Pack
Historical figures
Conquerors, thinkers and saints
95 lotsUnlocks at level 10
The people everybody has heard of. Each duel is judged on power, mind, charisma, endurance or legacy, revealed after the auction.
Judged on
- Power · armies, thrones and force
- Mind · ideas and intellect
- Charisma · the ability to move people
- Endurance · hardship survived
- Legacy · how much of the world they shaped
Ratings are never shown. You bid on what you believe, then the arena reveals who was right.
How a match works
- Auction. Twelve of the 95 lots come up one by one. Both players start with twenty coins.
- Lineup. Each player secretly assigns their five lots to the five duels: Power, Mind, Charisma, Endurance, Legacy.
- Arena. The five duels play out and every lot adds its power. The side with the bigger total takes the match, however the individual duels fell.
All 95 lots in Historical figures
- Alexander the GreatUndefeated, and dead at thirty-two
- Julius CaesarCrossed the Rubicon and never looked back
- Genghis KhanBuilt the largest land empire from a saddle
- Napoleon BonaparteFrom artillery lieutenant to emperor
- CleopatraThe last pharaoh spoke nine languages
- Elizabeth IThe Virgin Queen and the Armada
- Leonardo da VinciPainter, engineer, anatomist, dreamer
- Isaac NewtonGravity, calculus and a famous apple
- Albert EinsteinRelativity and the most famous hair in physics
- Marie CurieTwo Nobel Prizes in two sciences
- Charles DarwinFinches, tortoises and the origin of species
- Galileo GalileiAnd yet it moves
- Nikola TeslaAlternating current and lightning in a lab
- Ada LovelaceWrote the first algorithm for a machine that did not exist yet
- AristotleTutor of Alexander, teacher of the West
- PlatoThe cave, the forms and the Academy
- SocratesQuestioned everything, drank the hemlock
- ConfuciusTwo and a half millennia of advice
- BuddhaLeft a palace to find the way
- Jesus of NazarethThree years of teaching, two thousand of following
- MuhammadProphet, statesman, founder of a faith
- MosesTablets, plagues and a parted sea
- Martin Luther King Jr.I have a dream
- Mahatma GandhiBrought an empire to its knees without a weapon
- Nelson MandelaTwenty-seven years in prison, then president
- Abraham LincolnHeld a country together
- George WashingtonWon the war, refused the crown
- Winston ChurchillBlood, toil, tears and sweat
- Joan of ArcA teenager who turned a war
- William ShakespeareAll the world's a stage
- HomerThe Iliad and the Odyssey, maybe
- MichelangeloThe David and a ceiling
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComposing at five, immortal at thirty-five
- Ludwig van BeethovenWrote the Ninth without hearing it
- Pablo PicassoReinvented painting several times
- Frida KahloPainted her pain into icons
- Christopher ColumbusSailed the wrong way and changed the map
- Marco PoloTold Europe about China
- Ferdinand MagellanStarted the first trip around the world
- Ramses IISixty-six years on the throne, temples everywhere
- HammurabiWrote the law in stone
- Cyrus the GreatFounded Persia and freed the captives
- AshokaConquered, repented, spread peace
- CharlemagneFather of Europe
- SaladinTook Jerusalem and spared it
- Suleiman the MagnificentLawgiver of the Ottoman golden age
- Mehmed the ConquerorTook Constantinople at twenty-one
- Mustafa Kemal AtatürkFounded a republic from an empire's ruins
- Peter the GreatDragged Russia into Europe
- Catherine the GreatEnlightened, ruthless, expansionist
- Simón BolívarLiberated half a continent
- Attila the HunThe scourge of God
- HannibalElephants over the Alps
- SpartacusThe slave who shook Rome
- BoudicaBurned London to the ground
- Marcus AureliusEmperor and philosopher
- AugustusFound Rome brick and left it marble
- TutankhamunA minor pharaoh with the best tomb
- Queen VictoriaNamed an era
- Louis XIVThe Sun King and Versailles
- Karl MarxWorkers of the world
- Sigmund FreudPut the couch in psychology
- Florence NightingaleThe lady with the lamp
- Rosa ParksKept her seat
- Malala YousafzaiShot for going to school, kept going
- Alan TuringBroke Enigma and imagined the computer
- Stephen HawkingBlack holes from a wheelchair
- Neil ArmstrongOne small step
- Yuri GagarinThe first human in space
- Amelia EarhartFlew the Atlantic solo, vanished over the Pacific
- Harriet TubmanWent back nineteen times
- Che GuevaraThe face on the T-shirt
- Sun TzuThe Art of War
- Ibn SinaThe Canon of Medicine for six centuries
- Al-KhwarizmiGave us algebra and the algorithm
- RumiThe most read poet in America, from Konya
- Ibn BattutaThirty years and seventy-five thousand miles
- Mansa MusaThe richest man who ever lived
- Shaka ZuluReinvented the spear and the army
- Montezuma IIRuled Tenochtitlan when the ships came
- PachacutiBuilt Machu Picchu and an empire
- Tokugawa IeyasuWaited, then ruled Japan for 250 years
- Oda NobunagaUnified half of Japan with guns and nerve
- Qin Shi HuangFirst emperor, terracotta army
- Wu ZetianChina's only empress regnant
- Emperor MeijiOpened Japan to the world
- Otto von BismarckBlood and iron
- Nikolaus CopernicusMoved the Earth
- Johannes GutenbergPressed the world into print
- Thomas EdisonA thousand patents and a light bulb
- Wright brothersTwelve seconds that changed travel
- Eleanor RooseveltFirst lady of the world
- Mother TeresaA lifetime in the slums of Calcutta
- Vlad the ImpalerThe prince behind Dracula
- RasputinThe monk who would not die