Early American Chrononauts Time :: Traveling Card Game

Get the scoop on mucking with history in the hilarious Early American Chrononauts card game!

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Early American Chrononauts is a card game that lets you and your friends leap, head-first into the past to muck with important historical events. It's a game of time-traveling mayhem as you change history in a race against your friends to be the first to achieve your secret mission. Here's our game review.

Time-travelin� Basics with Early American Chrononauts!

This card game kicks it off by laying out cards that detail a chunk of American history, from 1770 to 1916. Then, each player gets a special mission card and a card that tells you what historical events you should change. Everybody takes turns drawing cards and playing cards to collect stuff and change history. The first player to complete their mission, or change history to what they want, wins!

Good News from the Future with Early American Chrononauts

The first bit of good news about this card game is that it's super fun. You can collect negative-calorie pizza, beat up the French, change the Civil War, mess with the other players and more. Plus, playing around with history is a fun way to learn about all the stuff that happened and how it affects everything else - just don't spill your pop on the Boston Tea Party.

Early American Chrononauts Time Lag

The biggest problem with this card game is that it takes a chunk of space to set up and a solid 30 minutes to an hour to play. It also really helps to have more than two players because there's a lot of card-swapping going on that works best with more than two players.

Time's Up for Early American Chrononauts!

Looking for an awesome party game, or something that you can play and beat your parents at? Early American Chrononauts is the game for you! It's also a fun way to learn about some of the biggest things to happen in history, without putting up with a dull history class.