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Popes

Order these popes by the year each was elected. Place all 36 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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release years and dates
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How Popes is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 36 cards you could be dealt, plus 8 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Pope Sylvester I Pope during Constantine's reign
  • Pope Leo I The Great, met with Attila
  • Pope Gregory I The Great, sent missionaries to England
  • Pope Leo III Crowned Charlemagne emperor
  • Pope Urban II Proclaimed the First Crusade
  • Pope Innocent III Papacy at the height of its power
  • Pope Gregory IX Established the papal Inquisition
  • Pope Nicholas V Founded the Vatican Library
  • Pope Sixtus IV Built the Sistine Chapel
  • Pope Alexander VI Notorious Borgia pope
  • Pope Julius II The Warrior Pope, patron of Michelangelo
  • Pope Adrian VI Last Dutch pope
  • Pope Clement VII Refused Henry VIII's annulment
  • Pope Paul III Convened the Council of Trent
  • Pope Gregory XIII Reformed the calendar
  • Pope Urban VIII Presided over Galileo's trial
  • Pope Innocent X Subject of a famous Velazquez portrait
  • Pope Innocent XI Opposed the ambitions of Louis XIV
  • Pope Clement XIV Suppressed the Jesuit order
  • Pope Pius VII Imprisoned by Napoleon
  • Pope Pius IX Convened the First Vatican Council
  • Pope Pius X Campaigned against modernism
  • Pope Benedict XV Sought peace during World War I
  • Pope Pius XI Signed the Lateran Treaty
  • Pope Pius XII Led the church through World War II
  • Pope Paul VI Closed the Second Vatican Council
  • Pope John Paul II Long-reigning Polish pope
  • Pope Benedict XVI Resigned the papacy

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