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How to play

  • Guess the Wikipedia article title from its categories.
  • Don’t worry about capitalisation, accent marks, or anything in brackets like (TV series) or (singer).
  • If you had the right answer but got the title wrong, tap
  • It’s a challenging test of general knowledge. On average, players score 3 or 4 out of 10.

Articles and categories

  • The game has over 5,500 articles, curated from player suggestions, the Vital Articles project, and popular pages.
  • 10 articles are chosen at random each day. Once chosen, an article won’t be shown again for at least 18 months.
  • Each article is in at least four categories, and is the only article in those categories. To avoid giveaways, categories which have any non-trivial words in common with the title are removed.
  • If an article doesn’t make sense, tap and I will review it.
  • You can improve categories and alternative names by editing Wikipedia and Wikidata. Drop me an email and I will pick up your edits.

Guesses and answers

  • Many alternatives to the exact title are accepted. Specifically, any aliases on Wikidata and any word or phrase which Wikipedia redirects to the article.
  • If your guess is within a few letters of the correct title or an alternative, the game asks Did You Mean the correct title.
  • For real-life people, we generally accept surnames alone – unless the full name is necessary to distinguish from plausible incorrect guesses. For example, Serena Williams and Kim Jong-Il would require full names.

Community

Support the game

  • If you’d like to support the game, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi.
  • Your support is much appreciated. Caffeine keeps me improving the game, powers the server, and the cats and fish seem to like it too. There’s absolutely no obligation. Thank you! ❤️ — Matthew

Keyboard shortcuts

Page Key Action
Home Enter Start today’s game
Question Enter Enter guess, or accept Did You Mean
CtrlEnter Skip, or reject Did You Mean
Answer Enter Next question
c Toggle Close Enough
r Report bad article
w Open Wikipedia article in new tab
Completed c Copy results emoji 🐈🐟

About the game

Further credits and licensing
  • Article titles and categories by Wikipedia editors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Alegraya and Alegreya Sans by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica (Open Font License).
  • Golden Nile Catfish illustrated by Edme-François Jomard (public domain).
  • SVG icons by 480 Design (CC BY 4.0).
  • Close un oeuf joke by Stephen.

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