Build the timeline
Cards in a column, dragged into order and checked all at once, so the order cannot be nudged into place.
When to use it
A history or science lesson where the order of events is the point. A general-knowledge round at a team day or during a training break. Revising a topic where learners know the events but blur which came first.
What makes it this
Built on the Reorder generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.
- Cards run top to bottom
Each sequence becomes a column players drag up and down; columns sit side by side.
In the builder: How it plays › How players order
- Players hand in their answer
Off, the answer is checked as it is made, with no submit button.
In the builder: How it plays › How players order
Preview
View only — copy it to play.Three timelines: put the firsts in order
Each column is a set of firsts, shuffled. Drag them into the order they happened in — earliest at the top — then press Check.
3 sequences
Why the example is built this way
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Every card is a dated first.
The order has to be a fact, not an opinion. Dated events give each column a single right answer, which a list of process steps often doesn't.
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No two events in the same decade.
Spread the dates so no pair is a coin toss, and keep them off the cards, since knowing them is the puzzle. Where a first is disputed, add the word that settles it.
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Three columns of six, not one long list.
The board sets several sequences side by side and sizes each one on its own. Parallel strands on related themes suit it better than one list of eighteen.
Build it yourself
- 1 Open the Reorder builder and fill in the Sequences & cards tab.
- 2 Change the settings under What makes it this. Each one says where it is in the builder.
- 3 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.
Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.