A Game of Classical Antiquity

ANTIQUIDLE

Wordle-style daily puzzles drawn from antiquity. Guess rulers, battles, portraits, and quotes — from Romulus and Marathon to the Buddha and Red Cliffs. Tap any world below to start today's puzzle.

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753 BC — AD 476
THE ROMAN WORLD

From the founding Kings through the Republic to the last Western emperor. Guess rulers, unravel silhouette riddles, name battles from Allia to Cape Bon, and attribute famous imperial quotes.

9th — 1st Century BC
ANCIENT GREECE

From Lycurgus to Cleopatra. Guess statesmen, lawgivers, tyrants, kings, and strategoi of Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Syracuse, Macedon, and the Hellenistic East — and the gods of Olympus themselves.

17th C. BC — AD 383
ANCIENT CHINA

From Tang of Shang to Fei River. Guess kings, hegemons, sages, emperors, and warlords across the Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, and Three Kingdoms — and meet the gods of the Yellow River.

15th C. BC — AD 500
ANCIENT INDIA

From Manu and the Ten Kings to Skandagupta's Hunas. Guess Vedic kings, Magadhan emperors, Mauryan world-conquerors, Gupta golden-age scholars — and the gods of the Trimurti.

31st C. BC — 30 BC
ANCIENT EGYPT

From Narmer's unification to Cleopatra's asp. Guess pharaohs of the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms, the Kushite black pharaohs, the Saite renaissance, and the Ptolemies — and the gods of the Nile.

Beyond the Five
AROUND THE WORLD

The figures the great five empires fought: Hannibal of Carthage, Cyrus of Persia, Hammurabi of Babylon, Vercingetorix of Gaul, Attila of the Huns. Plus an Ancient Wars pool drawn from all five main civilizations.

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