What's the Book?

About What's the Book?

The daily game on What's the Book? is called Bookman, a hangman for book titles. Each numbered daily shows the title as rows of blanks under a drawing of a notebook, with a page count of six. You tap letters on the keyboard: a right one drops into every place it appears, and a wrong one costs a page.

If you are stuck you can pull a card. The Author card names who wrote the book and the Reveal All Vowels card fills in every vowel, and each one costs a page, so they are worth playing only when the title is still a blank to you. Solve it with pages to spare and the book joins your shelf; past books are kept in an archive.

Beside Bookman there is a Speed Run, two minutes once a day, where you fill in the missing word as many times as you can. The daily book is the same for everyone and changes at midnight India time. The game comes from the makers of What's the Game?, which runs other small daily games.

It suits readers who like hangman and want a quick daily test of how many titles they know.

How to play What's the Book?

1. Open Bookman from the home page to see the day's title as blanks.
2. Tap a letter on the keyboard; a right letter fills in everywhere it appears.
3. Every wrong letter costs one of your six pages.
4. Pull the Author or Reveal All Vowels card if you are stuck, for a page each.
5. Fill in the whole title before your pages run out.

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Tips

• Start with common consonants such as T, S, R and N before spending pages on vowels.
• Look for short words like THE, OF and AND, which show up in many titles.
• Save the Author card for when you have the shape of the title but cannot place it.
• The Reveal All Vowels card costs one page but can save several wrong vowel guesses.

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