Contents
- How to play
- Articles and categories
- Guesses and answers
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Community
- Support the game
- Contact the author
- Credits
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 picked at random each day. Once picked, an article won’t be picked 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 a common but incorrect answer. For example, we’d need Kim Jong Il, to distinguish from other North Korean rulers named Kim.
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 🐈🐟 |
Community
- Post your scores and chat about today’s articles on the game’s Discord server or Reddit community, and follow us on Bluesky.
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
Contact the author
Credits
- Original concept by Sumana Harihareswara. Name and original implementation by Kevan Davis in 2006.
Further credits and licensing
- Article titles, categories, and text are sourced from Wikipedia, created by Wikipedia contributors, and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Article thumbnail images are sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Only images available under free-content licenses are displayed. Attribution and license information recorded by Wikimedia is displayed with the image.
- Article aliases are sourced from Wikidata, licensed under CC0.
- Alegraya and Alegreya Sans by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica, Open Font License.
- Golden Nile Catfish illustration 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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