selcouth

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

A word game made from literature itself.

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for iPhone · iOS 17+

A Selcouth puzzle: a passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with two words hidden, and a bank of words to restore below.
the game
A commonplace book: kept words like sepulchral, gossamer, and halcyon, and kept passages from Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and To the Lighthouse.
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.