The Mystery History Game
| King Arthur | 5th century |
| The Venerable Bede | 7th century |
| King Alfred | 9th century |
| King Cnut | 11th century |
Your table will be much longer, and you can put in not just names, but historical developments, events, cultural terms, and the like. In the case of people and events, you might want to put in exact dates, rather than just centuries. For some historical developments, you may need to put a range of centuries.
Once you have made your table, print it out, and cut each table cell into a separate piece. These are the 'pieces' of the Mystery History Game. There are two versions of the game. In Version A you put all the pieces into a bag, shake it up, dump out the pieces, and then put the table back together, matching the names, events, developments, etc. with the correct dates. In Version B, you do not put the date pieces into the bag. When you dump out the other pieces, you then try arrange them in the correct chronological order relative to each other.
OK, it's a pretty stupid game, really, but it works. Just keep repeating the game, sometimes in Version A and sometimes in Version B, until you can quickly 'win' the game (i.e. make no mistakes). The key is that you can do it quickly. This means that the material is entering your long-term memory. As you study more history, you can simply make more game pieces.