Not Your Parents’ Board Games
By David Means
Timeline: Inventions
Timeline: Inventions is a card game played using 109 cards. Each card depicts an invention on both sides, with the year in which that invention was created 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: Inventions can be combined with any other title in the Timeline series:
Timeline: Discoveries
Timeline: Diversity
Timeline: Historical Events
Timeline: Music & Cinema
Timeline: American History
Timeline: Americana
Editor's note: Since this profile was written in 2016, there appears now to be a Timeline Challenge Board Game that has become available. It may be played on its own, but it also is designed to allow players to incorporate their cards from any of the rest of the Timeline series.
By David Means
Timeline: Inventions is a card game played using 109 cards. Each card depicts an invention on both sides, with the year in which that invention was created 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: Inventions can be combined with any other title in the Timeline series:
Timeline: Diversity
Timeline: Historical Events
Timeline: Music & Cinema
Timeline: American History
Timeline: Americana
Editor's note: Since this profile was written in 2016, there appears now to be a Timeline Challenge Board Game that has become available. It may be played on its own, but it also is designed to allow players to incorporate their cards from any of the rest of the Timeline series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND SERIES: In January 2016, KaCSFFS member (Club Director since April 2017) and notable board game collector David Means gave a presentation to the club about his collection. It was so interesting, I asked for permission to reprint it as a series of posts on this blog. He graciously agreed, and supplied me with his script. I have divided it into several posts and added the illustrations, hyperlinks, embedded videos, etc. as seemed appropriate. --Jan S. Gephardt, Communications Officer
IMAGES: Many thanks to Vat 19 for the photo of the Timeline: Inventions box with some representative cards from the game, and to Asmodee (the manufacturer) for the photo of the expansion pack boxes. I also want to thank The Board Game Family's review, for the photo of the Timeline Challenge game with all its components laid out.
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