selcouth

adj. strange, unusual, rare; unfamiliar; wondrous.

A word game made from literature itself.

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A Selcouth puzzle: a passage from Moby Dick with three words hidden, and a bank of words — monomaniac among them — to restore below.
the game
The same passage solved: every word restored earns rarity, the hunt word monomaniac is found for a bounty, and a new rank — omnilegent — is reached.
the reward
A commonplace book: kept words like effulgence, tenebrous, and pellucid, and kept passages from To the Lighthouse, Jane Eyre, and The Great Gatsby, each filed under themes.
your commonplace
The library: shelves of book collections, starting from a free library of thirty classics.
the library

Every puzzle is a real passage — Melville, Woolf, Austen, Dostoevsky — with its finest words hidden. Your task is to restore them, from nothing but the sense of the sentence.

The words and passages you love are yours to keep, gathered with their definitions in a commonplace book of your own. And the library grows: shelves of the world's great books, prepared with care, waiting to be wandered word by word.