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Etymologic!

aka: Where's THAT From?
Moby ID: 37029

Description

Billing itself as "the _toughest_ word game on the web", this quiz provides a player with ten English word-origin questions, each offering four semi-plausible radio-button answers to be clicked upon, only one of which is correct. If a wrong answer is selected, the correct one is indicated, and after ten questions have been asked the player's final score is tallied and, in a striking referral-revenue model, the player is invited to take the developers up on the purchase of a recommended etymology book through Amazon.com -- a sharp contrast to the suspiciously gushing altruism of the similar FreeRice game. The administrators also take submissions of further etymological questions to trip up future players.

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Development

The game started as a re-use of the engine of their earlier computer trivia game Trivial Net.

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  • MobyGames ID: 37029
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Game added by Pseudo_Intellectual.

Additional contributors: Patrick Bregger.

Game added October 23, 2008. Last modified February 22, 2023.