Base rules

One player draws and plays a mystery clip. That player will then have to guess what year the song came out in, or around in, they'll have to place it into their own timeline in the spot they think is chronologically correct. Say the player has a 1974, 1984, and a 2012 card in their timeline, the player has to guess where in that timeline the song fits in, if the played song is from 1982, and the player guessed it was from between 1984 and 2012, they lose their round and cannot add the card to their timeline. The answer of the song is revealed after a guess has been locked in. First to the target number of cards (set in Settings) wins. Default & recommended is 10 cards.

Gold coin (bonus point)

If a player can also name the song's title and/or one of the artist(s) (if multiple) before it's revealed, they earn a gold coin. Tap the gold coin on their card to mark it as a bonus. What a bonus is actually worth (an extra card, a skip, a steal, nothing at all) is entirely up to your group — else it's merely a tiebreaker.

Scoring System

The first player to the agreed number of cards in their timeline (default 10) wins the game. In case of a tie on cards, the winner is decided by gold coins. If still tied, the winner is decided by whoever has the closest year-gaps (or if on expert mode, closest months-gap) in their timeline — so a 2012 and a 2013 beats a 2012 and a 2014, by the difference in years. If tied again, this continues until a winner is found, and in the rare case both players have identical years, the winner is decided by name in alphabetical order — tough luck, William and Whitney.

Gamemodes

Steal

Cards can be dragged from one player's timeline to another at any time. A common house rule: if a player guesses a year exactly right, they may steal any one card from an opponent's timeline instead of adding their own — yes, if the stolen card has a gold coin you steal that as well!

Hard mode

Instead of scoring on the standard "was it placed correctly" basis, require players to also guess a specific year out loud before revealing and be within an agreed span of years, e.g. 5 years — not only just the correct relative position.

Teams

Two or more players share one timeline slot on the scoreboard, against a team of equal size and/or skill, instead of playing individually — useful for uneven group sizes or mixed skill levels.