TimeLineup

About TimeLineup

TimeLineup tests a particular kind of football knowledge: not names or numbers, but when things happened relative to each other. The day's puzzle is a set of famous moments from the sport, shuffled. They can be transfers, trophies, debuts, records or well known matches, and no dates are shown while you play.

You drag the cards up or down to build your best guess at the order, then lock it in. Cards in the right slot turn green and cards in the wrong slot turn red. You then rearrange the red ones and lock again. You have a limited number of attempts, and the fewer you use, the higher your score.

You never type a year: knowing that one event came before another is enough. That makes it as much a game of reasoning as of memory, since you can often place an event by what it must have come before or after.

The daily lineup is the same for everyone and can be shared. Outside the daily you can play random lineups and send a link so friends attempt the exact same set. MatchIQ runs other daily football games on the same site, including NameTen and TikiTaka.

How to play TimeLineup

1. Open TimeLineup and read the day's shuffled football moments.
2. Drag each card up or down until the order looks right to you.
3. Lock your order: green cards are in the right slot, red cards belong elsewhere.
4. Rearrange the red cards and lock again, solving it in as few tries as you can.

Tips

• Place the moment you are surest is oldest and the one you are surest is newest first, then fill the middle.
• Leave green cards where they are and spend each new attempt only on the red ones.
• Think in eras before years: sort the moments into rough decades, then order within each.
• Use what you know about careers: a player's debut has to come before his record or his big transfer.

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