Timeline Game: The 1800s Challenge

By ALLISON HARRELL
Texian Time Machine & Outreach Coordinator

Do you feel like you know more things than your family? Do you like lording obscure knowledge over others? Prove it! This game is a new twist on our popular Timeline games posted earlier this spring. This game can be played by one to four players – if you have more players, we suggest working together in teams.

Directions

1. Download the game cards here. Color the cards and then cut them out; also cut out the dates included in the three print-outs. Note: set aside the six bonus/extra cards if this is your first time to play.
2. Lay out the years in a line on a flat surface (like a table or a floor) with plenty of room around each of the years.
3. Equally divide the cards among all the players.
4. Have each player play all of the cards in their hands, guessing card goes under which year. (There's no need to take turns -- just have each person place his/her card at a different point around the year, so the score can be tabulated at the end). Each year will have three things:
   1. Something that was published
   2. Something that was new (invented/created/manufactured/installed)
   3. An event that happened

Variation:

• If you have added in the bonus/extra cards, six years of the years will have with four cards on them

Scoring:

1. Once all of the cards have been played, download the answer sheet here and check for all the right answers.
2. Everyone is scored individually. You get a point for every card you played that is under the correct year.
3. Whoever has the most points wins!
4. Note: Since everyone is being scored individually, there can be more than one card for each of those categories around each year (because one of them might be wrong).