Trivia games

A daily seven-question almanac quiz, from geography to astronomy, one leaf at a time.

Weigh two moments of history and name the elder. Build a chain as long as your memory of the past.

The weighing game: two things of the world, populations and peaks, rivers and planets and beasts, and you say which is more. One wrong answer breaks the chain.

The cartographer’s nightly leaf: a single land drawn in ink, and six guesses to name it. Every miss answers with the distance and a compass point toward the true land; after three, the old charts whisper the continent. The same leaf for everyone, every day.

The taproom quiz in the grand old style: six branches of knowledge, four souls at the table, and the first to seal the Chronicle, the Chart, the Physic, the Folio, the Green and the Bestiary takes the night. Three scholars with strong suits and weak ones sit against you.

The daily dozen: twelve assertions from the almanac, two from each branch of knowledge, and some of them handsome fabrications. Judge each in turn and learn at once why the false ones fooled you. The Sexton reads the same dozen every morning; out-read him and keep your streak.