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Trumped Up Cards

card game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ28127199 ↗
Source-derived summary

Trumped Up Cards is a party game developed by Reid Hoffman to poke fun at then presidential candidate Donald Trump. It was modeled after the popular Cards Against Humanity card game and sold online. The game was featured on an episode of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in which Hoffman was a guest. The game has also been covered by a large number of mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times and USA Today. The game is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Trumped Up Cards” is card game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Trumped, Cards and card, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 88-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-09. For this dossier, Trumped, Cards and card is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “card game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28127199. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trumped Up Cards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.