Publisher: Looney Laboratories, Inc.
Number of Players: 1-6
Designer: Andrew Looney
Playing time: 20 to 45 minutes
Ages: 11 & up
Awards: Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game 2000, Parent's Choice Award: Silver Honor
Overview: Imagine that you are a time traveler, cast into the abyss of temporal non-existence when key event within your history change, making your timeline cease to exist. Now, armed with the unreliable tool of Time Travel, you can jaunt back and forth through the ages of history, altering events to make your present into the future. But many dangers exist: paradoxes within the time stream, rival time travelers and patching up the tears from your own “repair” work.

Chrononauts is a fantastic card game designed to allow adults and older kids to have fun together, even as they watch how history builds upon the past. It also serves as a sneaky way to drum up interest in history, by showing how the ripples from an event like the assassination of Abe Lincoln has repercussions even to the year 2000!
Expansions: Lost Identities Booster
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