How to play

Pick your categories, the target number of cards and the time per card. Every player starts with one card already on their timeline.

A card is drawn. For a song, the 30-second preview plays while the title and artist stay hidden; other cards show their title straight away.

Place the card earlier than, later than or between the cards on your timeline before the hourglass runs out. Song cards get the full time, text cards half of it.

Every card you place correctly goes into your pot for this turn. After each correct card you choose:

Secure the pot — the cards become yours for good and the turn passes — or play another card to grow it.

Miss once and the whole pot is gone and the turn passes.

While the active player is placing, everyone else secretly guesses where the card goes on the active player's timeline.

If the active player gets it wrong, the fastest player who guessed right steals the card and it counts towards their total.

Lock a correct answer quickly — within 30 seconds for songs, 15 for other cards — to earn a bonus point. You keep it even if you lose the pot later.

Spend 3 bonus points to skip a card you don't fancy and draw a new one; the pot is kept.

The first player to reach the target number of cards wins. It's instant: the moment your secured cards plus your pot reach the target — no need to secure first.

The host can end the game early; whoever is ahead then wins.

All players see the same card and secretly dial in the year they think it's from. Then everyone reveals.

The game is played over a set number of rounds, and the highest score wins.

Spot on: 15 points.

Otherwise: 10 minus the number of years you were off. One year off scores 9, five years off scores 5.

10 or more years off scores no points.