Bookdle is an attribute-comparison game over the classics of world and Turkish literature. After every guess five attributes are compared so you can see how close you landed. Tries are unlimited, so you can eliminate methodically instead of gambling.
The attributes compared
Country. The author's. Kafka counts as Czechia, Joyce as Ireland, Zweig as Austria.
Language. The language of first publication, not of the translation you read. Beckett wrote Godot in French first.
Format. Novel, novella, story collection, play, poetry, epic or essay.
Genre. The work's best-known identity: dystopia, romance, adventure, crime, satire and the rest.
Year. First publication. Ancient works show as BC, and the arrows tell you whether the target is older or newer.
Tips
You can search by author too. Type "dosto" and every Dostoevsky work in the pool appears.
Country and language are separate columns. One green and one red means the author did not write in their own country's language, which is a strong clue on its own.
Treat the year arrow as a binary search. The pool runs from 750 BC to 1998, so every guess cuts hard.
Do not sleep on the format column. Landing on play or epic leaves only a handful of candidates.
What's in the pool
All 205 works were first published before 2000. The bar is the high-school syllabus plus the world-classics canon. Rooms are language-neutral, so everyone guesses the same target, which is why no language shelf digs far deeper into its own canon than the others: 27 entries come from Turkish literature and 25 from Spanish and Latin American literature. No author contributes more than three works, so no single name dominates the pool.
Multiplayer
Open a room and everyone gets the same book. Who solved it in how many tries shows live in the player rail beside the board. No account needed, just share the room link.