Category
Sort every item into the category it belongs to — eight items into two, three or four named buckets.
What makes it hard
With only a few buckets, a guess is worth something. With four, and items that could plausibly sit in two of them, it is not.
Timing and scoring
| Timer | 200 seconds |
|---|---|
| Scoring | Partial credit |
What the clues give you
Each bucket carries a description of what belongs in it, and individual items carry background of their own.
An example
Where it comes from
Humanities and Thought › History › Ancient Worlds — Beginner (1/5)
Sort each ancient civilization by continent:
The categories
- Africa
- Europe
- Asia
The items
- Ancient China
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Babylon
- Carthage
- Persia
- the Sahara
This is a real question from the library, shown exactly as a player first meets it. The answer is deliberately not given.