riffle

Going to the shelf…

Books from Open Library, Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. Meanings from Wordset (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How to play

Somewhere on the shelf is your word of the day. The books are real ones, from Open Library, and you find the word by stopping, five times.

  1. Riffle the books. They flick past; press Stop and the one showing is yours for the day. You won't get a book you've had before.
  2. Then its pages, a paragraph on that page, a sentence in it, and a word. Each stops the moment you press.
  3. Only words worth having count: never "and", "the", "of" and the like, nor names. The words stay hidden until you've stopped on one, so you're stopping blind.
  4. One go a day: the word you land on is yours. Everyone gets their own book and their own word.

Space or Enter stops too.