Guess the set
3,380 cards from 130 English sets, sampled across each set's numbering so it is not all commons. Scans from TCGdex, read September 1, 2026. Fan content, not affiliated with The Pokemon Company.
About this game
A real card off the shelf. Work it out from the frame, the symbol and the era. This is the skill that makes you quick at sorting a bulk box, and it is the one people are surprised they can learn.
Where the answer is printed
Every card tells you its set twice, in two marks the size of a fingernail. One is the number after the slash. The other is the symbol beside it, and that is the one this game is really asking about. Both live along the bottom edge, and the corner they live in changed once.
The 16 eras in the pot
These are the symbols you are being asked to tell apart, one per era, oldest first. The mark shown is the one the era opened with. Set the game to Same era and all four answers come from the same block below, which takes the card frame out of it and leaves you nothing but the symbol.
Base1999 to 2000
6 sets
156 cards
Gym2000
2 sets
52 cards
Neo2000 to 2002
4 sets
104 cards
E-Card2002 to 2003
3 sets
78 cards
Legendary Collection2002
1 set
26 cards
EX2003 to 2007
16 sets
416 cards
Diamond & Pearl2007 to 2008
8 sets
208 cards
Platinum2009
4 sets
104 cards
HeartGold & SoulSilver2010
4 sets
104 cards
Black & White2011 to 2013
12 sets
312 cards
Call of Legends2011
1 set
26 cards
XY2013 to 2016
14 sets
364 cards
Sun & Moon2017 to 2019
15 sets
390 cards
Sword & Shield2019 to 2023
17 sets
442 cards
Scarlet & Violet2023 to 2025
17 sets
442 cards
Mega Evolution2025 to 2026
6 sets
156 cards
Symbols mirrored from the Pokemon TCG API. Era names, dates and set counts are read from the same expansion list /expansions.html is built from, and the card counts are this quiz's own pot.
Once you can do this
Reading a set off a card is the first half of sorting a box. These are the pages that pick it up from there.