Cards and their sources
Every Curio card is a real subject: a fossil, an invention, a legend, a place. It keeps the source article, its revision and licence, and the author of its illustration.
Play- Cards
- 230
- Boosters
- 3
- Types
- 9
- Rarities
- 5
- Wonders
- 27
- Languages
- 2French and English
Three boosters
PangeaThe Mesozoic, its fossils and the people who found them. 70 cards.
MegabitThe history of computing, from the Antikythera mechanism to the Web. 77 cards.
JadeImperial China, its inventions and its legends. 83 cards.
Nature
Places
History
Creation
Myth
Knowledge
Humanity
Tech
Oddity
Five rarities
- ◆Find
the core of every type
- ◆◆Curiosity
stronger, rarer cards
- ◆◆◆Treasure
the illustration breaks out of its frame
- one SparkWonder
the heart of a deck, one per deck, 2 Stars when knocked out
- two SparksSecret
a Wonder dressed in gold
Evolving through links
Three stages: Basic, Level 1, Level 2. A card evolves into another when their articles link to each other, and the evolution quotes the sentence that links them.
The folklorist Adrienne Mayor suggests that Protoceratops fossils, seen by Scythian gold prospectors in Central Asia, may have shaped how the Greeks imagined the griffin.
Sources and licences
Card texts come from Wikipedia, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence: each card keeps its article title and the revision read. Illustrations come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, Free Art License), credited to their authors. Curio is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation; Wikipedia is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Image credits for this site
- Cat: Joshua Scott, CC BY 2.0, Flickr
- Chinese dragon: Gary Todd, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chinese garden: AgainErick, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chinese ink: Thomas Wydra, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Fireworks: Calgary Reviews from Calgary, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Great Wall of China: Hao Wei, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Griffin: Marieke IJsendoorn-Kuijpers, CC BY 2.0, Flickr
- Gunpowder: Satirdan kahraman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neuron: Micromural123, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pandora's box: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paper: Brandi Redd brandi1, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Porcelain: Auteur inconnu, Domaine public, Wikimedia Commons
- Protoceratops: AntoninJury, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Silk: Urek Meniashvili, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Triceratops: DmytroLeontyev, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyrannosaurus: ScottRobertAnselmo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- USB flash drive: Dmitry Makeev, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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