Seven cards. One hidden rule.
About The Catalogues Game
An independent list-ordering puzzle built from sourced fact lists, with free daily play and unlimited practice.
Seven cards and one rule
The Catalogues Game is a free, single-player ordering puzzle at thecataloguesgame.com. Each puzzle shows seven cards and a title. A hidden rule, such as year, size, or position in a sequence, decides the order. You have five guesses to find it.
Puzzles are generated from our own fact lists: 61 lists of stable public facts, each stored with the source we took it from and the exact value every card is sorted by. Daily puzzles use their UTC date. Library puzzles use fixed numbers. The generator rejects any draw in which two cards tie or are too close to call, and we leave out figures that change from year to year.
Independent by design
This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The New Yorker or Condé Nast. Those names belong to their respective owners. We do not reproduce their puzzles, artwork, or source code.
Daily Casual Games and PuzzleSnack link to this and other short browser games. You can play anonymously; an optional account adds daily cloud saves and the leaderboard. If you believe a fact on a card is wrong, the source line shown after each puzzle tells you where our value came from.