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Popes

Order these popes by the year each was elected. You place all 36 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How to play the popes timeline game

Popes from across church history are on these cards, each with a short note on what he did or faced. You're ordering them by the year each was elected. One pope starts on the timeline with his year showing. Every new card goes into the gap you think is right. When it lands right, the year is shown; a wrong guess still moves the card to its true place and costs you one of three lives.

The line covers most of the papacy's long history, through medieval struggles with kings, the Renaissance, the Reformation and into the modern church. Popes who share a name always have a higher number the later they came, which is a good anchor. The notes often mention a famous emperor, artist or council, so general history helps more than church knowledge. Early cards are spread far apart; modern ones come quickly.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 13 times. An average run places 6 cards, and 67% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Pope Adrian VI missed 100% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Pope Pius V missed 80% of the time, usually by a single place
  • Pope Innocent XI missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 36 cards you might be dealt, with 8 more in the deck. Their 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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