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Catfishing

Catfishing is the Wikipedia guessing game. Every day there are 10 interesting people, places and things to guess, and for each one all you get is the list of categories its Wikipedia article is in.

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How to play

  1. 01

    Read the categories

    Each article is in at least four categories, and it's the only article in all of them. Categories that share a word with the title are removed, so they don't give it away.

  2. 02

    Guess the article

    Type the title. Aliases and redirects count too, and if you're a few letters off the game asks “Did you mean”.

  3. 03

    Close enough?

    If you had the right answer but got the title wrong, tap Close enough to award yourself half a mark.

  4. 04

    Score out of 10

    A point for each article you get, half for close enough. Share your day as a row of cats and fish.

Good to know

  • It's a challenge. On average, players score 3 or 4 out of 10.
  • Surnames count. For real people, the surname on its own is accepted unless it's ambiguous: Venus Williams needs her full name.
  • Numbers must be exact. Apollo 13 for Apollo 11 is a wrong answer, not a typo.

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