 would have to be better. It was not. It seems to be a combination of having to many cards with years incredibly close or with cards with vague years. I've found many comments online where people were complaining about incorrect dates so I'm not the only one.
I really think this game could be a 5/5 with another release with some error checking and some time spent on choosing cards that are not vague.
Also of annoyance. They explicitly mention combining multiple sets of cards, yet the cards have no distinctive markers which would allow you to un mix them at the end. An easy fix that someone missed.
Laura:
4/5 for the small round tins (2018 set), 1/5 for the large tin (2011 Set).
Depends. If you're talking about the small tins about events and people, not too bad. If you're talking about the large tins with inventions, it is frustratingly hard!
Trivia
- There are at least 7 "official" sets with an undetermined number more for specific countries like Britain, France, Spain, etc. The official company website is horrid with no information so I can only guess that some of these are discontinued and I'm guessing that some of the sets are "not authorized".
1-3-2022